Abbey of Dore, Cistercian monastery
Dates: Founded 1147; dissolved September 1536
Biography
Dore Abbey was a Cistercian monastery founded at Abbey Dore in 1147 by Robert de Ewyas. Its community held and administered a substantial landed estate until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
Notes / Sources
The institutional holder is entered because the sources explicitly connect the manor and estate of Dore with the abbey.
Research sources:
- C. J. Robinson, The Mansions and Manors of Herefordshire, 1873, Abbey Dore section; corroborated by the 1876-77 Abbeydore parish directory. — https://texts.wishful-thinking.org.uk/Littlebury1876/Abbeydore.html
- Wikipedia biographical reference — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dore_Abbey
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