St James' Priory is a Grade I listed building in Horsefair, Whitson Street, Bristol. Founded in the 1120s as a Benedictine priory, after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the nave of the priory church continued in use as a parish church. Bristol is a unitary authority with city and ceremonial county status in South West England. ... A Benedictine is a person who follows the Rule of St Benedict. ... The Dissolution of the Monasteries (referred to by Roman Catholic writers as the Suppression of the Monasteries) was the formal process, taking place between 1538 and 1541, by which King Henry VIII confiscated the property of the Roman Catholic monastic institutions in England and took them to himself, as the...
of the empress, that prince before his accession to the throne granted him, by his charter at Bristol in the earlier half of 1153, the Gloucestershire manor of Bitton, and a hundred librates of land in the manor of Berkeley, Henry agreeing to strengthen the castle of Berkeley, which was evidently already in Roberts hands.
In their priory church he was buried in 1170, Berkeley descending to his son and heir Maurice.
But as the queen passed by Berkeley on her way to seize Bristol, she gave back the castle, which had been kept by the younger Despenser, to Thomas, the prisoners heir, who, with Sir John Mautravers, soon received in his hold the deposed king brought thither secretly.
Feeds |
Contact