Monastic Wales.








Event detail for site: Bassaleg

1116: Official beginnings

The first monks arrived from Glastonbury to occupy the cell.

Bassaleg was not intended to be a conventual priory and was occupied by just one or two monks of Glastonbury who essentially manned their dependency.

Bibliographical sources

Printed sources

Cowley, F. G., The Monastic Order in South Wales 1066-1349 (Cardiff, 1977) p. 40

Other events in the history of this site

c.1100: Foundation - The foundation charter has not survived but was copied by Adam of Domerham, a monk of Glastonbury, and a thirteenth-century copy is preserved in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R.5.33, 106v. [2 sources][1 archives]
1116: Official beginnings - The first monks arrived from Glastonbury to occupy the cell. [1 sources]
1146: Dispute - The monks were involved in a dispute with the chaplain of St Gundleus over the boundaries of their parishes.  [1 sources]
c.1175: Patronage - Hywel ab Iorwerth gave the monks lands in Rumney Moor. [1 sources]
1230-1240: Spiritualities - Although it was against Canon Law for communities to lease out their spiritual holdings this was not uncommon.  [2 sources]
pre 1252: Dissolution - Monastic life at Bassaleg had ceased by 1252. [1 sources]
 
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