William de Shepesheved (–) was an English chronicler and Cistercian monk.Summerson 2021.
Life
William de Shepesheved presumably took his name from Shepshed in Leicestershire. 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.Bateson 1897, p. 51. These are extant in manuscript.BL, Cotton MS. Faustina B. vi., fols. 69–94.Bodleian Library, Dodsworth MS. 78.
See also
Croxden Abbey
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Further reading
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. .