Monastic Wales.








Event detail for site: Llangennith

1218: Size of community

At this time there were two or three monks at Llangennith.

According to Gerald of Wales this was a blatant conflagration of the Third Lateran Council of 1179.

People associated with this event

Gerald of Wales; Giraldus Cambrensis , archdeacon of Brecon (commentator)

Bibliographical sources

Printed sources

Cowley, F. G., The Monastic Order in South Wales 1066-1349 (Cardiff, 1977) p. 20

Other events in the history of this site

pre 1123: Foundation - Llangennith was an alien priory established before 1123 when the church of St Cenydd was granted to the monks of St Taurinus, Normandy. [3 sources]
1195: Confirmation - Richard I (1189-99) confirmed all the priory’s previous grants. [1 sources]
1218: Size of community - At this time there were two or three monks at Llangennith. [1 sources]
pre 1223: Illicit affairs - According to Gerald of Wales, a prior of Llangennith brought shame upon the house when he engaged in an illicit affair with a young woman of Gower. [2 sources]
1291: Wealth - According to Pope Nicholas IV's Taxatio Ecclesiastica, Llangennith’s temporalities were assessed at £4 16s and the community had 120 acres of arable land and six cows. [2 sources]
1295x1360: Custody - Following the outbreak of war with France, Llangennith was periodically taken into royal custody [2 sources]
1377: Poll tax - Only the prior of the house is listed on the poll tax return. [1 sources][1 archives]
1413x1421: Custody - The house was seized again during Henry V's reign and taken into royal custody. [1 sources]
c.1434: Custody - By 1434 Llangennith's links with St Taurinus had been severed. [1 sources]
1441: Dissolution - On 16 March 1441 Archbishop Chichele and his colleagues surrendered the house to Henry VI. [1 sources]
1442: Post monastic ownership - On 5 February Archbishop Chichele and his colleagues granted Llangennith and St Clears to the king who duly granted them to the Oxford colleges of Warden and All Souls in April. [2 sources]
 
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