Horton Priory

{{Short description|Benedictine priory in Dorset, England}} {{about|the priory in Dorset|the priory near Folkestone in Kent|Monks Horton}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}}

'''Horton Priory''' was a [[priory]] at [[Horton, Dorset|Horton]] in [[Dorset]], [[England]].

It was founded as a Benedictine abbey around 970 by [[Ordgar, Ealdorman of Devon|Ordgar, Earl of Devon]],<ref name="Monasticon">{{cite book|title=Monasticon Anglicanum...a History of the Abbies and Other Monasteries...and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches...in England and Wales|url=https://archive.org/details/b30455832_0005|year=1846|publisher=Bohn|page=[https://archive.org/details/b30455832_0005/page/511 511]}}</ref> or his son, Ordulph, and dedicated to [[Wulfthryth of Wilton|Saint Olfrida, Wilfrida or Wulfthryth]], the mother of Saint [[Edith of Wilton]] by King [[Edgar the Peaceful]]. In the early twelfth century it was reduced to priory status by [[Roger of Salisbury|Roger, bishop of Salisbury]] and made dependent on [[Sherborne Abbey]].<ref name=VCH>{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=40142#s3|author= Page, William|title=Houses of Benedictine monks: The priories of Cranbourne and Horton|work= A History of the County of Dorset: Volume 2|location=London|year=1908|pp=70–73|publisher=Accessed via British History Online|access-date=26 August 2016}}</ref>

At the Dissolution in 1539 Sherborne Abbey was surrendered to the king, and in 1547 it was granted to [[Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset]]. On Somerset's attainder it was granted to [[William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1501–1570)|William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke]].<ref name=VCH/> The present Horton parish church, St. Wolfrida, was built on the site of the priory in the 18th century. No traces of the original priory remain.<ref name="Monasticon"/>

==Known Priors== * * Hugh, occurs 1286 <ref>Pat. 14 [[Edward I|Edw. I]], m. 18, 19.</ref> * * John de Bradeford, occurs 1348.<ref>22 Edw. III, pt. 1, m. 43 d.</ref> * * John Cosyn, occurs 1401.<ref>Cal. Pap. Letters, v, 362.</ref> * * Henry Trew, occurs 1459–60 <ref name="Dugdale, Mon. ii, 511">Dugdale, Mon. ii, 511.</ref> * * John Dorchester, occurs 1504<ref name="Dugdale, Mon. ii, 511"/> * * John Hart or Herte alias Raynold, occurs on its surrender, 1539.<ref name=VCH/><ref>[[Public Record Office|P.R.O.]] Deeds of Surrender, No. 40; L. and P. Hen. VIII, xiv (i), 556.</ref>

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