During the rout from Winchester, Empress Matilda sought refuge at Wherwell Abbey. Queen Matilda's forces under William of Ypres surrounded and set fire to the abbey to flush out defenders. A detachment holding the nunnery was overcome, and the prioress was blinded in the burning. A noted atrocity of the civil war.
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