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Huntingdon Priory

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99:. It seems to have suffered a moral decline in the 15th century: the 1420 episcopal visitation found too many laundresses wandering where they shouldn't; the 1435 visitation admonished the canons for pawning their jewels and keeping hunting dogs. It also prohibited canons from visiting the house of one John Clerk, whose wife was of questionable morality. In 1440, there was no question about her morality: she was having an affair with the prior (along with 8 other women). The buildings were in disrepair and more goods had been pawned. Successive priors, especially Thomas Herford (d.1518), made improvements, but the Priory had declined to poverty by 1532. The 12 canons were devout enough to pay a massive fine to stop it being suppressed in 1536 (being a monastery under £200), but this, in the end, only gave them two years extra in the house. In 1538, the eight remaining canons were pensioned off and the monastery destroyed. 68:’s mother was sitting looking out at the priory; a dove flew from it and landed on her sleeve - and so she knew her daughter to be blessed. Christina was taught by Sueno, a canon of Huntingdon. In 1114, Robert, the subprior, left Huntingdon to help Gilbert, sheriff of Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire and Surrey, found 87:
and a benefactor of Huntingdon Priory. William de Lovetot's son Richard was also a benefactor; his sons (William and Nigel) died without issue; his daughters (Amice, Rose and Margery) married local aristocrats, and through the eldest, Amice, the Priory became associated with the
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The Priory had about 16 canons, and held a good number of lands and churches; its wealth was partly spent on hospitality. During the 14th century, it suffered both economically and from the
64:, suggesting a family attraction to the Augustinians. The canons regular (not necessarily by this time formally Augustinian) were occupying the church by the 1090s. In or around 1098, 56:
of Huntingdon - apparently in compensation for his rapacity as sheriff. (Since there was a similar story about Picot, sheriff of Cambridgeshire, and his foundation of St Giles, later
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suggests that it was a re-foundation of an Anglo-Saxon canonry; this is a credible idea, as several other Austin priories were (e.g.
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was one of the drivers behind the Augustinian movement in England and Wales. Her brother
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Henry I confirmed the priory's lands and gifts; his wife,
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Some aspects of the history of Barnwell Priory 1092-1300
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Former Augustinian Priory in Huntingdon, United Kingdom
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Index

Augustinian
Priory
Huntingdonshire
Cambridgeshire
England
Dugdale
Taunton Priory
sheriff
Barnwell Priory
Worksop Priory
Christina of Markyate
Merton Priory
Matilda of Scotland
David I of Scotland
earl of Huntingdon
de Mandeville
Black Death
Monasticon Anglicanum, vol.6
Some aspects of the history of Barnwell Priory 1092-1300
"Victoria County History: Notts, vol.2"
A Priory Founded: Sheriff Gilbert at Merton
"Victoria County History: Huntingdonshire, vol.1"
"Victoria County History: Huntingdonshire, vol.1"
52°19′59″N 0°10′59″W / 52.333°N 0.183°W / 52.333; -0.183
Categories
Monasteries in Cambridgeshire
1086 establishments in England
Huntingdon
1538 disestablishments in England

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