Coggeshall Abbey [SEP] religious order
Coggeshall Abbey
Coggeshall Abbey, situated south of the town of Coggeshall in Essex, was founded in 1140 by King Stephen of England and Matilda of Boulogne, as a Savigniac house but became Cistercian in 1147 upon the absorption of the order. 
History.
In 1216 an incident was recorded that "King John's army violently entered the abbey and carried off twenty-two horses of the bishop of London and others." It is also known that the reigning abbot in 1260 was travelling abroad as the envoy of the
Hertfordshire
- 1390 Geoffrey Michale
- 1391 Sir William Coggleshall of Codham Hall and Coggeshall, Essex (1st term)
- 1392 Adam Frances
- 1393 Thomas Coggeshall
- 1394 Thomas Sampkin
- 1395-97 William Bateman
- 1398 Sir Robert Turk of Hitchin, Hertfordshire
List of sheriffs Henry IV.
- 1399 (Aug–Sep) John Doreward of Bocking, Essex
- 1399 (Sep-Nov) Robert Tey of Marks Tey, Essex
- 1399 Edward Benstede of Bennington, Hertfordshire