Great Limber Priory, Limber Magna was a priory in Great Limber

Great Limber

Great Limber is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies on the A18, west of Grimsby and east of Brigg....

 (or Limber Magna), Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

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, England

England

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The manor and church of Great Limber were granted by Richard de Humet, constable of Normandy, France, and Agnes his wife, to the Cistercian abbey of Aunay in Normandy, and their charter was confirmed by King Henry II  in 1157. It is uncertain if it was a Priory

Priory

A priory is a house of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or religious sisters , or monasteries of monks or nuns .The Benedictines and their offshoots , the Premonstratensians, and the...

 or a Grange

Grange

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. The manor and church were sold by the abbot of Aunay in 1393 to the priory of St. Anne at Coventry

Coventry

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see also

• Great Limber Preceptory, Limber Magna
  Great Limber Preceptory, Limber Magna
  Great Limber Preceptory, Limber Magna was a Camera of the Knights Templar and later the Knights Hospitaller in the village of Great Limber , Lincolnshire, England....