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May 6, 2016 · The evidence of inquisitions post mortem would also suggest that in its last years the priory held in service the manors of 'le Conygar' in Amesbury (1502), Rockley (1471), and Woolmore (1502). (fn. 241) Later inventories show that the priory held lands in these places but do not describe them as manors.
Oct 30, 2021 · Current Archaeology's Carly Hilts travelled to the site to learn more about prehistoric hunters and traces of a priory associated with a medieval queen. Start. Current Archaeology. October 30, 2021. About 1.5 miles from Stonehenge, an ancient spring in Amesbury has yielded evidence of repeated human gatherings dating back over 9,000 years.
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Amesbury Abbey was a Benedictine abbey of women at Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, founded by Queen Ælfthryth in about the year 979 on what may have been the site of an earlier monastery. The abbey was dissolved in 1177 by Henry II, who founded in its place a house of the Order of Fontevraud, known as Amesbury Priory .
In 1285, Eleanor of Provence (widow of Henry III) entered the Priory and became a nun. She died in 1291 and was buried in front of the High Altar in the presence of Edward I and his court. Edward visited the Priory many times. In 1400 a dispute arose between the Prioress and the Prior.
At a date now unknown, Sybil became a professed nun of Amesbury Priory, a house of the Order of Fontesvraud. It is recorded that in 1391 her election as prioress was confirmed by the King, then Richard II .
In 1916-22, the Amesbury and Rutherford estates, including Stonehenge, were largely disposed of through a series of sales, and Sir Cosmo was left with only a couple of hundred acres around Amesbury Abbey and West Amesbury House.
