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Coombe Abbey, the Glossary

Coombe Abbey (alternatively styled as 'Combe Abbey') is a hotel which has been developed from a historic grade I listed building and former country house, itself converted out of a Cistercian abbey.^[1]

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Country houses in Warwickshire
Craven family
Defunct real tennis venues
Grade I listed buildings in Warwickshire
Hotels in Warwickshire
Monasteries in Warwickshire

Anne Sutton

Anne Sutton (1589–1615) was an English lady-in-waiting who was a companion of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia.

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Anthony van Dyck

Sir Anthony van Dyck (i; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy.

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Borough of Rugby

The Borough of Rugby is a local government district with borough status in Warwickshire, England.

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Brinklow

Brinklow is a village and civil parish in the Rugby district of Warwickshire, England.

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Capability Brown

Lancelot "Capability" Brown (born c. 1715–16, baptised 30 August 1716 – 6 February 1783) was an English gardener and landscape architect, who remains the most famous figure in the history of the English landscape garden style.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Cistercians

The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.

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Cloister

A cloister (from Latin, "enclosure") is a covered walk, open gallery, or open arcade running along the walls of buildings and forming a quadrangle or garth.

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Combe Fields

Combe Fields is a civil parish in the Rugby district, in the county of Warwickshire, England.

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Coombe Country Park

Coombe Country Park is a country park located in Warwickshire, England.

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Country park

A country park is a natural area designated for people to visit and enjoy recreation in a countryside environment.

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Coventry

Coventry is a cathedral city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands county, in England, on the River Sherbourne.

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Coventry City Council

Coventry City Council is the local authority for the city of Coventry in the West Midlands, England.

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Dependency (religion)

A dependency, among monastic orders, denotes the relation of a monastic community with a newer community which it has founded elsewhere.

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Dissolution of the monasteries

The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets; and provided for their former personnel and functions.

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Earl of Warwick

Earl of Warwick is one of the most prestigious titles in the peerages of the United Kingdom.

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Edward IV

Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until his death in 1483.

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Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia

Elizabeth Stuart (19 August 159613 February 1662) was Electress of the Palatinate and briefly Queen of Bohemia as the wife of Frederick V of the Palatinate.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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English country house

An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.

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Frederick V of the Palatinate

Frederick V (Friedrich; 26 August 1596 – 29 November 1632) was the Elector Palatine of the Rhine in the Holy Roman Empire from 1610 to 1623, and reigned as King of Bohemia from 1619 to 1620.

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Gerard van Honthorst

Gerard van Honthorst (Dutch: Gerrit van Honthorst; 4 November 1592 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, eventually receiving the nickname Gherardo delle Notti ("Gerard of the Nights").

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Gunpowder Plot

The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James I by a group of English Catholics led by Robert Catesby who considered their actions attempted tyrannicide and who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.

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Henry Holland (architect)

Henry Holland (20 July 1745 – 17 June 1806) was an architect to the English nobility.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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James VI and I

James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until his death in 1625.

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Jan Kip

Johannes "Jan" Kip (1652/53 in Amsterdam – 1722 in Westminster) was a Dutch draftsman, engraver and print dealer.

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John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton

John Harington, 1st Baron Harington (1539/40 – 23 August 1613) of Exton in Rutland, was an English courtier and politician.

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Leicester

Leicester is a city, unitary authority area, unparished area and the county town of Leicestershire in the East Midlands of England.

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Listed building

In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural and/or historic interest deserving of special protection.

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Martin Freeman

Martin John Christopher Freeman (born 8 September 1971) is an English actor.

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Mary, mother of Jesus

Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus.

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Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, among other names,The day is also known as Great and Holy Thursday, Holy and Great Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Sheer Thursday, and Thursday of Mysteries.

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Nativity!

Nativity! is a 2009 British Christmas musical comedy film directed by Debbie Isitt and released on 27 November 2009 and the first instalment in the ''Nativity'' film series.

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Palace of Versailles

The Palace of Versailles (château de Versailles) is a former royal residence commissioned by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France.

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Peter Paul Rubens

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish artist and diplomat.

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Robert the Bruce

Robert I (11 July 1274 – 7 June 1329), popularly known as Robert the Bruce (Raibeart am Brusach), was King of Scots from 1306 to his death in 1329.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Thomas Holcroft (politician)

Sir Thomas Holcroft (1505 – 31 July 1558) was a sixteenth-century English courtier, soldier, politician and landowner.

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Wars of the Roses

The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of civil wars fought over control of the English throne from 1455 to 1487.

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Warwickshire

Warwickshire (abbreviated Warks) is a ceremonial county in the West Midlands of England.

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Waverley Abbey

Waverley Abbey was the first Cistercian abbey in England, founded in 1128 by William Giffard, the Bishop of Winchester. Coombe Abbey and Waverley Abbey are Christian monasteries established in the 12th century and Cistercian monasteries in England.

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Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate

The wedding of Elizabeth Stuart (1596–1662), daughter of James VI and I, and Frederick V of the Palatinate (1596–1632) was celebrated in London in February 1613.

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William Craven (Lord Mayor of London)

Sir William Craven (1548 – 18 July 1618) was an English merchant who was Lord Mayor of London in 1610. Coombe Abbey and William Craven (Lord Mayor of London) are Craven family.

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William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven (1608–1697)

William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven, PC (June 1608 – 9 April 1697) was an English nobleman and soldier. Coombe Abbey and William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven (1608–1697) are Craven family.

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William Craven, 2nd Baron Craven

William Craven, 2nd Baron Craven (24 October 1668 – 9 October 1711) was an English nobleman. Coombe Abbey and William Craven, 2nd Baron Craven are Craven family.

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William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven

William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven DL (18 August 1809 – 25 August 1866), styled Viscount Uffington until 1825, was a British peer. Coombe Abbey and William Craven, 2nd Earl of Craven are Craven family.

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William Craven, 4th Earl of Craven

William George Robert Craven, 4th Earl of Craven OBE (16 December 1868 – 10 July 1921), styled Viscount Uffington from 1868 to 1883, was a British peer and Liberal politician. Coombe Abbey and William Craven, 4th Earl of Craven are Craven family.

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William Craven, 6th Baron Craven

William Craven, 6th Baron Craven (11 September 1738 – 26 September 1791) was an English nobleman and a landowner. Coombe Abbey and William Craven, 6th Baron Craven are Craven family.

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William Eden Nesfield

William Eden Nesfield (2 April 1835 – 25 March 1888) was an English architect.

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William Winde

Captain William Winde (c.1645–1722) was an English gentleman architect, whose military career under Charles II, resulting in fortifications and topographical surveys but lack of preferment, and his later career, following the Glorious Revolution, as designer or simply "conductor" of the works of country houses, has been epitomised by Howard Colvin, who said that "Winde ranks with Hooke, May, Pratt and Talman as one of the principal English country house architects of the late seventeenth century" (Colvin 1995, p 1066).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coombe_Abbey

Also known as Combe Abbey, John Tovey (royal tutor).

, William Winde.

Coombe Abbey, the Glossary

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See also

Country houses in Warwickshire

Craven family

Defunct real tennis venues

Grade I listed buildings in Warwickshire

Hotels in Warwickshire

Monasteries in Warwickshire

References