Thomas Walsingham - Life

Life

He was probably educated at St Albans Abbey at St Albans, Hertfordshire, and at Oxford.

He became a monk at St Albans, where he appears to have passed the whole of his monastic life, excepting a period from 1394 to 1396 during which he was prior of Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, England, another Benedictine house. At St Albans he was in charge of the scriptorium, or writing room, and he died about 1422.

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