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Home Project team Future plans Contact us Search the database Browse list of sites Browse list of orders Browse bibliography & archives Browse people Browse articles Glossary of terms Monastic Wales is not responsible for the content of external internet sites	Display site: Bassaleg (Priory) also known as: Basaleg; Basselech; Basele Order: Benedictine Bassaleg Priory was founded as a cell of Glastonbury Abbey pre 1107 when Robert of Hay granted the ancient ‘clas’ church of St Basil to the English house. show more... Standing remains Nothing now remains of the former priory which is thought to have stood near to the site of the present parish church of St Basil, Bassaleg. Dedicated to: St Basil Medieval Diocese: Llandaff Affiliated to: Glastonbury Abbey (mother-house) Lordship at foundation: Glamorgan Access: No remains Main events in the history of this site c.1100: Foundation - The foundation charter has not survived but was copied by Adam of Domerham, a monk of Glastonbury, and a thirteenth-century copy is preserved in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS R.5.33, 106v. [2 sources][1 archive] 1116: Official beginnings - The first monks arrived from Glastonbury to occupy the cell. [1 source] 1146: Dispute - The monks were involved in a dispute with the chaplain of St Gundleus over the boundaries of their parishes. [1 source] c.1175: Patronage - Hywel ab Iorwerth gave the monks lands in Rumney Moor. [1 source] 1230-1240: Spiritualities - Although it was against Canon Law for communities to lease out their spiritual holdings this was not uncommon. [2 sources] pre 1252: Dissolution - Monastic life at Bassaleg had ceased by 1252. [1 source] + 3 minor events. Show minor events People associated with this site Hywel ab Iorwerth , lord of Caerleon (benefactor) Priors of Bassaleg Robert of Hay , lord of Gwynllŵg (founder) Bibliographical sources 8 Printed sources show sources 'A Register of the Churches of the Monastery of St Peter's Gloucester' An Ecclesiastical Miscellany Pub. Of the Bristol and Glos Arch. Soc., Records Section 11 ed.David Walker, William J. Sheils, John Henry Somerset Kent(1976) pp.3-61 'Episcopal Acts and Cognate Documents relating to the Welsh Dioceses 1066-1272' 2 vols ed.J. Conway Davies(Cardiff 1946-1948) 'Medieval Religious Houses, England and Wales' ed.R. Neville Hadcock and David Knowles(Harlow 1971) pp. 52, 59 'Monasticon Anglicanum: a History of the Abbies and other Monasteries, Hospitals, Frieries, and Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with their Dependencies, in England and Wales' 6 in 8 vols ed.Sir William Dugdale, rev. J. Caley, H. Ellis, B. Bandinel(London 1817-1830) vol. 4, pp. 633-634 'Historia and Chartularium Monasterii Sancti Petri Gloucestria' Rolls Series 33 3 vols ed.W. H. Hart(London 1863-1867) Adam of Domerham, 'Historia de rebus gestis Glastoniensibus' 2 vols ed.T. Hearne(London 1727) Coplestone-Crow, B., 'The foundation of the priories of Bassaleg and Malpas in the twelfth century' Monmouthshire Antiquary 14 (1998) pp. 1-13 Cowley, F. G., 'The Monastic Order in South Wales 1066-1349' (Cardiff 1977) 1 On-line sources show online sources (all open in new window) Dugdale, Monasticon online - Bassaleg (View website) Archival sources Trinity College, Cambridge, '13th century copy of the foundation charter of Bassaleg Priory', (Document), Related articles on Monastic Wales Who were the Benedictines?, Professor Janet Burton	Gwent, OS Grid:ST27748712

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