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Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:04 pm

Nope, earlier.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:08 pm

Elizabeth I? can't think the abbey is much older than that although i'm probably wrong.

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:12 pm

The present building, possibly. But there's been something there since about 616.

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:21 pm

crivens, i didn't know that (i really should have done

ops: )

okay a norman then i'd imagine, don't think the viking lot went in for that.

how about king stephen?

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:26 pm

Getting closer.

And you're right, the Danes didn't. But the Saxons were back for a bit before the Normans, after Cnut, who has possibly the most unfortunate name to try and teach children history with, which I'm convinced is the real reason we call him Canute.

Saint Dunstan stuck a bunch of Benedictine monks on the site in the 10th century - which is what made it an abbey, more or less.

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:41 pm

Edward the Confessor rings a bell?

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 5:46 pm

He built it (in 1065), and is buried in it. But he wasn't crowned in it.

harry 3 · Post by **harry 3** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 10:13 pm

William I

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:04 pm

Nope.

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:14 am

Weyland wrote:He built it (in 1065), and is buried in it. But he wasn't crowned in it.

So someone shortly after him then - Harold?

Weyland · Post by **Weyland** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:22 am

Yep, it was Harold II in 1066. William I followed him later in the year, at the expense of Edgar Ætheling, who was proclaimed king by the Witenagemot as a last act of defiance to the Norman invaders, but was never crowned.

Since then, all English monarchs except Lady Jane Grey, Edward V and Edward VIII (who didn't have coronations) and Henry III (because Prince Louis of France was occupying London at the time) have been crowned in the building on the site.

Over to you, Northern Monkey...

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:42 am

OK then, annual office quiz night tonight so need to get the brain in gear:

Which is the world's highest capital city?

Flying Spaghetti Monster · Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:45 am

La Paz, Bolivia

Northern Monkey · Post by **Northern Monkey** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:58 am

Often taken to be the right answer but on this occassion I am going to have to sound the QI klaxon as technically La Paz is not the official capital of Bolivia.

Harsh I know.

Flying Spaghetti Monster · Thu Jun 07, 2007 11:09 am

Well Sucre then (never sure which is the real capital, one is judicial and the other is administrative)