Swinford Preceptory is a former monastery of the

Knights Hospitaller The Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem ( la, Ordo Fratrum Hospitalis Sancti Ioannis Hierosolymitani), commonly known as the Knights Hospitaller (), was a medieval and early modern Catholic Church, Catholic Military ord ...

located near to the village of

Swinford, Leicestershire Swinford is a nucleated village and civil parish in the Harborough District, Harborough district of the England, English county of Leicestershire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 586. It used to be on the former A427 ro ...

History

The preceptory was founded before 1199, with land at Swinford donated to the

by Robert Rivell.Swinford Hospitaller Preceptory
''English Heritage: PastScape'' Only a small preceptory, it was under the control of

Dalby Preceptory Dalby Preceptory, also known as Dalby and Heather Preceptory, was a preceptory of the Knights Hospitaller, in the village of Old Dalby, Leicestershire, England. History Land at Dalby was given to the Knights Hospitaller by Robert de Beaumont, ...

before 1220. By 1338, however, the preceptory had become a "camera" (a lesser establishment dependent upon another), under the administration of a

seneschal The word ''seneschal'' () can have several different meanings, all of which reflect certain types of supervising or administering in a historic context. Most commonly, a seneschal was a senior position filled by a court appointment within a royal, ...

and bailiff. The

in England were disbanded in 1540, and their preceptories dissolved as part of

King Henry VIII Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disag ...

's Dissolution of the Monasteries.House of Knights Hospitallers: Preceptory of Dalby and Heather
''A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 2'' (1954), pp. 32-33. Date accessed: 27 June 2013.

References

{{Monasteries in Leicestershire , state=expanded Monasteries in Leicestershire Preceptories of the Knights Hospitaller in England

History

See also

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