William de Shepesheved

William de Shepesheved (c. 1270–c. 1339) was an English chronicler and Cistercian monk.

Life

A Cistercian monk

William de Shepesheved presumably took his name from Shepshed in Leicestershire. He was a monk of the Cistercian house of Crokesden, Staffordshire. He wrote a list of the names of the monks of the house and chronicles of English history from 1066 down to 1320. These are extant in manuscript.

See also

• Croxden Abbey

Sources

• Summerson, Henry (2021). "Shepesheved, William (c. 1270–c. 1339)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/25327. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bateson, Mary (1897). "Shepesheved, William de". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 52. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 51.

Further reading

• Greenslade, M. W.; Pugh, R. B., eds. (1970). "9. The Abbey of Croxden". A History of the County of Stafford. Vol. 3. London: A. Constable. p. 230.
• Lynam, Charles (1911). The Abbey of St. Mary, Croxden, Staffordshire. A Monograph. London: Sprague & Co.
• Morgan, Philip (2016). "Historical Writing in the North-West Midlands and the Chester Annals of 1385–88". In Bothwell, James; Dodd, Gwilym (eds.). Fourteenth Century England IX. Boydell & Brewer. Cambridge University Press. pp. 109–129. doi:10.1017/9781782047704.007.