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ST WULFRAM'S EVENTS
1175 Narrow aisles added to the nave (circa1175)
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

GRANTHAM EVENTS

1175 Great North Road comes through Grantham. Prosperity from wool trade More info
1200 8 "vinitores" fined for selling wine in false amounts
1200 Knights Templar owned the Angel Inn More info

EVENTS BEYOND GRANTHAM

1154 -1189 Henry II - the first Plantagenet king
1164 Constitution of Clarendon curbing power of the church. Clerics to be subject to”normal” law.
1168 Oxford University founded
1170 Thomas a Becket murdered
1189 -1199 Richard I (Coeur de Lion)
1190 Richard led the third Crusade
1199 -1216 King John

MONARCHS ON THRONE

Henry II Crowned 1154 Died 1189 1170 Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, killed Plantagenet
Richard I Crowned 1189 Died 1199 1192 Richard captured while on crusade Plantagenet
John Crowned 1199 Died 1216 1215 Signing of Magna Carta Plantagenet