5 examples of thurstan in sentences
The Archbishop of York, Thurstan, an aged but vigorous man, collected a large army to resist the invaders; and he made a politic appeal to the old English nationality, by calling out the population under the banners of their Saxon saints.
Henry I resists the papal claim to investiture in England; banishment of Thurstan, Archbishop of Canterbury. 1120.
Only the chapter-house and vestry remain of Archbishop Thurstan's Norman church, erected in the place of the Anglo-Saxon one, for Roger, Archbishop of York, pulled it down and began to erect the present building in (circa) 1154.
Abbots Thurstan (A.D. 1082) and Herlewinus (1101-20) both projected buildings of some pretensions, but Henry of Blois, brother of King Stephen, abbot in 1126, was the first great builder.
W.M. Thomas à Becket Thurstan, Abbot Toplady, A.M. Trevelyan, John Turberville, Bp. V Vernais, De Verney, Sir J. Verney, Sir R. Villula, Bp.