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Sopwell Priory (also known as Sopwell Nunnery) was a Benedictine nunnery founded around 1140 on the site of an ancient hermitage in Sopwell, Hertfordshire, England. After the Dissolution, the priory was torn down and a Tudor manor house constructed in its place.

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Sopwell Priory

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Sopwell Priory (also known as Sopwell Nunnery) was a Benedictine nunnery founded around 1140 on the site of an ancient hermitage in Sopwell, Hertfordshire...

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Sopwell

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England Sopwell Priory, a ruined priory in Hertfordshire, England This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sopwell. If an internal...

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Sopwell House

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of Sopwell Priory following the dissolution of the monasteries. For the Georgian country house Sopwell Hall in North Tipperary, Ireland see Sopwell, North...

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St Albans Cathedral

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Rouen. King Henry I attended as did many bishops and nobles. A nunnery (Sopwell Priory) was founded nearby in 1140. Internally the Abbey church was bare of...

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St Albans Museums

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Hypocaust at Verulamium, St Albans' medieval Clock Tower, and the ruins of Sopwell Priory. St Albans Museum + Gallery presents the history and art of St Albans...

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St Albans

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Albans St Albans Museums St Albans (UK Parliament constituency) Sopwell Priory Sopwell House Verulam House, St Albans Verulamium Museum Chisholm, Hugh...

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Book of Saint Albans

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life. She is said to have been the Benedictine prioress of the Priory of St. Mary of Sopwell, near St Albans in Hertfordshire. She was probably born into...

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List of monastic houses in Hertfordshire

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de Pre Priory (poss. site) Sawbridgeworth Priory Sopwell Priory Standon Priory Temple Dinsley Preceptory Ware Priory Ware Friary Wormley Priory Wymondley...

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List of monastic houses in England

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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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Juliana Berners

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pedigree of the Berners family, but there is a gap in the records of the priory of Sopwell between 1430 and 1480. De Worde's edition (fol. 1496), also without...

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An Excellent Mystery

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Abbey. Lady Julian had not felt a true vocation so went instead to Sopwell Priory without taking vows. Hearing the rumors that she was 'done to death...

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Geoffrey de Gorham

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which they threatened to burn. Geoffrey endowed the nunnery at Sopwell. Markyate Priory, in Hertfordshire, was founded in 1145, in a wood which was then...

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List of country houses in the United Kingdom

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Rossway Rothamsted Manor Rye House Shaw's Corner Shendish Manor Shenley Hall Sopwell House Stocks House Theobalds House Tolmers Park Tring Park Mansion Tyttenhanger...

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Christina of Markyate

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in the Gesta Abbatum the origins of Markyate and Sopwell have been confused. There Markyate Priory is said to have arisen through occupation of the hermitage...

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List of watermills in the United Kingdom

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Pre Mill, St Albans Redbournbury Mill, Redbourn Shafford Mill, St Albans Sopwell Mill, St Albans Calbourne Mill, Calbourne Gatcome Mill, Gatcombe Lower...

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Ralph Sadler

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(died 4 April 1584) married Anne, daughter and heir of Sir Richard Lee of Sopwell, Hertfordshire Henry Sadler of Everleigh, Wiltshire, (c. 1538 – 1618),...

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List of hotels in the United Kingdom

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Watford Hanbury Manor Hunton Park Sopwell House Farringford House Hotel du Vin, Tunbridge Wells Larkfield Priory Hotel Fleur de Lis Hotel The Cartford...

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List of women in the Heritage Floor

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heraldry, and hunting, who is said to have been prioress of the Priory of St. Mary of Sopwell. Juliana of Norwich c. 1342 England Hildegarde of Bingen An...

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List of electoral wards in England by constituency

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Marshalswick North, Marshalswick South, Park Street, St Peters, St Stephen, Sopwell, Verulam. Stevenage: Bandley Hill, Bedwell, Chells, Codicote, Datchworth...

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Berners Roding

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writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting, and prioress of the Priory of St Mary of Sopwell, was born in the parish. In the 19th century Berners Roding was...

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List of townlands of County Tipperary

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Clanwilliam Solloghod-beg Tipperary Solsborough 148 Lower Ormond Nenagh Nenagh Sopwell 1,113 Lower Ormond Uskane Borrisokane Southhill 121 Upper Ormond Kilruane...

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High Sheriff of Tipperary

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1660: 1666: Thomas Sadleir of Sopwell hall 1672: Eliah Greene 1673: 1674: John Pyke or Pike 1675: Richard Moore of Clonmel 1676: 1684:...

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List of electoral wards in Hertfordshire

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Park Street (3) Redbourn (3) St Peters (3) St Stephen (3) Sandridge (2) Sopwell (3) Verulam (3) Wheathampstead (3) † † minor boundary changes in 2007 Wards...

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