Ashridge Priory

Ashridge Priory

Ashridge Priory was a medieval abbey of the Brothers of Penitence.

The seventeenth century historian Polydore Vergil said that Edmund (son of Richard, Earl of Cornwall who had a palace there) founded in 1283 ["according to Tanner", from the [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02672b.htm Boni Homines] article in the Catholic Encyclopedia] a monastery at Ashridge, Hertfordshire, for a rector and twenty canons of "a new order not before seen in England, and called the Boni homines". [POLYDORE VERGIL, Angl. Histor., lib. XVI (in ed. 1649, p. 402), cited in the [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02672b.htm Boni Homines] article in the Catholic Encyclopedia] It was finished in 1285.

At the foundation of the abbey the Earl of Cornwall donated, among other things, a phial of Christ's blood, in honour of which the convent adjacent to the abbey was founded. This deposit proved fruitful for the abbey and convent, as pilgrims from all over Europe flocked to see the phial of blood. The abbey grew quite wealthy as a result.Fact|date=February 2007

One such visitor was King Edward I. In 1290 he held parliament at the abbey while he spent Christmas in Pitstone.Fact|date=February 2007

However in 1538 , during the Dissolution of the Monasteries the "blood" was publicly declared to be nothing more than honey with colouring added.Fact|date=February 2007 The last rector was Thomas Waterhouse, who surrendered the house to Henry VIII. The building ceased to be used as an abbey shortly afterwards. The suppressed college was granted first to the king's sister Elizabeth Tudor. [ [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02672b.htm Boni Homines] article in the Catholic Encyclopedia] It later became the private residence of Princess Elizabeth, younger daughter of King Henry VIII. It was here that she was arrested in 1552, under suspicion of treason. [ [http://uk.encarta.msn.com/text_761555497___4/Elizabeth_I.html MSN Encarta] ]

In 1604 the priory was acquired by Sir Thomas Egerton. A descendant of his, the Duke of Bridgewater, demolished the old buildings in the 1760s [Sanecki, K.N., "Ashridge - A Living History", Phillimore & Co, 1996, ISBN 1 86077 020 7 pg 28] .

ee also

* Ashridge
* Ashridge Business School

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