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Bordesley Abbey was a 12th-century
Bordesley Abbey was a 12th-century Cistercian
The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint B ...
abbey
An abbey is a type of monastery used by members of a religious order under the governance of an abbot or abbess. Abbeys provide a complex of buildings and land for religious activities, work, and housing of Christian monks and nuns.
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near the town of Redditch
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, in Worcestershire
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, England.
The abbey's foundation was an act of Waleran de Beaumont, Count of Meulan Waleran, Galeran, or Walram is a Germanic first name, common in the Middle Ages, that may refer to:
People
*Waleran I of Limburg (died 1082)
* Waleran the Hunter (fl. 1086)
* Walram (bishop of Naumburg) (r. 1091–1111)
*Waleran of Le Puiset (died ...
, who gave the monks of Garendon Abbey
Garendon Abbey was a Cistercian abbey located between Shepshed and Loughborough, in Leicestershire, United Kingdom.
History
Garendon was founded by Robert de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Leicester, in 1133, and was probably a daughter house of Waverley ...
in Leicestershire some more land. However, Empress Matilda
Empress Matilda ( 7 February 110210 September 1167), also known as the Empress Maude, was one of the claimants to the English throne during the civil war known as the Anarchy. The daughter of King Henry I of England, she moved to Germany as ...
laid claim to the patronage of Bordesley once Waleran surrendered to her in about 1141, thus making Bordesley a royal house.
Bordesley Abbey was once an important local ecclesiastical
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