Breamore Priory was a

priory A priory is a monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or nuns (such as the Dominicans, Augustinians, Franciscans, and Carmelites), or monasteries of mon ...

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Breamore Breamore ( ) is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish near Fordingbridge in Hampshire, England. The parish includes a notable Elizabethan English country house, country house, Breamore House, built with an E-shaped ground plan. T ...

, Hampshire, England.

Foundation

The priory was founded some time towards the end of the reign of

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by Baldwin de Redvers and his uncle

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12th to 16th centuries

In the 14th century, the

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was created at Breamore.

Dissolution

The last prior, Prior Finch, wrote at least twice to

Thomas Cromwell Thomas Cromwell (; 1485 – 28 July 1540), briefly Earl of Essex, was an English lawyer and statesman who served as chief minister to King Henry VIII from 1534 to 1540, when he was beheaded on orders of the king, who later blamed false charge ...

proffering his service and that of his house, and desiring Cromwell's favour. But according to the '' Valor Ecclesiasticus'' of 1535 the annual value of the priory was £200 5s. 1½d., together with two pounds of pepper. Less alms and other obligatory outgoings of £45 11s. the annual value was only £154 14s. 1½d. and the pepper. This brought the house well below the limit for the first series of dissolutions, and it was surrendered on 10 July 1536.

Post-Dissolution

The site of the priory and all its possessions was granted in November 1536 to Henry, Marquis of Exeter, and his wife Gertrude. Several of the manors of Breamore and

Southwick Priory Southwick Priory or Our Lady at Southwick () was a priory of Augustinian canons founded in Portchester Castle on Portsmouth Harbour and later transferred north to Southwick, Hampshire, England. It ceased at the Dissolution of the Monasteries ...

were included in the dower lands of Anne of Cleves in January 1540.''HMC Calendar of Manuscripts of the Marquess of Salisbury'', vol. 1 (London, 1883), p. 12 no. 58. A large manor house, Breamore House, was built on the site in 1583.

Present day

No above ground remains of the priory survive, although cropmarks can be seen on satellite imagery of the site.

Burials

Isabella de Forz, Countess of Devon Isabel de Forz (July 1237 – 10 November 1293) (or Isabel de Redvers, Latinized to Isabella de Fortibus) was the eldest daughter of Baldwin de Redvers, 6th Earl of Devon (1217–1245). On the death of her brother Baldwin de Redvers, 7th Earl ...

(1237–1293)

References

Sources

''A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2'', The Victoria County History 1973
Augustinian monasteries in England Priories in Hampshire 12th-century establishments in England 1536 disestablishments in England Christian monasteries established in the 12th century {{Hampshire-struct-stub