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    Holmcultram Abbey (alternatively Holm Cultram Abbey or Holme Cultram Abbey) was a Cistercian monastery in what is now the village of Abbeytown in Cumbria...
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  • Rievaulx) Grace Dieu Abbey, Monmouthshire, Wales (1226 Waverley) Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, England (1246 Citeaux) Holmcultram Abbey, Cumbria, England...
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    County Cork (1170 Inislounaght (Suir)) Grey Abbey, Co, Down (1193 Holmcultram Abbey) Glangragh (Glanawydan) Abbey, County Waterford (1170 Inislounaght (Suir))...
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    Abbeytown (redirect from Abbey Town)
    mid-17th century (The Towne of the Abbey, Abbey Towne; Abbeytown from mid-18th century) and is named after the Holmcultram Abbey founded in the 12th century...
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  • Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale (category Burials at Holmcultram Abbey)
    the Earl & Countess of Carrick, at Turnberry, grant the men of Melrose abbey certain freedoms, according to English law. In 1286 he was witness, along...
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  • Abbeytown, a parish in Cumbria, England Holmcultram Abbey, also known as Holm Cultram Abbey or Holme Cultram Abbey, a Cistercian monastery in Cumbria, England...
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  • Robert Bruce, Lord of Liddesdale (category Burials at Holmcultram Abbey)
    taller than a spear's length. Bruce's body was recovered and buried at Holmcultram Abbey, near that of his grandfather, Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale...
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  • is otherwise rural. The most important building in the parish was Holmcultram Abbey part of which has been converted into a parish church, and other parts...
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  • Christian of Whithorn (category Burials at Holmcultram Abbey)
    Christian of Whithorn was Bishop of Whithorn (1154–1186), the second incumbent of that Episcopal See since it had been resurrected by King Fergus of Galloway...
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    second occasion, the Abbot of Furness Abbey went to meet Bruce in an attempt to bribe him into sparing his Abbey and its lands from destruction. The Scottish...
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    Calder Abbey CARLISLE (see below) Cartmel Priory Chapel-le-Wood Cell Conishead Priory Dacre Abbey (prob. site) Furness Abbey Hawkshead Grange Holmcultram Abbey...
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  • barn were later altered and extended, and they are in sandstone from Holmcultram Abbey. The house has a re-used chamfered plinth with an inverted inscription...
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    Melrose that David established Newbattle Abbey in Midlothian, Kinloss Abbey in Moray, and Holmcultram Abbey in Cumberland. David also, like Alexander...
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    remaining houses were Furness Abbey, Calder Abbey, the nunnery at Seaton Priory, Shap Abbey, Conishead Priory and Calder Abbey). In addition, Scottish (Catholic)...
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    establishment of Glenluce Abbey as well as being associated with Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh and the Cumbrian abbey of Holmcultram and the priory of St Bees...
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    of a collection of various English saints' lives that belonged to Holmcultram Abbey in Abbeytown, Cumbria, and is dated to the mid-13th century. The Life...
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    approximately one-and-a-half miles to the north, to guard the vulnerable Holmcultram Abbey at Abbeytown from raids across the Solway Firth. The castle had been...
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  • Monastic houses in England include abbeys, priories and friaries, among other monastic religious houses. The sites are listed by modern (post-1974) county...
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    Scrope of Masham, Thomas, Baron Musgrave, the Abbot of Holmcultram Abbey and the Abbot of Shap Abbey. Dockray, Keith (2004). "Greystoke family (per. 1321–1487)"...
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    Melrose that David established Newbattle Abbey in Midlothian, Kinloss Abbey in Moray, and Holmcultram Abbey in Cumberland. David also, like Alexander...
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    building. The present church has been formed from part of the church of Holmcultram Abbey, a Cistercian monastery that had been founded in 1150 by King David...
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    Following the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s, records from Holmcultram Abbey in Abbeytown showed Edderside paid an annual tithe of six large baskets...
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    the house. The abbey of Holmcultram also helped the nuns. In 1459, Thomas York, abbot of Holmcultram, leased all the lands the abbey possessed between...
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    occupant. Stanley had formerly been a monk at Holmcultram Abbey in Abbeytown, but it is believed he left the abbey, perhaps fearing for his safety, after Gavin...
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  • village of Skinburness. Skinburness was founded as a market town by Holmcultram Abbey in the 13th century, but much of it was lost to erosion by the sea...
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    Grey Abbey went on to become abbots of Holmcultram. The Latin name of the abbey is Iugum Dei, which means "Yoke of God". Little is known of the abbey's history...
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  • List of monastic houses in Scotland is a catalogue of the abbeys, priories, friaries and other monastic religious houses of Scotland. In this article alien...
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    observations, or from trusted witnesses. He found in 1703 the neglected Holmcultram Abbey full of water. Charles Murray Lowther Bouch used Nicolson's records...
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  • This is a list of the abbeys, priories, friaries and other monastic religious houses in Ireland. This article provides a gazetteer for the whole of Ireland...
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    as well as Holmcultram Abbey, which was converted into a parish church following the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s. The Abbey's 900-year-old...
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