Hoxne Priory
Hoxne Priory was a
, England.It was founded as a religious house around the year 950, with a chapel at the supposed site of the martyrdom of Saint Edmund, king of East Anglia. The chapel was given in 1101 to Norwich Cathedral by Herbert de Losinga, and the priory became dependent on the cathedral. It was rebuilt by 1130 by Maurice of Windsor and his wife Edigia, being completed in 1226.[1]
At the time of the
References
- ^ a b Roy Midmer, English Medieval Monasteries 1066–1540 (1979) p. 171.
- ^ "Houses of Benedictine monks: Priory of Hoxne | British History Online".
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