Maltby Preceptory was a house of the Knights Hospitaller in the village of
Maltby,
Lincolnshire
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,
England
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. There are two differing accounts regarding its history.
It was established as a house for the during the reign of
King Stephen around 1135-54 by Ranulf, Earl of Chester and included the church and Maltby, and land both there and in the villages of
Tathwell and
Rauceby.
It closed at the
dissolution of the Monasteries around 1540.
[
The Monastica Anglicanum claims it was a house of the Knights Templar and passed into the hands of the Hospitallers after the Templars were suppressed in 1312.][
]
References
Monasteries in Lincolnshire
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