Cormeilles Abbey

Cormeilles Abbey (French: Abbaye Notre-Dame de Cormeilles) was a Benedictine monastery in Cormeilles, Normandy, in what is now the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles, Eure, France. The buildings are now almost completely destroyed.

Foundation[edit]

William FitzOsbern and Adeliza de Tosny founded the abbey^[1] in around the year 1060, and endowed it richly with lands in England, after the Norman Conquest. He was buried there in 1071.^[2] According to Ordericus Vitalis it was one of two religious foundations he established on his estates.^[3] The other was the Abbaye Notre-Dame de Lyre.

Later history[edit]

The abbey had fallen into disrepair by the fifteenth century. After a series of partial reconstructions, it was suppressed in 1779.^[4]

The buildings are now almost completely destroyed, apart from the former abbot's house, the precinct wall and a dovecote.^[4] A fragment of vaulting, possibly from a passageway in the cloister, survives in Chepstow Priory Church, displayed on the stump of its crossing tower.

Priories[edit]

Chepstow Priory was dependent on Cormeilles, Chepstow having been one of FitzOsbern's grants.^[5]^[6]^[7] Newent Priory, at Newent in Gloucestershire, was a cell of Cormeilles,^[8] as was another priory at Kyre, Worcestershire.

The place name Place de Cormeilles in the historic centre of Chepstow commemorates the association of the two places.

References[edit]

^ Lewis, C. P. (2004). "William fitz Osbern, earl". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9620. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Osbern". Dsnell.zynet.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 October 2007. Retrieved 12 May 2019.
^ The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis (1980, OUP), p. 283, ISBN 978-0198222439
^ ^a ^b Base Mérimée: Abbaye de Bénédictins Notre-Dame, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
^ Janet E. Burton, Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300 (1994), p. 34. ISBN 978-0521377973
^ "St. Mary's Church". Archived from the original on 2008-09-24. Retrieved 2008-02-12.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2019-05-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ "Alien houses: The priory of Newent". British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2019.

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[1] Lewis, C. P. (2004). "William fitz Osbern, earl". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9620. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[2] "Osbern". Dsnell.zynet.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 October 2007. Retrieved 12 May 2019.

[3] The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis (1980, OUP), p. 283, ISBN 978-0198222439

[merimee-4] Base Mérimée: Abbaye de Bénédictins Notre-Dame, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)

[5] Janet E. Burton, Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300 (1994), p. 34. ISBN 978-0521377973

[6] "St. Mary's Church". Archived from the original on 2008-09-24. Retrieved 2008-02-12.

[7] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2019-05-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[8] "Alien houses: The priory of Newent". British-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2019.

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