Grace Dieu Abbey, Monmouth

Daughter monasteries

No

Grace Dieu Abbey ( Gratia Dei, not to be confused with the monastery La Grâce -Dieu ( Franche -Comté ) in the department of Doubs and convent of La Grâce -Dieu ( Aunis ) in the department of Charente- Maritime) is a former Cistercian abbey in Wales. The monastery was around 5 km to the west of Monmouth in Monmouthshire (formerly Gwent ) south of Road No. B 4233 to Abergavenny. The exact location could not be located, a hypothesis takes the farming estate Parker's Dew ( corrupted from Parc Grace Dieu ) to a different one location east of the Troddi ( Trothy ) Brook, a third near the Abbey Bridge. Perhaps the abbey has been relocated in this area.

History

The abbey was founded in 1226 by efforts that had been used in 1217, founded by John, the Lord of Monmouth,. She was a daughter monastery of Dore Abbey in Herefordshire in England from the filiation of primary Abbey Mori Moon, and also the last Cistercian foundation in Wales. Located on the border between England and Wales Abbey, one of the poorest Cistercian monasteries in Britain, was destroyed in a raid by the Welsh in 1233 and the monks had to flee to the nearby White Castle. The abbey was rebuilt in 1236. They had a water mill on Troddi and a grange called Penrhos ( " Atlas of Cistercian Lands in Wales " by David H. Williams). In the Valor Ecclesiasticus, the abbey was valued in 1535 at 19 pounds. In 1536 they came to an end and fell to this. Of the buildings nothing has been preserved.