Horsley Priory
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Horsley Priory was a priory in Gloucestershire
, England
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Goda owned an estate at Horsley, in 1066.
It was granted to Troarn Abbey by Roger de Montgomery, before 1086.
The original grant was said to provide for a prior, a monk, and a parish chaplain to reside at Horsley. (fn. 72)
From those provisions emerged the cell called Horsley Priory.
Troarn Abbey exchanged the priory with Bruton Priory
for lands in Normandy in 1260.
The prior of Horsley ceased to exist before 1380.
Horsley manor was retained by Bruton Priory, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries
in 1539.
In 1541, Horsley was granted to Thomas Seymour
.
Gloucestershire
Gloucestershire is a county in South West England. The county comprises part of the Cotswold Hills, part of the flat fertile valley of the River Severn, and the entire Forest of Dean....
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
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Goda owned an estate at Horsley, in 1066.
It was granted to Troarn Abbey by Roger de Montgomery, before 1086.
The original grant was said to provide for a prior, a monk, and a parish chaplain to reside at Horsley. (fn. 72)
From those provisions emerged the cell called Horsley Priory.
Troarn Abbey exchanged the priory with Bruton Priory
Bruton Abbey
Bruton Abbey in Bruton, Somerset was originally founded as a Benedictine priory by Algar, Earl of Cornwall in about 1005. It was subsequently refounded as a house of Augustinian canons in 1135, by William de Mohun, who later became the Earl of Somerset. The village used the north aisle of the...
for lands in Normandy in 1260.
The prior of Horsley ceased to exist before 1380.
Horsley manor was retained by Bruton Priory, until the Dissolution of the Monasteries
Dissolution of the Monasteries
The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland; appropriated their...
in 1539.
In 1541, Horsley was granted to Thomas Seymour
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley
Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, KG was an English politician.Thomas spent his childhood in Wulfhall, outside Savernake Forest, in Wiltshire. Historian David Starkey describes Thomas thus: 'tall, well-built and with a dashing beard and auburn hair, he was irresistible to women'...
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Priors of Horsley
- Stephen, 1262, (fn. 28) occurs 1269
- Walter de Horwood, occurs 1271
- Richard de la Grave, 1292
- William, 1298
- William de Milverton, ob. 1329
- Laurence de Haustede, 1329
- Henry de Lisle, 1335 resigned 1357 (fn. 36)
- Richard de Holt, 1357 resigned 1363 (fn. 38)
- William Cary, 1363
External links
- http://www.horsleyparish.co.uk/About/History_General.asp