Cecilia of Clare

Overview

Title social-status

nun of Barking

Date of Birth

12th century

Biography

Cecilia and Margaret were daughters of Osbert of Clare’s sister and both were nuns in the abbey of Barking. Osbert was a monk and prior of Westminster, who claimed connections with nobility, but the details of his family are not known. He mentions his neices in a letter to the abbess of Barking, Adelidis, ep.42 (Epistolae 1207.html).

Letters to Cecilia of Clare

A letter from Osbert of Clare (1140)