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Alien priory
Priory Pri"o*ry, n.; pl. Priories. [Cf. LL. prioria. See Prior, n.] A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2. Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot. Alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large monastery in some other country. Syn: See Cloister.

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- Alien priories were religious establishments in England, such as monasteries and convents, which were under the control of another religious house outside...
- other alien priories it was eventually given its independence from Bec in 1409 by the quasi-naturalisation process known as denization. The priory was finally...
- Marjorie M. Morgan, The Suppression of the Alien Priories, in History NS 26, 103 (1941) 204, 208 Alien houses: Priory of Blakenham, in William Page(ed.), A...
- were at war, lands belonging to the alien priory of Saint Mary of Lire, at Evreux, in Normandy. When Wareham Priory was lost, soon after Henry's accession...
- Winchester, secured both papal and royal authority to acquire the lands of alien priories for his colleges, and in the following year he obtained from Richard...
- different site by Nigel de Mundeville, Lord of Folkestone. This was an alien priory, a cell belonging to the Abbey of Lonley or Lolley in Normandy, dedicated...
- Abbey in Ghent. The priory, a dependency of St. Peter's Abbey and thus an alien priory, was founded in the same year. The priory was dissolved and its...
- granted the monastery to the Abbey of St Denis in France, making it an alien priory. According to the chronicler Matthew Paris (circa 1200–1259), in 1250...
- Longville Priory was an alien priory in Newton Longville, Buckinghamshire, England. It was established in the 1150s and was dissolved in 1441. The priory of...
- St Peter. It was a dependent priory of the abbey of St Florent in Saumur, France, and was thus considered an alien priory. The house was ****ociated with...