Cormeilles Abbey

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Cormeilles Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Cormeilles) was a Benedictine monastery in Normandy. Cormeilles is now in Eure; the abbey was in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles. The buildings are now completely destroyed.

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[edit] Foundation

William FitzOsbern was buried there in 1071[1], and according to Ordericus Vitalis it was one of two religious foundations he established on his estates[2] The foundation was around the year 1060, and FitzOsbern endowed it richly with lands in England, after the Norman Conquest.

[edit] Priories

Chepstow Priory was dependent on Cormeilles, Chepstow having been one of FitzOsbern's grants[3][4]. A cell from Cormeilles also created Newent Priory, at Newent in Gloucestershire.[5] Another priory was at Shirehampton.

[edit] Later history

The abbey had fallen into disrepair by the fifteenth century. After a series of partial reconstructions, it was suppressed in 1779.[6]

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Osbern
  2. ^ The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis (1980, OUP), p. 283; the other was St. Mary's Abbey, Lire.
  3. ^ Janet E. Burton, Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300 (1994), p. 34.
  4. ^ http://www.striguil.co.uk/chepstow/st__mary's_church.htm, http://www.visionwebsites.co.uk/Contents/Text/Index.asp?SiteId=137&SiteExtra=14722766&TopNavId=287&NavSideId=1489
  5. ^ Alien houses - The priory of Newent | British History Online
  6. ^ http://www.patrimoine-de-france.org/oeuvres/richesses-41-12873-89379-M49747-219873.html, in French