Site details: Llanll?r


Home dershane Project team Project News 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: Llanll?r (Abbey) also known as: Llanllyr; Lanfer; Laller Lanter; Llanweir Order: Cistercian The abbey was founded by Rhys ap Gruffudd and originally there were about sixteen nuns. show details of standing remains Standing remains There are no standing remains of the former abbey but something of the layout of LLanll?r is known from plans of post-Dissolution buildings on the site. Over the years the abbey site has been incorporated in gardens and parks. Dedicated to: Virgin Mary Medieval Diocese: St David's Affiliated to: Strata Florida (mother-house) Lordship at foundation: Deheubarth Access: No remains above ground; the site is privately owned Main events in the history of this site pre 1197: Foundation - The house was founded before 1197 by the Lord Rhys and was under the auspices of Strata Florida. [1 source] 1284: Compensation - The nuns were awarded 40 marks as compensation for damages incurred during the Edwardian Conquest. [5 sources] c.1291: Wealth - The house was estimated to have sixty sheep, 1200 acres and £7 10s 0d from temporalities but no spiritualities. [3 sources] 1299: Litigation - Queen Margaret (Edward I's wife) acquitted the abbess of a fine for illegally felling an oak. [2 sources] c.1535: Wealth - According to the Valor Ecclesiasticus the net income of LlanllÅ·r was £57 5s 4d. [3 sources][1 archive] 1536: Survey - The site was surveyed on 29th September, in preparation for the suppression of the house. [1 source] 1537: Dissolution - The house was formally suppressed on 26 February 1537, under the 1536 Act of Suppression. [4 sources] + 5 minor events. Show minor events People associated with this site Abbesses of Llanll?r Edward I , king of England , lord of Ireland, duke of Aquitaine (compensates) Gerald of Wales; Giraldus Cambrensis , archdeacon of Brecon (commentator) Rhys ap Gruffudd , prince of Deheubarth (founder) Bibliographical sources 16 Printed sources show sources Medieval Religious Houses, England and Wales, ed. R. Neville Hadcock and David Knowles (Harlow, 1971) pp. 272, 274 Cartwright, Jane, Feminine Sanctity and Spirituality in Medieval Wales (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 2008) Cartwright, Jane, Y Forwyn Fair, Santesau a Lleianod: Agweddau ar Wyryfdod a Diweirdeb yng Nghymru'r Oesoedd Canol (University of Wales Press: Cardiff, 1999) Cartwright, Jane, 'Dead Virgins: feminine sanctity in medieval Wales', Medium Aevum, 72 (2002), pp. 1-28 Cartwright, Jane, 'The Desire to Corrupt: Convents and Community in Medieval Wales', in Medieval Women in their Communities, ed. Diane Watt (Toronto, 1997), pp. 20-48 Cartwright, Jane, 'Abbess Annes and the ape', in Monastic Wales: New Approaches ed. Janet Burton and Karen Stöber (University of Wales: Cardiff, 2013), pp. 191-207 Cooper, R., Abbeys and Priories of Wales (Swansea, 1992) p. 61 Cowley, F. G., The Monastic Order in South Wales 1066-1349 (Cardiff, 1977) Fulton, H., 'Medieval Welsh poems to nuns', Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, 21 (1991), pp. 87-112 Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis), Giraldi Cambresensis Opera, Rolls Series, 21, 8 vols, ed. J. S. Brewer, J. F. Dimock and G. F. Warner (London, 1861-1891) vol. 4, pp. 152â€“153 Gray, Madeleine, 'Preface to Cistercians in Wales and the west', Archaeologia Cambrensis, (2007), pp. 17-26 Johnston, Dafydd, 'Monastic patronage of Welsh poetry', in Monastic Wales: New Approaches, ed. Janet Burton and Karen Stöber (University of Wales: Cardiff, 2013), pp. 177-190 Palmer, Caroline; David, Pennt; and Laidlaw, Ros, Historic Parks and Gardens in Ceredigion (Ceredigion Branch, Welsh Historic Gardens Trust: Esgairdawe, 2004) pp. 60-62 Williams, David H., The Welsh Cistercians (Leominster, 2001) Williams, David H., The Cistercians in the Early Middle Ages (Leominster, 1998) Williams, David H., 'Cistercian Nunneries in Medieval Wales', CÃ®teaux: commentarii cistercienses, 26 (1975), pp. 155-174 1 On-line sources show online sources (all open in new window) RCAHMW, Coflein database - Llanllyr Nunnery, Talsarn (View website) Archival sources The National Archives, 'Decree and Order Books of the Court of Augmentations and the Augmentation Office', (Document), (View website) Related articles on Monastic Wales The Cistercians in Wales, Professor Janet Burton Who were the Cistercians?, Professor Janet Burton	Ceredigion, OS Grid:SN54215602 View site details on COFLEIN (RCAHMW database)[new window]

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