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1200 Knights Templar owned the Angel Inn

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ST WULFRAM'S EVENTS
1200 Vicars with life-long tenancy established
1200 Rebuilding included expansion and a south aisle to accommodate guild chapels .
1200 Major developments through the period were funded by wealthy wool merchants who endowed the chantries and guild chapels
1200 start of long programme of renovation and re-building
1222 February 8th thunder storm with a lightning strike caused extensive fire.
1223 -1231 Bononius, chaplain - vicar of North Grantham
1225 -1234 Richard of Newerc, chaplain (priest) - Vicar of South Grantham
1231 John of Colsterworth - vicar of North Grantham
1234 -1245 William of Ferenden, chaplain - Vicar of South Grantham
1245 -1263 Thomas of ?, chaplain - Vicar of South Grantham
1250 Wider aisles replace earlier narrow ones; this involved replacing the Norman round-headed arches with higher, pointed arches (remains of round-headed clerestory windows still visible above pointed arches) More info

GRANTHAM EVENTS

1200 8 "vinitores" fined for selling wine in false amounts
1200 Knights Templar owned the Angel Inn More info
1203 King John stayed at the Angel Inn (1203, 1209 & 1213)
1205 King John bestowed the town on Earl de Warenne, who also owned Stamford
1218 Rich woolman, John de Ferrour grazed animals in the Earl's Fields and owned 4 shops in Grantham

EVENTS BEYOND GRANTHAM

1209 Pope excommunicates John
1215 Magna Carta drawn up by Barons and the Archbishop of Canterbury to limit the King’s power
1216 -1272 Henry III king - he supported learning, the arts and architecture.
1216 John dies at Newark Castle
1233 Barons revolt against the King

MONARCHS ON THRONE

Henry III Crowned 1216 Died 1272 1258 First English Parliament Plantagenet