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Dedicated to: Virgin Mary Medieval Diocese: Llandaff Affiliated to: L’Aumône, France (mother-house); Kingswood, Glos (daughter-house); Tintern Parva, Ireland, (daughter-house) Lordship at foundation: Striguil Access: Public Owned by: Cadw [http://cadw.wales.gov.uk/daysout/tinternabbey/?lang=en] Main events in the history of this site 1131: Foundation - [1 source] 1139: Founds daughter-house - Tintern founded its first daughter-house at Kingswood, Glos. [1 source] 1169-88: Dispute - Tintern was engaged in a dispute with the Cistercians of Waverley. This was under Abbot William (resigned 1188). [1 source] c.1188: Breach of rules - The Cistercians were originally prohibited from receiving tithes yet the monks of Tintern accepted a grant of tithes from Woolaston and the chepel of Alvington, Gloucestershire. [1 source] 1189: Patronage - William Marshal became lord of Chepstow and as such took on the patronage of Tintern. [1 source] 1200: Founds daughter-house - Tintern founded a second daughter-house; this was Tintern Parva in Ireland. [4 sources][1 archive] 1220: Burial - William Marshal's widow, Isabel de Clare, was buried at Tintern. [2 sources] 1223-1224: Patronage - William Marshal's son, William the Younger (d. 1231), succeeded his father as patron of Tintern and was a generous benefactor. [1 source] 1245: Burial - Walter and Anselm, the sons of William Marshal and Isabel de Clare, were buried at Tintern. [1 source] 1245: Patronage - Patronage of Tintern passed to the Bigod family. [1 source] c.1247: Resources - Soon after this date the chapel and lands at Magor, in Monmouth, were leased to Tintern. [1 source] 1248: Burial - Matilda Marshal, William Marshal (I)'s daughter, was buried at Tintern, where her mother and two of her brothers lay. Her heart was buried at Lewes Priory. [1 source] 1282: Fine - The abbey was fined the significant sum of £112 for illicitly felling trees in 200 acres of the royal forest at Woolaston. [1 source] c.1291: Wealth - According to the Taxatio Ecclesiastica the monastery had over 3000 acres of arable, over 3000 sheep and its possessions were estimated at c. £145. [4 sources] 1302: Patronage - Roger Bigod IV, earl of Norfolk (d. 1306) was a generous benefactor and granted the monks of Tintern his entire manor of Acle, Norfolk. [1 source] 1326: Royal visitor - Edward II took refuge at the house when fleeing Roger Mortimer's army; he spent two nights at Tintern. [1 source] 1340: Debt - The monastery was in debt to the sum of £174 to the Italian merchants of Lucca. [1 source] 1395: Numbers - At this time there were fourteen monks at Tintern living with their abbot, John Wysbech. [1 source] 1469: Burial - William Herbert, Edward IV's Welsh 'master lock', was buried at Tintern. [2 sources] 1478: Visit - William of Worcester, antiquary and traveller, stayed at the house from Friday 4 September until Monday 7 September. [1 source] c.1535: Wealth - The survey - the Valor Ecclesiasticus - estimated Tintern's annual net income to be £192. [3 sources] 1536: Dissolution - Tintern was dissolved under the 1536 Act of Suppression on 3 September 1536. [3 sources][1 archive] + 18 minor events. Show minor events People associated with this site Abbots of Tintern Walter de Clare; Walter Fitz Richard , baron; lord of Chepstow (founder) William Herbert , Earl of Pembroke (burial) William Marshal , fourth earl of Pembroke (patron) William Marshal the Younger, fifth earl of Pembroke (patron) William of Worcester; William of Worcestre; William Botoner , author and topographer Bibliographical sources 113 Printed sources show sources 'Condition of Tintern Abbey', Builder, 85 (1903 (Oct)), p. 429 'Tintern Abbey', Journal of the British Archaeological Association, new series, 35 (1929), pp. 54-57 The Cistercian Abbeys of Britain: far from the concourse of men, ed. David M. Robinson (London, 1998) pp. 186-91 Flores Historiarum, Rolls Series, 95, 3 vols, ed. H. R. Luard (London, 1890) Medieval Monasteries of Great Britain, ed. Lionel Butler and Christopher Given-Wilson (London, 1979) pp. 348, 362-366 The Magor Pill Wreck, CBA Research Report 115, ed. N. Nayling (Council for British Archaeology: 1998) Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. N. R. Ker (Royal Historical Society: 2nd edn; London, 1964) p. 190 Medieval Religious Houses, England and Wales, ed. R. Neville Hadcock and David Knowles (Harlow, 1971) pp. 114, 127 Monasticon Anglicanum: a History of the Abbies and other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England and Wales, 6 in 8 vols, ed. Sir William Dugdale, revised J. Caley, H. Ellis, B. Bandinel (London, 1817-1830) vol. 5, pp. 265-74 Baylis, Philip, 'Tintern Abbey', Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists Field Club (1902/1904), pp. 294-299 Bezant, Jemma, 'Travel and communication', in Monastic Wales: New Approaches, ed. Janet Burton and Karen Stöber (University of Wales: Cardiff, 2013), pp. 133-145 Blashill, Thomas, Guide to Tintern Abbey (Monmouth, 1878; rev. edn 1907) Blashill, Thomas, 'Tintern Abbey', Archaeologia Cambrensis, 5th series, 3:12 (1886), pp. 241-252 Blashill, Thomas, 'An Architectural History of Tintern Abbey', Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 6 (1881 / 2), pp. 88-106 Blockley, Kevin, 'Tintern Abbey (SS 523 001)', Archaeology in Wales 37 (1997), p. 102 Blockley, Kevin, 'Tintern Abbey Cottage (SS 523 001)', Archaeology in Wales, 38 (1998), p. 135 Blockley, Kevin, 'Tintern Abbey', Church Archaeology, 2 (1998), pp. 71-72 Blockley, Kevin, 'Tintern Abbey Cottage', Church Archaeology, 3 (1999), p. 61 Bradney, J. A., A History of Monmouthshire: From the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time, 4 vols (London, 1904-1932) vol. 2: 2, pp. 255-63 Brakspear, H., and Evans, M., Tintern Abbey (HMSO: 1910) Brakspear, Harold, Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire, Office of Works, Department of Ancient Monuments & Historic Buildings, Official Guides (1934) Brakspear, Harold, Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire (London, 1919; rev. edn 1929) Brakspear, Harold, 'Tintern Abbey', Archaeological Journal, 61 (1904), pp. 212-214 Clarke, Stephen and Milford, Brian, 'Tintern Abbey (SO 533000)', Archaeology in Wales, 38 (1998), p. 135 Cooper, R., Abbeys and Priories of Wales (Swansea, 1992) pp. 83-87 Courtney, P., 'Excavations in the outer precinct of Tintern abbey', Medieval Archaeology, 33 (1989), pp. 99-143 Courtney, Paul, 'A Non-Ferrous Industrial Complex at Tintern Abbey', Historical Metallurgy, 16 (1982), pp. 22-23 Courtney, Paul, 'Two pieces of modelled Cistercian Ware from Tintern Abbey', Medieval and Later Pottery in Wales, 9 (1986/7), pp. 68-69 Courtney, Paul and Gray, Madeleine, 'Tintern abbey after the Dissolution', Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, 38 (1991), pp. 145-158 Craster, O. 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Williams (Leeds, 2006), pp. 86-101 Harrison, Stuart, Morris, Richard and Robinson, David M., 'A fourteenth-century pulpitum screen at Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire', Antiquaries Journal, 78 (1998), pp. 177-268 Harvey, W., 'Tintern Abbey', The Builder, 123 (1922), pp. 239-45 Harvey, W., 'Tintern Abbey: a record of repairs executed since 1913 under the direction of HM Office of Works', The Structural Engineer, (1924) pp. 152-9 (April); pp. 206-213 (May); pp. 394-300 (Dec) Heath, Charles Monmouthshire, Historical and Descriptive Accounts of the Ancient and Present State of Tintern Abbey including a variety of other particulars relating to that much-admired Ruin. To which is added the Charters of its Foundation, With Curious Notices of the Monastic Order (C. 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Janet Burton and Karen Stöber (University of Wales: Cardiff, 2013), pp. 119-131 Huws, Daniel, 'The Tintern Abbey Bible', in Medieval Welsh Manuscripts, (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2000), pp. 258-268 Huws, Daniel, 'The Tintern Abbey Bible', The Monmouthshire Antiquary, 6 (1990), pp. 47-54 Jones, Jill, 'Tintern’s Monks Make Way for Metal Men', Country Quest, (2004 (February)), pp. 34-35 Jurica, A. R. J., 'Hewelsfield and Brocweir', in A History of the County of Gloucester Vol. V: Bledislow Hundred, St. Briavels Hundred, the Forest of Dean, Victoria County Histories, ed. N. M. Herbert (Oxford University Press: London, 1996), pp. 154-156 Kennedy, John, 'The Monks Who Made a Landscape', Country Quest (2006 (May)), pp. 16-17 Kerr, Julie, 'Cistercian hospitality in the later Middle Ages', in Monasteries and Society in the British Isles in the Later Middle Ages, Studies in the History of Medieval Religion, 35, ed. 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S., Enchanting Ruin: Tintern Abbey and Romantic Tourism in Wales (online exhibition) (View website) Prestwich, Michael, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online - Roger Bigod IV (View website) RCAHMW, Coflein database - Tintern Abbey (View website) Archival sources Canterbury Cathedral Archives, 'Abbatial seal, Tintern Abbey, attached to letter from Tintern (Ireland) to the Canterbury monks', (Document), (View website) British Library, 'Agreement between the abbeys of Margam and Llantarnam', (Document), (View website) British Library, 'Continuation of the Flores Historiarum (an abridgement of Matthew Paris' Chronica Maiora)', (Document), (View website) British Library, 'Copy of William Marshal's bequest of land to found Tintern Parva, Co. Wexford', (Document), (View website) The National Archives, 'Exchequer: King's Remembrancer: Ancient Deeds, Series D - demise of weir to Tintern', (Document), (View website) The National Archives and Kings College London, 'Fine Roll C 60/11, 3 Henry III', (Document), (View website) The National Archives, 'Special Collections: Ministers' and Receivers' Accounts - possessions of Tintern (post Dissolution', (Document), (View website) National Library of Wales, 'Tintern Abbey Bible', (Document), (View website) Related articles on Monastic Wales Remnants of Tintern Abbey, The Cistercians in Wales, Professor Janet Burton Who were the Cistercians?, Professor Janet Burton Images of this site Church at Tintern Abbey Cloisters, Tintern Abbey Cupboard in the refectory, Tintern Abbey Doorway, Tintern Abbey Groundplan of Tintern Abbey, Cadw, Welsh Government (Crown Copyright) Nave of the church at Tintern showing the clustered piers Nave of the church at Tintern, looking towards the west end Night stairs at Tintern Abbey (north transept of the church) North Aisle Transept, Tintern Abbey North transept, abbey church at Tintern Refectory, Tintern Abbey Roof Boss, Tintern Abbey Roof Boss, Tintern Abbey South transept, abbey church of St Mary the Virgin, Tintern Tintern Abbey church Tintern Abbey from the south Tintern Abbey from the warming house Tintern Abbey warming house and day stair Tintern Abbey, interior of church Tintern Abbey, looking to church from the cloister $Tintern Abbey, monks\$ Tintern Abbey, monks' refectory Tintern Abbey, north transept Tintern Abbey, north transept $Tintern Abbey, north transept of church and site of the monks\$ Tintern Abbey, north transept of church and site of the monks' dormitory View of infirmary, Tintern Abbey West processional doorway, abbey church of St Mary the Virgin, Tintern	North transept, abbey church at Tintern Monmouthshire, OS Grid:SO533000 View site details on COFLEIN (RCAHMW database)[new window]

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