#Serlo# (1072-1103), the next Abbot, had been the Conqueror's chaplain, and was a man of great strength of character, and of quite a different stamp. He was buried in the abbey church, which he had raised "from meanness and insignificance to a glorious pitch."
#Peter#, who had been Prior, was Abbot from 1104-1113.
#William Godemon#, #Godeman#, or #Godemore#, was Abbot from 1113-1130, when he retired.
#Walter de Lacy# was appointed by Godeman and was consecrated in 1131. In his time, Robert, Duke of Normandy, surnamed Curthose, died at Cardiff after twenty-five years' imprisonment, and was buried in the choir. Walter de Lacy died in 1139, and was succeeded by
#Gilbert Foliot# (1139-1148), a Cluniac monk, who, owing his position to his relative Milo, Earl of Hereford, was consecrated in 1139. He was made Bishop of Hereford in 1148, and was translated thence to London. Though he owed much to Becket, his patron and tutor, he is said to have taken the king's side in the quarrels with Becket, and to have been instrumental in the latter's assassination.
#Henry Blond# (or #Blunt#) (1205-1224). Henry III. was crowned in the Abbey in 1216.
#Thomas de Bredon# (or #Bredone#) (1224-1228).
#Henry Foliot# (or #Foleth#) was Abbot from 1228-1243.
#Walter de St. John# died before his installation.
#Reginald de Hamme# (or #Homme#) (1263-1283).
#John Wygmore# (or #Wygemore#) (1329-1337).
The succession of Abbots, and the dates of various works executed since Serlo's time, are taken entirely from the particulars in the Chronicles "attributed" to Abbot Froucester (1381-1412), who wrote of the Abbey and of twenty Abbots after the Conquest. These Chronicles are the sole foundation up to that date on which all the histories have been made. There are three copies of them, one in the British Museum, one in Queen's College, Oxford, and one in the Chapter Library, which latter was lost for many years, and ultimately heard of again in 1878 as being in the possession of a book-seller at Berlin, from whom it was rescued on a payment of £150 by the Dean and Chapter.
#John Morwent# (or #Marewent#) (1421-1437).
#Reginald Boulers# (#Boulars# or #Butler#) (#Boteler#) (1437-1450). He became Bishop of Hereford and was translated to Lichfield in 1453.