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Swineshead Abbey
This Cistercian abbey was founded in Lincolnshire by Robert de Greslei. In 1216 King John visited the abbey after losing his baggage train in the Wash Estuary when the tide turned and swept it away. That night the King feasted on fruit and cider and fell ill. Some say that the King was poisoned by a monk from the Abbey. King John was transported to Newark Castle where he died a few days later. Nothing now remains of the abbey.
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| 1216 | Oct | Death of King John
| | | King John died at Newark from excessive eating and drinking. Protestant historians of the 16th century wrote that he was poisoned by a monk at Swineshead in Lincolnshire. The monk received orders from the Pope to kill King John and took a small amount of poisoned wine himself to reassure the King and also died. But had King John become the Pope's ally before his death? |
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