Ilchester Nunnery

Ilchester Nunnery
Monastery information
Order	Augustinian
Established	1217–1220
Disestablished	1463
Site
Location	Ilchester, Somerset, England
Grid reference	ST520228

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Ilchester Nunnery shown within Somerset
(grid reference ST520228)

Ilchester Nunnery, in Ilchester, Somerset, England, was founded around 1217–1220 as the "White Hall Hospital of the Holy Trinity", (Latin: Alba Aula, French: Blanche Halle/Blanchesale) after the gift of a house and other property by William "The Dane" of Sock Dennis manor, Ilchester (Norman-French: Le Deneis etc., Latinised to Dacus (the adjectival form of Dacia being mediaeval Latin for Denmark) modernised to "Dennis").^[1] From this family was probably descended the influential Denys family of Devon, (arms; three Danish battle axes) seated at Orleigh in the 16th century.^[1]^[2] By 1281, it had been converted into an Augustinian nunnery.^[1]^[3]

In the early 14th century concerns were raised about the management of the nunnery and the poverty of the nuns.^[4] The building was expanded in 1370. By 1463 the nunnery had been dissolved and its chapel become a free chapel,^[5] which itself was dissolved in 1548.^[6]

A ruined building still existed in 1791 but the stone was then used to build the nearby Castle Farm.^[6]

Prioresses

Alice Atteyerde, 1315^[1]^[7]
Alice de Chilthorne, 1316^[1]^[8]
Cecilia de Draycote, 1325^[1]^[9]
Mary, 1370^[1]^[10]
Matilda, occurs 1377^[1]^[11]
Margaret, otherwise Marjory, 1377^[1]^[12]
Christina, 1423^[1]^[13]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Page, William (1911). "Hospitals: Ilchester and Langport'". A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2. British History Online. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
^ The Battle Abbey Roll by The Duchess of Cleveland, Vol.1, "Denise"
^ James Stevens-Cox, A History of Ilchester, the ancient county town of Somerset nos. 1-6, 8 & 9 (1958), p. 129
^ Power, Eileen (1988). Medieval English Nunneries, c. 1275 to 1535. Biblo & Tannen Booksellers & Publishers Incorporat. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-8196-0140-7.
^ "Chapel, Whitehall hospital and nunnery, High Street, Ilchester". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
^ ^a ^b "Augustinian nunnery, High Street, Ilchester". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Retrieved 9 January 2010.
^ Edmund Hobhouse, Calendar of the Register of John de Drokensford, 1309–1329 (Somerset Record Society, 1887), p. 93
^ Hobhouse, op. cit., p. 115
^ Hobhouse, op. cit., p. 245
^ William Buckler, Ilchester Almshouse Deeds: From the Time of King John to the Reign of James the First, 1200-1625 (1866), D. no. 26, App. no. 9
^ Cler. Subs. bundle 4, no. 1, m. 6
^ Cal. Pat. 1405–08, p. 306
^ Buckler, op. cit., D. no. 11-98, App. xii

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[page-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Page, William (1911). "Hospitals: Ilchester and Langport'". A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 2. British History Online. Retrieved 9 January 2010.

[2] The Battle Abbey Roll by The Duchess of Cleveland, Vol.1, "Denise"

[3] James Stevens-Cox, A History of Ilchester, the ancient county town of Somerset nos. 1-6, 8 & 9 (1958), p. 129

[4] Power, Eileen (1988). Medieval English Nunneries, c. 1275 to 1535. Biblo & Tannen Booksellers & Publishers Incorporat. p. 233. ISBN 978-0-8196-0140-7.

[5] "Chapel, Whitehall hospital and nunnery, High Street, Ilchester". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Retrieved 9 January 2010.

[sher-6] "Augustinian nunnery, High Street, Ilchester". Somerset Historic Environment Record. Somerset County Council. Retrieved 9 January 2010.

[7] Edmund Hobhouse, Calendar of the Register of John de Drokensford, 1309–1329 (Somerset Record Society, 1887), p. 93

[8] Hobhouse, op. cit., p. 115

[9] Hobhouse, op. cit., p. 245

[10] William Buckler, Ilchester Almshouse Deeds: From the Time of King John to the Reign of James the First, 1200-1625 (1866), D. no. 26, App. no. 9

[11] Cler. Subs. bundle 4, no. 1, m. 6

[12] Cal. Pat. 1405–08, p. 306

[13] Buckler, op. cit., D. no. 11-98, App. xii

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