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Carisbrooke Priory was an
alien priory Alien priories were religious establishments in England, such as monasteries and convents, which were under the control of another religious house outside England. Usually the mother-house was in France.Coredon ''Dictionary of Medieval Terms'' p. ...
, a dependency of Lyre Abbey in Normandy. The priory was situated on rising ground on the outskirts of Carisbrooke close to
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on the Isle of Wight. This priory was dissolved in around 1415. A second Carisbrooke Priory was created in 1993, when St. Dominic's Priory, which had been established as a community of Dominican nuns in 1865–66 (on a different site from the earlier priory) was so renamed.


History


Benedictine monks

In 1046, William FitzOsbern, kinsman of William the Conqueror, founded Lyre Abbey in Normandy. When William became King of England, FitzOsbern was given charge of the Isle of Wight, and took up residence in Carisbrooke Castle. In the wake of the Norman conquest, FitzObern became one of the great magnates of early Norman England, acquiring extensive lands there, from which he made generous donations to Lyre Abbey. The church of Carisbrooke, and other property, had been granted to the abbey of Lyre, probably by William Fitz Osberne, Earl of Hereford, around 1067."Alien houses: Carisbrooke priory." A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2. Eds. H Arthur Doubleday, and William Page. London: Victoria County History, 1903. 230-231. British History Online. Web. 5 February 2020
/ref> By the mid-12th century, Lyre Abbey had adopted the Benedictine rule. Around 1100,
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made Richard de Redvers, also from Normandy, Lord of the Isle of Wight. His son, Baldwin de Redvers, Earl of Exeter and Lord of the Isle of Wight, gave to the Abbey of Lyre all the churches, tithes, lands, rents and benefits that he held throughout the island. Henry II's confirmation charter to Lyre Abbey specifies its possessions throughout England. The priory of Carisbrooke was founded in 1156 by Baldwin de Redvers, to collect the dues in the Isle of Wight of the parent house in Normandy. The monks of Carisbrooke served the chapels of Newport and Northwood In 1295, when King Edward I of England was at war with France, Carisbrooke was among the alien priories impounded by the Crown. This happened again during the reign of
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and the priory, being in the king's hands, was granted by
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to the Carthusian
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in Yorkshire. It was restored to Prior Thomas Val Oseul by Henry IV on condition of the "apport" or customary tribute to Lyre being paid instead to the Crown, and future appointments of monks being filled by Englishmen, but was seized again by
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and bestowed on his new charterhouse at Sheen, and the monks dispersed.


Dominican nuns

Elizabeth Burrell, daughter of Peter Burrell, 1st
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, and Lady Priscilla Bertie, ''suo jure''
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, was married to John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare,
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. They lived apart, Lady Clare taking up residence at Ryde on the Isle of Wight. In 1865 she invited the nuns of the Dominican Order at Stonyhurst to move to the Isle of Wight. She provided £12,000 towards the cost of a new priory, St. Dominic's Priory, at Carisbrooke on a different site to the pre-Reformation priory.Clarke, Peter. "St. Dominic's Priory", Isle of Wight Catholic Historical Society
/ref> In the mid-17th century, Philip Howard, a Dominican friar and son of
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, founded a convent of nuns of the Second Order of Saint Dominic at Vilvoorde in Flanders. This community later relocated to Carisbrooke.Lescher, Wilfrid. "Philip Thomas Howard." The Catholic Encyclopedia
Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 4 February 2020
In April 1993, the recently formed Carisbrooke Priory Trust purchased the freehold of the then St Dominic's Priory, Carisbrooke on the Isle of Wight, the home of the Catholic Community of nuns since the house was built on the Victorian site in 1866.


References


External links


Carisbrooke Priory website
{{Benedictine houses of England and Wales Alien priories in England Monasteries in the Isle of Wight Benedictine monasteries in England Dominican monasteries in England