Toft Monks Priory was a priory at
Toft Monks
Toft Monks is a village and parish in Norfolk, England. It is located on the border of Norfolk and Suffolk about eleven miles southwest of Great Yarmouth and four miles north of Beccles.
In 2001, the parish is recorded as accommodating 324 peop ...
,
Beccles
Beccles ( ) is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Suffolk.OS Explorer Map OL40: The Broads: (1:25 000) : . The town is shown on the milestone as from London via the A145 and A12 roads, north-east of London as the crow fl ...
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Norfolk
Norfolk () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in East Anglia in England. It borders Lincolnshire to the north-west, Cambridgeshire to the west and south-west, and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the No ...
, England. It included
St Margarets, Toft Monks and
St Mary, Haddiscoe
Revenues from the "manor of Toft, with the tithe of 'Cerlentone' and 'Posteberies,' and the churches of those two towns" were given to
Préaux Abbey
Préaux Abbey (french: Abbaye Saint-Pierre des Préaux) was a Benedictine monastery dedicated to Saint Peter at Les Préaux, in Normandy, France.
History
The abbey was first mentioned in 833 by Saint Ansegisus, abbot of Fontenelle, but was destr ...
, in
Les Préaux,
Normandy
Normandy (; french: link=no, Normandie ; nrf, Normaundie, Nouormandie ; from Old French , plural of ''Normant'', originally from the word for "northman" in several Scandinavian languages) is a geographical and cultural region in Northwestern ...
in 1099 by
Robert of Meulan, later the first
Earl of Leicester
Earl of Leicester is a title that has been created seven times. The first title was granted during the 12th century in the Peerage of England. The current title is in the Peerage of the United Kingdom and was created in 1837.
Early creatio ...
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References
Alien houses: The priory of Toft Monks in ''A History of the County of Norfolk'': Volume 2. Ed. William Page. London: Victoria County History, 1906. pp. 464–465. British History Online. accessed 31 October 2019.
Monasteries in Norfolk
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