Breamore Priory
Breamore Priory was a priory of the Augustinian Canons in Breamore , Hampshire . Her full name is "The Priory Church of the Holy Trinity, Saint Mary and Saint Michael, Breamore".
The priory was founded towards the end of the reign of King Henry I by Baldwin de Redvers , later the Earl of Devon , and his uncle Hugh de Redvers.
In the 13th century Breamore Priory became the preferred necropolis of the last Earl of Devon from the house Redvers
- 1244/45 Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon
- 1262 Baldwin de Redvers, 7th Earl of Devon
- 1293 Isabel de Redvers, 8th Countess of Devon
Under the government of Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex , the priory was dissolved on July 10, 1536. In November 1536 the priory and its property were given to Henry Courtenay, 1st Marquess of Exeter, to his wife Gertrude. Breamore House was built here in 1583 . There are no visible remains of the priory.
literature
- A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2, The Victoria County History 1973
Footnotes
- ↑ George Edward Cokayne : The Complete Peerage Volume 4, pp. 309ff
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '15.1 " N , 1 ° 47' 3.1" W.