# Edith Weston Priory

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Alien house of Benedictine monks in Edith Weston, Rutland

Edith Weston Priory Where the priory once stood is now this shallow bay in Rutland Water Location within Rutland Monastery information Order Benedictine Established 1114 Disestablished 1394 Mother house Abbey of Saint-Georges, Boscherville, France Diocese Diocese of Lincoln Site Location Edith Weston, Rutland, England Coordinates 52°38′26″N 0°38′05″W / 52.6405°N 0.6347°W / 52.6405; -0.6347

**Edith Weston Priory** was a small [alien house](/source/Alien_house) of [Benedictine](/source/Benedictine) monks in [Edith Weston](/source/Edith_Weston), [Rutland](/source/Rutland). The French parent house of [Abbey of Saint-Georges, Boscherville](/source/Abbey_of_Saint-Georges%2C_Boscherville) was founded by Ralf de Tanquerville, chamberlain to [William the Conqueror](/source/William_the_Conqueror), about the year 1050. By 1114 his son William donated the church and manor at Edith Weston, and a small cell of monks was set up to collect the rents and intercede for the founder's soul.[1][2]

The cell was one of two in England: William founded [Avebury Priory](/source/Avebury_Priory) in Wiltshire around the same time.[3] Like all alien houses, control (and revenues) passed to the Crown in time of war with France, and it was during one of these periods that the priory closed. The last known Prior was in 1361, and by 1394 the church and manor had been sold to [St. Anne's Priory, Coventry](/source/St._Anne's_Priory%2C_Coventry), bringing the priory to an end.[1][2]

[Pevsner](/source/Nikolaus_Pevsner) was dismissive of the priory, saying that [Brooke Priory](/source/Brooke_Priory) was the only monastery in Rutland as "Edith Weston hardly counts as one".[4]

The earthwork remains probably now lie below the waters of [Rutland Water](/source/Rutland_Water).[2]

## Priors of Edith Weston

Only a few names are known:[1][5]

- John, 1295–1298

- Hugh de Altifago, 1324–1326

- Robert de Cunebaud, 1339–1355

- William de Beauvey, 1355

- Robert, 1361

- John, 1375, 1379

Robert de Cunebaud is known as a delinquent whose abuses were used to justify widespread suspicion of alien cells[1]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-VCH1_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-VCH1_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-VCH1_1-2) [***d***](#cite_ref-VCH1_1-3) Page, William, ed. (1908). "Alien Cell: Priory of Edith Weston". [*A History of the County of Rutland: Volume 1*](http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=39914). Victoria County History. pp. 163–164. Retrieved 26 May 2013.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-PS1_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-PS1_2-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-PS1_2-2) [Historic England](/source/Historic_England). ["Edith Weston Priory (325159)"](https://www.heritagegateway.org.uk/Gateway/Results_Single.aspx?uid=325159&resourceID=19191). *Research records (formerly PastScape)*. Retrieved 26 May 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Pugh, R.B.](/source/Ralph_Pugh); Crittall, Elizabeth, eds. (1956). "Alien Houses: The Priory of Avebury". [*A History of the County of Wiltshire, Volume 3*](https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol3/pp392-393). [Victoria County History](/source/Victoria_County_History). University of London. pp. 392–393. Retrieved 6 August 2021 – via British History Online.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** [Pevsner, Nikolaus](/source/Nikolaus_Pevsner); Williamson, Elizabeth; Brandwood, Geoffrey K. (1985). [*Leicestershire and Rutland*](https://books.google.com/books?id=UYlQ6DJdJ4AC&q=brooke+priory+rutland&pg=PA439). The buildings of England. Yale University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780300096187](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780300096187). Retrieved 26 May 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Smith, David Michael (1972). [*The Heads of Religious Houses, England and Wales: 1377-1540*](https://books.google.com/books?id=aRDqqGWj3ikC&q=edith+weston+priory+rutland&pg=PA158). The Heads of Religious Houses, England and Wales. Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press. p. 158. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780521865081](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780521865081).

- Knowles, David; Hadcock, R Neville (1971). *Medieval religious houses in England and Wales*. Longman. p. 89. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0582112308](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0582112308).

v t e Monasteries in Leicestershire and Rutland Augustinian Brooke Priory Bradley Priory Charley Priory Grace Dieu Priory Kirby Bellars Priory Launde Priory Leicester Abbey Leicester Austin Friary Owston Abbey Ulverscroft Priory Benedictine Belvoir Priory Breedon Priory Edith Weston Priory Hinckley Priory Langley Priory Brothers of Penitence Leicester Friars of the Sack Cistercian Garendon Abbey Mount St Bernard Abbey Cluniac Aldermanshaw Priory Dominican Blackfriars, Leicester Holy Cross Priory, Leicester Franciscan Greyfriars, Leicester Knights Hospitaller Dalby Preceptory Heather Preceptory Rothley Temple Swinford Preceptory Knights Templar Rothley Temple Premonstratensian Croxton Abbey Unknown or Independent Holy Hill Monastery

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