Ripon as the Liberty of Ripon and it was during this time that a grand Collegiate Church was built on top of the ruins of Wilfrid's building. Eventually developed in the Gothic style, the project owed much to the work of Roger de Pont L'Evêque and Walter de Gray, two Archbishops of York during the Plantagenet era. During the 12th century Ripon built up a booming wool trade, attracting Italian trade merchants, especially Florentines, who bought and exported large quantities. Ripon's proximity to Fountains Abbey, where the Cistercians had a long tradition of sheep farming and owned much grazing land, was
Askeby Abbey Vreta Abbey and the Askeby Abbey was thereby dissolved. The buildings burnt down eight years later. The remains of the abbey are gone, but the church, Askeby kyrka, still remains as the Askeby parish church, where a memorial stone is erected to the memory of Askeby Abbey. The abbesses are only partially known. Askeby Abbey Askeby Abbey (Swedish: Askeby kloster), was a Cistercian nunnery in Sweden, in operation from the late 12th century until 1529. It was located in Askeby outside Linköping. Askeby Abbey was founded as a daughter convent of the Vreta Abbey during the second half of the