- Source: Kidwelly Priory
Kidwelly Priory was a Benedictine abbey in Kidwelly, Wales (in Welsh, Cydweli).
Roger, bishop of Salisbury (d.1139), a Norman invader founded the priory of Kidwelly, but it seems to have been a place of Celtic Christian veneration of Saint Cadog for some centuries prior to that.
It was a daughter abbey of Sherborne Abbey, and although well documented in the historical record it appears to have remained small for its extent. It was dissolved 1539, by Henry VIII.
Today the abbey remains a parish church, St Mary's with much of the surviving fabric dates to the fourteenth century, c. 1320.
Priors of Kidwelly
Priors of Kidwelly Medieval
1240 Abraham
1268 Gervase
1284 Ralph de Bemenster
1301 Galfridus de Coker
1346 Robert Dunster
1361 John Flode
1399 Philip Morevyle
1404 John de Kidwelly
1428 Robert Fyfhede
1438 John Cauntville
1482 John Sherborne
1487 John Henstrige
1520 John Whitchurche
1534 John Godmyston
1539 John Painter
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kidwelly Priory
- List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England
- Kidwelly (disambiguation)
- List of monastic houses in Wales
- St Mary's Church, Kidwelly
- Sherborne Abbey
- Maurice de Londres
- Tynemouth Priory and Castle
- St Neots Priory
- 16th century in Wales
