Bruisyard Abbey

The Abbey of Bruisyard was a house of Minoresses (Poor Clares) at Bruisyard in Suffolk. It was founded from Campsey Priory on the initiative of Maud of Lancaster, assisted by her son-in-law Lionel of Antwerp, in 1364–1366.[1]

Bruisyard Hall, built out of the remains of the conventual buildings.

The foundation of a religious house at Rokes Hall in Bruisyard began a little earlier, when a small college of secular priests (four chaplains and a master, or warden) attached to Campsey Priory for the purposes of a chantry, established in 1346–1347, was moved to Bruisyard in 1354 to celebrate there in a new chapel of the Annunciation to the Virgin. At that time a full set of statutes was promulgated by Maud of Lancaster.[2]

It was following the death of her daughter Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster in 1363 that Lionel of Antwerp assisted in the refoundation of the house as a nunnery under the order of St Clare, and at that time Maud of Lancaster, who had become a canoness at Campsey, transferred to the Poor Clares and spent her last years at Bruisyard. She and her daughter Maud de Ufford were buried there.[3]

The house was suppressed on 17 February 1539.

References

'Houses of Austin nuns: Priory of Campsey', in W. Page (ed.), A History of the County of Suffolk, Vol. 2 (V.C.H., London 1975), pp. 112-115 (British History Online, accessed 8 June 2018).
D. Allen, 'A newly-discovered survival from the muniments of Maud of Lancaster's Chantry', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History XLI Part 2 (2006), pp. 151-74 (Suffolk Institute pdf).
'House of minoresses: Abbey of Bruisyard', in W. Page (ed.), A History of the County of Suffolk, Vol. 2, (London, 1975), pp. 131-32 (British History Online, accessed 19 June 2018).

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[1] 'Houses of Austin nuns: Priory of Campsey', in W. Page (ed.), A History of the County of Suffolk, Vol. 2 (V.C.H., London 1975), pp. 112-115 (British History Online, accessed 8 June 2018).

[2] D. Allen, 'A newly-discovered survival from the muniments of Maud of Lancaster's Chantry', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and History XLI Part 2 (2006), pp. 151-74 (Suffolk Institute pdf).

[3] 'House of minoresses: Abbey of Bruisyard', in W. Page (ed.), A History of the County of Suffolk, Vol. 2, (London, 1975), pp. 131-32 (British History Online, accessed 19 June 2018).