Geoffrey de Gorham

[1] According to the Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani ("The Deeds of the Abbots of the Monastery of St Alban"), Geoffrey staged a miracle play on St. Katherine.

Although he spent large sums on a new shrine of St Alban, he did not hesitate during a year of famine to remove the silver plates and use them to relieve the poor.

[3] During the wars of King Stephen's reign, he melted down other silver and gave it to William of Ypres,[4] and the Earl of Arundel, as ransom for the town of St. Albans, which they threatened to burn.

[5] Markyate Priory, in Hertfordshire, was founded in 1145, in a wood which was then part of the parish of Caddington, and belonged to the Dean and Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral, London.

It has been suggested by Janet Geddes and other scholars that Geoffrey's esteem for the prioress was such that he had a psalter made as a gift for her; and in celebration of their friendship had an illuminated "C" placed at the beginning of Psalm 105.