Cormeilles Abbey was a Benedictine

Benedictine

Benedictine refers to the spirituality and consecrated life in accordance with the Rule of St Benedict, written by Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century for the cenobitic communities he founded in central Italy. The most notable of these is Monte Cassino, the first monastery founded by Benedict...

 monastery in Normandy

Normandy

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. Cormeilles

Cormeilles, Eure

Cormeilles is a commune in the Eure department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Population:The inhabitants are called Cormeillais.-Geography:...

 is now in Eure

Eure

Eure is a department in the north of France named after the river Eure.- History :Eure is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790...

; the abbey was in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles

Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles

Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles is a commune in the Eure department in Haute-Normandie in northern France.-Population:-References:*...

. The buildings are now completely destroyed.

Foundation

William FitzOsbern was buried there in 1071, and according to Ordericus Vitalis it was one of two religious foundations he established on his estates. The foundation was around the year 1060, and FitzOsbern endowed it richly with lands in England, after the Norman Conquest.

Priories

Chepstow Priory was dependent on Cormeilles, Chepstow

Chepstow

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 having been one of FitzOsbern's grants. A cell

Cell church

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 from Cormeilles also created Newent Priory

Newent Priory

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, at Newent

Newent

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 in Gloucestershire

Gloucestershire

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. Another priory was at Shirehampton

Shirehampton

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Later history

The abbey had fallen into disrepair by the fifteenth century. After a series of partial reconstructions, it was suppressed in 1779.