Alberbury Priory

{{Short description|Medieval monastic house in Alberbury, Shropshire}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} thumb|Alberbury Priory (Abbot's House), 1796 '''Alberbury Priory''' was a medieval monastic house in Alberbury, Shropshire, England, established c.1230. It was one of three houses in England belonging to the French Grandmontine Order.<ref name="ms1">{{cite book|last=Baugh, Cox|first=G.C., D.C.|title=Monastic Shropshire|year=1982|publisher=Shropshire Libraries|page=8|isbn=0-903802-18-X}}</ref>

The monastery was small, with only 7 monks under a prior in occupancy in 1344, possibly supported by 'lay brothers' who did manual work.<ref name="ms2">{{cite book|title=Monastic Shropshire|page=9}}</ref>

In 1359, the then prior of Alberbury was deposed for alleged violence, murder, and dissipation of the priory's goods. In 1364, one of his successors was outlawed for alleged murder and fled the house.<ref name="ms3">{{cite book|title=Monastic Shropshire|pages=14–15}}</ref>

Alberbury Priory was dissolved in 1441 when King Henry VI, who had seized the alien houses during the Hundred Years War, gave it as an endowment to All Souls' College, Oxford.<ref name="ms4">{{cite book|title=Monastic Shropshire|page=16}}</ref>

==Burials== *Fulk I FitzWarin *Maud le Vavasour, Baroness Butler *Fulk FitzWarin

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Category:Monasteries in Shropshire