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Nicholas Breakspear who became Pope Adrian IV, the only English Pope, was born here. Breakspear was
born in the year 1100, at Bedmond Farm which is within the parish of Abbots Langley. It is presumed that
after the death of his wife, his father, Robert Breakspear, became a monk of St Albans Abbey and that at
about the age of 18 years old, Nicholass too applied to enter St Albans Abbey. He was refused admission
on the grounds that he had had too little schooling to qualify for entrance.
Undeterred by this refusal, Nicholas went abroad to study. He went briefly to St Denys in Paris, then to other
places and finally came to Avignon. Here in 1130 he became a monk in the Augustinian Abbey of St Rufus.
He was elected Abbot in 1137 and came to the notice of the Pope, Eugenius III. Recognising his qualities,
the Pope made him Bishop and Cardinal and sent him on a mission to war-torn Scandinavia. Nicholas restored
peace and order to the local churches and monasteries and set up two new archbishoprics. After four years,
now widely recognised as a man of integrity and strength, he returned to Rome to find that Eugenius III had
died and had been succeeded by Anastasius IV, a quiet, peaceful old man of ninety. Within the year
Anastasius too was dead, and in November 1154 Nicholas found himself unanimously elected Pope.
He took the name Adrian IV.
Abbots Langley village include a number of roads named after its famous son, and at one time included
activities of the Breakspear brewery.
The recent Katherine Place development has brought in some high class retailers to the centre and was
sold for £2.93 million in December 2005. To the south of the village are Leavesden Film Studios, on a
former airfield, where scenes from movies including Goldeneye, Sleepy Hollow and the Harry Potter series
have been filmed.
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located here in our hometown. So if you are looking for a product, service or a church, please visit our business listings to find the company or
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that offer information on real estate listings offered by both real estate agents/realtors and for sale by owner. These guides also offer information on modular homes manufacturers, defaulted properties, log home kits, houses for
rent, mortgages, apartments for rent, homes and houses for sale, land for sale, and mobile homes. Also provided is information pertaining to relocation services, such as moving companies and appraisal companies.
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Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire
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Hertfordshire
offer items such as used horse trailers, cars, trucks, motorcycles, outboard
motors, books, horses, dogs, real estate listings including homes, businesses, and
land, apartments for
rent, boats and many other items that are for sale by owner. If you are looking for these items or if you have
something to sell, please
stop by and take a look.We also have employment opportunities and ads from folks looking for jobs. Our
History, Trivia and Facts Pages
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Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire
history, English history, family history and the history of names.
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Hertfordshire
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