Sporle Priory
Sporle Priory was a Benedictine priory in Norfolk, England. It was founded by Alan fitz Flaad in the early 12th century,[1] Benedictine and given to the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Florent, Saumur free-of-charge as an alien priory.[1] It was vacant for some time after the Black Death,[2] and was dissolved in 1424.[1]
Fitz Flaad gave to the monks of Saint-Florent the church at Sporle, its tithes, a man's landholding, a ploughland in Sporle and another in Mileham, firewood and building timber, and pasture for sheep.[3] Sporle was later endowed with property in Norfolk villages, including Great and Little Palgrave, where the priory had the church,[4] Great Dunham, Hunstanton and Holme-next-the-Sea.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Page, William (1906). History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2. London: Victoria County History.
- ^ "Heritage Gateway - Results". www.heritagegateway.org.uk. Retrieved 30 April 2022.
- ^ Alien houses: The priory of Sporle in Page, pp. 463-464
- ^ Round (1899), p. 402, no. 1126.
- ^ Eyton, Volume 7, p. 219
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