Carisbrooke Priory
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Carisbrooke Priory was an alien priory, a dependency of Lyre Abbey in Normandy. The priory was situated on rising ground on the outskirts of Carisbrooke close to Newport on the Isle of Wight. This priory was dissolved in around 1415.
A second Carisbrooke Priory was created in 1993, when St. Dominic's Priory, which had been established as a community of Dominican nuns in 1865–66 (on a different site from the earlier priory) was so renamed.
History
Benedictine monks
In 1046,
Around 1100,
In 1295, when King
Dominican nuns
Elizabeth Burrell, daughter of Peter Burrell, 1st Lord Gwydwyr, and Lady Priscilla Bertie, suo jure Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, was married to John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare, Lord Lieutenant of the City of Limerick. They lived apart, Lady Clare taking up residence at Ryde on the Isle of Wight. In 1865 she invited the nuns of the Dominican Order at Stonyhurst to move to the Isle of Wight. She provided £12,000 towards the cost of a new priory, St. Dominic's Priory, at Carisbrooke on a different site to the pre-Reformation priory.[4]
In the mid-17th century, Philip Howard, a Dominican friar and son of Henry Howard, 15th Earl of Arundel, founded a convent of nuns of the Second Order of Saint Dominic at Vilvoorde in Flanders. This community later relocated to Carisbrooke.[5]
In April 1993, the recently formed Carisbrooke Priory Trust purchased the freehold of the then St Dominic's Priory, Carisbrooke on the Isle of Wight, the home of the Catholic Community of nuns since the house was built on the Victorian site in 1866.
References
- ^ S.F. Hockley, William FitzOsbern and the Endowment of his Abbey of Lyre, in R. Allen Brown (ed.), Proceedings of the Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman Studies III, Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1981, pp. 96-105.
- ^ a b "Alien houses: Carisbrooke priory." A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2. Eds. H Arthur Doubleday, and William Page. London: Victoria County History, 1903. 230-231. British History Online. Web. 5 February 2020 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ISBN 978-0-901853-37-0
- ^ Clarke, Peter. "St. Dominic's Priory", Isle of Wight Catholic Historical Society
- ^ Lescher, Wilfrid. "Philip Thomas Howard." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 4 February 2020 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.