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Gloucester Whitefriars
Whitefriars, also known as the White Friars or The College of Carmelites, Gloucester, England, was a Carmelite friary of which nothing now survives. History The Friary was outside the north gate of the city and was founded around 1268 or 1269, probably by Queen Eleanor, Sir Thomas Gifford (or ''Giffard''), and Sir Thomas Berkeley. Fosbrooke, T.D. (1819) ''An Original History of the City of Gloucester''. Reprint, Gloucester: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1986, p. 150. By 1337 there were 31 friars resident. The Friary produced some important men, including Nicholas Cantelow (''Cantelupe of Gloucester'') and David Bois, but by the time of the dissolution of the monasteries the Friary had declined, having only three friars remaining. According to Fosbrooke, much of the Friary was destroyed about 1567, while materials from the buildings were used to fortify Gloucester during the English Civil War. The founder's lodgings were converted to a barn during the war. During the reign of Elizab ...
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Coat Of Arms Of The Carmelite Order (simple)
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Greyfriars, Gloucester
Greyfriars, Gloucester, England, was a medieval monastic house founded about 1231. In about 1518 a prominent local family, the Berkeleys of Berkeley Castle, paid for the church to be rebuilt in Perpendicular Gothic style.History and Research: Greyfriars
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The rest of the friary complex was later demolished.


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Christian Monasteries Established In The 13th Century
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1268 Establishments In England
1 (one, unit, unity) is a number representing a single or the only entity. 1 is also a numerical digit and represents a single unit of counting or measurement. For example, a line segment of ''unit length'' is a line segment of length 1. In conventions of sign where zero is considered neither positive nor negative, 1 is the first and smallest positive integer. It is also sometimes considered the first of the infinite sequence of natural numbers, followed by  2, although by other definitions 1 is the second natural number, following  0. The fundamental mathematical property of 1 is to be a multiplicative identity, meaning that any number multiplied by 1 equals the same number. Most if not all properties of 1 can be deduced from this. In advanced mathematics, a multiplicative identity is often denoted 1, even if it is not a number. 1 is by convention not considered a prime number; this was not universally accepted until the mid-20th century. Additionally, 1 is the s ...
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