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During the Middle Ages, Corrodians were in essence pensioners who lived in monasteries or nunneries. They were usually well-to-do elderly lay people who paid or were sponsored for accommodation[1] and food for the rest of their lives.[2] The stipend itself was known as the Corrody.[3]

This payment might be in cash but would more usually be by donating land to the abbey in question. If they were men with no heirs, the whole estate could be granted to the abbey; otherwise they might 'retire' from the running of their estates and leave that to their heirs, but apportion a part that was not entailed for the abbey.[citation needed]

This was a way for abbeys to gain income,[4] especially in their later days in England, when their numbers were in decline so they had space to accommodate pensioners, and less money coming in as dowers from new entrants to the orders.

This system could also be used by royal families as a way of providing retirement for their servants.[5][6]

In 1468, Marham Abbey in Norwich supported three corrodians.[7]

  1. ^ University of St Andrews website, School of History, Monastic Matrix: Vocabularium
  2. ^ Gilchrist, Roberta (1995). Contemplation and Action; the Other Monasticism. Leicester University Press, a Cassell imprint from the Orion Publishing Group. ISBN 0-7185-1730-X.
  3. ^ Monastic Wales website Glossary
  4. ^ British History Online website, Clerkenwell Close area: Introduction; St Mary's nunnery site
  5. ^ English Heritage website, History of Wenlock Priory
  6. ^ Gutenberg website, Medieval English Nunneries (ed. G G Coulton, Chapter V, page pp 190, 197
  7. ^ University of St Andrews website, School of History, Monastic Matrix: Marham

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