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Updated: May 21, 2025

Barbe, and Grissel his wife, whose family owned the estate of Broadlands, near Romsey, which was afterwards bought by the great-grandfather of the well-known statesman, Lord Palmerston. Several coffin lids of various dates have been found, among them, that of the Abbess, Joan Icthe, who died in 1349, of the terrible scourge that visited England in the fourteenth century, known as the Black Death.

Rev. Thomas Perkins - Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey : A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of SS. Mary & Ethelfleda

Romsey, like many other religious houses, suffered severely at the time of the Black Death. The number and names of the ninety-one nuns voting in 1333 at the election of Johanna Icthe has come down to us.

Rev. Thomas Perkins - Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey : A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of SS. Mary & Ethelfleda