English chronicler and Cistercian monk (c.1270–c.1339)
William de Shepesheved (
c. 1270–
c. 1339) was an English chronicler and Cistercian monk.[1]
Life
William de Shepesheved presumably took his name from
Shepshed in Leicestershire.[1] 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.[2] These are extant in manuscript.[3][4][1]
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.