{{Short description|Small Benedictine house in Spalding, Lincolnshire}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{Use British English|date=August 2013}} [[File:Wenceslas Hollar - Spalding abbey (State 2).jpg|thumb|The priory precinct in a 17th-century engraving by [[Wenceslas Hollar]]]] '''Spalding Priory''' was a small [[Order of Saint Benedict|Benedictine]] house in the town of [[Spalding, Lincolnshire|Spalding]], [[Lincolnshire]], dedicated to [[Mary, mother of Jesus|St Mary the Virgin]] and [[St Nicholas]].
It was founded as a cell of [[Croyland Abbey]], in 1052, by [[Leofric, Earl of Mercia]] and his wife, [[Lady Godiva|Godiva, Countess of Leicester]]. It was supported by Leofric's eldest son. [[Ælfgār, Earl of Mercia]] and the monks were confirmed in their property in 1074, after the [[Norman Conquest of England]].<ref name=vch>{{cite book|series=Victoria County History|title=A History of the County of Lincoln|volume=2|editor-first=William|editor-last= Page|year=1906 |pages= 118–124 'Houses of Benedictine monks: The priory of Spalding'|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=37995|access-date=8 February 2011}}</ref>
Until 1220, [[Alkborough]] Priory Cell was a dependency of Spalding.
After 1071 one monk only remained in Spalding, so the house was refounded in 1074 as a dependent priory of [[:fr:Abbaye Saint-Nicolas d'Angers|St Nicholas's Abbey, Angers]]. The monks secured their independence from Angers in 1397, and remained so until 1540, when the house was surrendered at the dissolution. Six human skeletons found during building work in Bridge Street are presumed to indicate the site of the Priory burial ground.<ref name=ps1>{{PastScape|mnumber=352420|access-date=21 February 2011}}</ref>
The lands of the house passed to the family of Sir Richard Ogle of [[Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire|Pinchbeck]], and were included in the English jointure of [[Anne of Denmark]] in 1603.<ref>M. S. Giuseppi, ''HMC Calendar of the Manuscripts of the Marquess of Salisbury'', 16 (London, 1933), p. 353.</ref>
==Priors== Its priors included<ref name=vch/> * Simon 1229–1252 * James 1252–1253 * John 1253–1274 * At some time before 1278, there was a Wazinus. * William of Littleport 1278–1293 * Clement 1293–1318 * Walter de Halton 1318–1322 though he is reported as holding the post for 14 years. * Thomas de Nassington 1322–1353
==Burials== *[[Thomas Moulton (knight)]] and his father Lambert de Multon *Thomas de Moulton, father of [[Thomas de Multon, 1st Baron Multon of Gilsland]] *Lucy Mercia Tailebois, wife of [[Ivo Taillebois]]
==See also== *[[Monks Kirby Priory]], in Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, also as an English Benedictine house subsidiary to St Nicholas at Angers, established in the wake of the Norman Conquest *[[Adalbert of Spalding]], supposed author
==References== {{reflist}} {{refbegin}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080908101414/http://boar.org.uk/ariwxo3FNQ1102.htm This page reports some early developments in the priory's history.] {{refend}}
==Further reading== {{Smalldiv|1= {{Div col}} * [https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/lincs/vol2/pp118-124 "The Priory of Spalding"], in William Page (ed.), ''A History of the County of Lincoln'' (London: [[Victoria County History]], 1906), pp. 118–124. * Bailey, Mark, [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1016/0304-4181(89)90005-5 "Blowing up Bubbles: Some New Demographic Evidence for the Fifteenth Century?"], ''[[Journal of Medieval History]]'', vol. 15, no. 4 (1989), pp. 347–358. * Darby, H. C., ''The Medieval Fenland'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1940). * Gooch, E. H., ''A History of Spalding'' (Spalding: [[Spalding Free Press]], 1940). * [[Herbert Enoch Hallam|Hallam, H. E.]], "Goll Grange, a Grange of Spalding Priory", ''Lincolnshire Architectural and Archaeological Society Reports and Papers'', vol. 5 (1953), pp. 1–18. * [[Herbert Enoch Hallam|Hallam, H. E.]], ''The New Lands of Elloe: A Study of Early Reclamation in Lincolnshire'', Department of English Local History Occasional Papers, no. 6 (Leicester: [[University College of Leicester]], 1954). * [[Herbert Enoch Hallam|Hallam, H. E.]], [https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2591257.pdf "Some Thirteenth-Century Censuses"], ''[[The Economic History Review]]'', 2nd series, vol. 10, no. 3 (1958), pp. 340–361. * [[Herbert Enoch Hallam|Hallam, H. E.]], ''Settlement and Society: A Study of the Early Agrarian History of South Lincolnshire'' (Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]], 1965). * [[Herbert Enoch Hallam|Hallam, H. E.]], [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2598645 "Further Observations on the Spalding Serf Lists"], ''[[The Economic History Review]]'', 2nd series, vol. 16, no. 2 (1963), pp. 338–350. * [[Herbert Enoch Hallam|Hallam, H. E.]], [https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.NMS.3.35?journalCode=nms "The Agrarian Economy of South Lincolnshire in the Mid-Fifteenth Century"], ''[[Nottingham Medieval Studies]]'', vol. 11 (1967), pp. 86–95. * Jones, E. D., [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1016/0304-4181%2889%2990004-3?tab=permissions&scroll=top "Going Round in Circles: Some New Evidence for Population in the Later Middle Ages"], ''[[Journal of Medieval History]]'', vol. 15 (1989), pp. 329–345. * Jones, E. D., [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1016/0304-4181(91)90038-M "A Few Bubbles More: The Myntling Register Revisited"], ''[[Journal of Medieval History]]'', vol. 17, no. 3 (1991), pp. 263–269. * Jones, E. D., [https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.NMS.3.206?journalCode=nms "Villein Mobility in the Later Middle Ages: the Case of Spalding Priory"], ''[[Nottingham Medieval Studies]]'', vol. 36 (1992), pp. 151–166. * Jones, E. D., "The Medieval Merchet: A Late Contribution to the Debate", ''[[Medieval History (journal)|Medieval History]]'', vol. 2, no. 3 (1992), pp. 26–35. * Jones, E. D., [https://www.jstor.org/stable/574223 "The Medieval Leyrwite: A Historical Note on Female Fornication"], ''[[English Historical Review]]'', vol. 107 (1992), pp. 945–953. * Jones, E. D., [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01440369508531125 "Research Notes: Summary Execution at Spalding Priory 1250–1500"], ''[[Journal of Legal History]]'', vol. 16, no. 2 (1995), pp. 189–198. * Jones, E. D., [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/continuity-and-change/article/medieval-merchets-as-demographic-data-some-evidence-from-the-spalding-priory-estates-lincolnshire/CDE652F688C09440614CC4855934443A "Medieval Merchets as Demographic Data: Some Evidence from the Spalding Priory Estates, Lincolnshire"], ''[[Continuity and Change]]'', vol. 11, no. 3 (1996), pp. 459–470. * Jones, E. D., [https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.NMS.3.241 "Death by Document: A Re-Appraisal of Spalding Priory's Census Evidence for the 1260s"], ''[[Nottingham Medieval Studies]]'', vol. 39 (1995), pp. 54–69. * Jones, E. D., [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1016/S0304-4181%2898%2900005-0 "The Spalding Priory Merchet Evidence from the 1250 to the 1470s"], ''[[Journal of Medieval History]]'', vol. 24, no. 2 (1998), pp. 155–175. * Jones, E. D., [http://slha.org.uk/downloads/publications.php?filename=LHA33-Jones.pdf "Merchet Practice on the Spalding Priory Manor of Sutton from 1253 to 1477"], ''[[Lincolnshire History and Archaeology]]'', vol. 33, (1998), pp. 79–84. * Jones, E. D., [https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.NMS.3.297 "The Exploitation of its Serfs by Spalding Priory before the Black Death"], ''[[Nottingham Medieval Studies]]'', vol. 43 (1999), pp. 126–151. * Jones, E. D., [https://academic.oup.com/histres/article/73/180/93/5627833 "Some Spalding Priory Vagabonds of the Twelve-Sixties"], ''[[Historical Research]]'', vol. 73, no. 180 (2000), pp. 93–104. * Jones, E. D., "Spalding Priory and Its Serfs in the Fifteenth Century", ''[[Lincolnshire History and Archaeology]]'', vol. 35 (2000), pp. 64–68. * Jones, E. D., [https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.NMS.3.320?journalCode=nms "The Spalding Priory ''Operarii'' in the Thirteenth Century"], ''[[Nottingham Medieval Studies]]'', vol. 65 (2001), pp. 51–67. * [[Katharine Keats-Rohan|Keats-Rohan, K. S. B.]], [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/prosopon/issue2-2.pdf "Antecessor Noster: The Parentage of Countess Lucy Made Plain"], ''Prosopon Newsletter'', no. 2 (May 1995), pp. 1–3. * Liu, Wenxi, [https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/147377950002900104 "Competing for Justice Beyond Law Between Croyland and Spalding, 1189–1202"], ''[[Anglo-American Law Review]]'', vol. 29, no. 1 (2000), pp. 67–96. * Mitchell, Rose, and David Crook, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/1151439 "The Pinchbeck Fen Map: A Fifteenth‐Century Map of the Lincolnshire Fenland"], ''[[Imago Mundi]]'', vol. 51, no. 1 (1999), pp. 40–50. * Russell, J. C., [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1468-0289.1962.tb02232.x "Demographic Limitations of the Spalding Serf Lists"], ''[[The Economic History Review]]'', vol. 15, no. 1 (1962), pp. 138–144. * [[Richard Smith (historical geographer)|Smith, Richard M.]], [https://www.jstor.org/stable/27581629 "Hypothèses sur la nuptialité en Angleterre aux XIII<sup>e</sup>–XIV<sup>e</sup> siècles"], ''[[Annales, Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations]]'', vol. 38 (1983), pp. 107–136. * [[Richard Smith (historical geographer)|Smith, Richard M.]], "Demographic Developments in Rural England, 1300–1348: A Survey", in [[Bruce Campbell (historian)|B. M. S. Campbell]] (ed.), ''Before the Black Death: Studies in the Crisis of the Early Fourteenth Century'' (Manchester: [[Manchester University Press]], 1991), pp. 25–78. * Sumner, Neal, [http://centaur.reading.ac.uk/85210/1/RMS-1987-06_N_Sumner_The_Countess_Lucy%27s_Priory_The_Early_History_of_Spalding_Priory_and_its_Estates.pdf "The Countess Lucy's Priory? The Early History of Spalding Priory and its Estates"], ''[[Reading Medieval Studies]]'', vol. 8 (1987), pp. 81–103. * [[Joan Thirsk|Thirsk, Joan]], ''Fenland Farming in the Sixteenth Century'' (Leicester: [[Leicester University Press]], 1953).{{Div col end}}}}
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