Weedon Beck Priory, otherwise Weedon Bec Priory, was a

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Northamptonshire Northamptonshire (; abbreviated Northants.) is a county in the East Midlands of England. In 2015, it had a population of 723,000. The county is administered by two unitary authorities: North Northamptonshire and West Northamptonshire. It is ...

, England. It was a dependency of Bec Abbey in

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, Normandy. It was established after 1126 on an estate that already belonged to the abbey in 1086. Until 1291 it was administered from another Bec dependency, Ogbourne Priory, after 1291 by Bec directly. As an alien priory it was confiscated by Henry V in 1414, and its assets were given to

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in 1462.British History Online - 'Alien houses: The priories of Weedon Beck and Weedon Pinkney (Weedon Lois)', in ''A History of the County of Northampton: Volume 2'', ed. R M Serjeantson and W R D Adkins (London, 1906), pp. 182-185
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