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Mellifont Abbey (, literally " the big abbey "), located in County Louth, was the first Cistercian abbey to be built in Ireland.
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It was founded in the late 5th century by Saint Buithe who died around 521, and was an important centre of religion and learning until the founding of nearby Mellifont Abbey in 1142.
Meanwhile, in 1142 it had become part of outlying farmland owned by the Cistercian Abbey of Mellifont.
It passes near the ancient city of Trim, Trim Castle, the Hill of Tara ( the ancient capital of the High King of Ireland ), Navan, the Hill of Slane, Brú na Bóinne ( an archaeological site ), Mellifont Abbey, and the medieval city of Drogheda.
* Mellifont Abbey, Collon, County Louth, oldest cistercian house in Ireland est. c. 1142
It was subsequently home to Cistercian monks from Mellifont Abbey.
Following the Conspiracy of Mellifont, the monastery was made subject to Buildwas Abbey.
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Founded in 1142 on the orders of Saint Malachy, Archbishop of Armagh, Mellifont Abbey sits on the banks of the River Mattock, some ten km ( 6 miles ) north-west of Drogheda.
William of Orange used Mellifont Abbey House as his headquarters during the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
Mellifont Abbey is now a ruin.
New Mellifont Abbey is home to the Cistercian Order in County Louth and is located in Collon, a small village and townland in the south west corner of County Louth, Ireland on the N2 national primary road.
* The Boyne Valley Tourist Portal-Info on and images of Old Mellifont Abbey
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After a brief military interlude with the Norman invasion of Ireland, Knowth fell into the hands of the monks at Mellifont abbey.
* Old Mellifont Abbey-Tullyallen, Drogheda, County Louth-Ireland's first Cistercian abbey.
In 1603 the Treaty of Mellifont was agreed between the English Crown and Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone in the abbey grounds.
Mellifont and County
He settled at the monastery of Rathelmigisi ( Rathmelsigi ), identified with Mellifont in County Louth or else in Connaught.
Mellifont and Louth
While called the Synod of Kells, this important Synod was transferred to Mellifont, Co Louth, and held there in March 1152.
Mellifont and was
O ' Neill was pardoned under the terms of the Treaty of Mellifont in March 1603 and submitted to the crown.
Hugh O ' Neill's career as unquestioned leader of the O ' Neills became a series of quarrels with the English government: like many great feudal lords, he rebelled in the Nine Years ' War, was proclaimed a traitor, and ultimately submitted to the Crown at the Treaty of Mellifont in 1603.
It was colonised from Mellifont in 1161.
A subsequent abbot was deposed in 1227 after being involved in the Conspiracy of Mellifont.
An important synod was held in Mellifont in 1152 as recorded in the Annals of the Four Masters, which states that the synod was attended by bishops and kings along with the papal legate John Paparo ( Saint Malachy having died some ten years beforehand ).
Mellifont and Ireland
* March 31 – The Nine Years War ( Ireland ) is ended by the submission of Hugh O ' Neill, Earl of Tyrone, to the English Crown and the signing of the Treaty of Mellifont.
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On 30 March 1603, six days after the death of Elizabeth and the accession of James I, O ' Neill made peace with Mountjoy, signing the Treaty of Mellifont. Mountjoy continued in office with the more distinguished title of Lord-Lieutenant ( 1603 – 1604 ).
The Moore family descends from Sir Garrett Moore, a staunch friend of Hugh O ' Neill, the Great Earl of Tyrone, whose submission he facilitated, hosting the negotiations that led to the Treaty of Mellifont in 1603 and ending The Nine Years ' War.
Russell's faction prevailed, and the rebellion grew into a general revolt, which lasted through the Nine Years War and ended with the Treaty of Mellifont in 1603.
Following the Treaty of Mellifont of 1603 the new KIng James I pardoned Rory O ' Donnell and created him Earl of Tyrconnell in the Irish peerage.
By 1170, Mellifont had one hundred monks and three hundred lay brothers.
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The first community at Dyvanner (, " Manor House ") failed because of the intervention of Hugh de Mortimer, Earl of Hereford but in 1176 the Rhys ap Gruffydd of Deheubarth re-established the Abbey on land given by Cadwallon ap Madog.
Abbey and literally
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Abbey and abbey
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The term can also refer to an establishment which has long ceased to function as an abbey, in some cases for centuries ( for example, see Westminster Abbey below ).
* Abbey of Cluny, an abbey, reformed during the Middle Ages, strictly adhering to the Rule.
In 1017 Henry II also founded Michaelsberg Abbey on the Michaelsberg (" Mount St. Michael "), near Bamberg, a Benedictine abbey for the training of the clergy.
* Limburg Abbey, a ruined abbey near Bad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
In 1125, accompanied by an armed following, Pons took possession of Cluny Abbey, melted down the treasures stored in the monastery, and paid his followers, who continued to terrorise the monks and the villages dependent upon the abbey.
This 1862 painting by John Rogers Herbert depicts monks at work in the fields with an abbey ( the Trappist Mount St. Bernard Abbey ) in the background
Talley Abbey was the first Premonstratensian abbey in Wales, while Llanllyr was a Cistercian nunnery, only the second nunnery to be founded in Wales and the first to prosper.
On 17 February 1818, workmen breaking ground on the new parish church to be built on the site of the eastern choir of Dunfermline Abbey uncovered a tomb before the site of the former abbey high altar.
The site of the tomb in Dunfermline Abbey was marked by large carved stone letters spelling out " King Robert the Bruce " around the top of the bell tower, when the eastern half of the abbey church was rebuilt in the first half of the 19th century.
Originally the small settlement was controlled by abbots from the local abbey, and when the first weekly market was set up in 1107 by Henry I, he decreed that the proceeds go to Evesham Abbey.
When the abbey was destroyed in 1543 the corpse was moved to Kloster Neumünster (" New-Minster Abbey ") in Luxembourg.
The abbey complex consists of the Catacombs, The Abbey ( 17th-18th centuries ), the Colegio Viejo de San Dionisio Areopagita ( 17th century ) and the Colegio Nuevo ( 19th century ).
Otto II and his wife Theophanu enhanced the spiritual importance of the city by establishing a Benedictine Imperial abbey there: the Memleben Abbey.
Youths riding goats ( a Dionysus | Dionysiac motif in antiquity ) on 12th-century capitals from the Mozac Abbey | abbey of Mozac in the Auvergne ( region ) | Auvergne.
This abbey was later moved to Maenan, becoming the Maenan Abbey, near Llanrwst, and Llywelyn's stone coffin can now be seen in Llanrwst parish church.
In 978, Archbishop Dunstan refounded the abbey built by Augustine, and named it St Augustine's Abbey.
Cîteaux Abbey ( French: Abbaye de Cîteaux ) is a Roman Catholic abbey located in Saint-Nicolas-lès-Cîteaux, south of Dijon, France.
He recovered and agreed to give the Abbot of Fountains Abbey land at Barnoldswick in the West Riding of Yorkshire ( now in Lancashire ) on which to found a daughter abbey.
On the other side of the main road, the grade II * listed former abbey gatehouse now forms the Abbey House Museum.
Adjacent to the basilica stands an important abbey, formerly known as the Royal Abbey of St Remi.
Fields surrounding the early French Cistercian abbey of Pontigny Abbey | Pontigny
In 1999, the Trappist Koningshoeven Abbey entered into an agreement with Bavaria to take over the daily operations of the monks ' brewery within the abbey.
In 1191, monks at the abbey claimed to have found the graves of Arthur and Guinevere to the south of the Lady Chapel of the Abbey Church, which was visited by a number of contemporary historians including Giraldus Cambrensis.
This route made it difficult for the officials of Glastonbury Abbey to transport produce from their outlying estates to the abbey, and when the valley of the River Axe was in flood it backed up to flood Glastonbury itself.
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