Monasteries represented a source of wealth as well as prestige.

Coincidentally, the Church of the East from the 16th to the 19th centuries made the Patriarch a hereditary title, being passed down from Patriarch-uncle to nephew ; however, this move was initiated in the face of Timur's destruction of Nestorian Monasteries throughout Asia ( monks being the key source of priests and patriarchs for the Church ), in an attempt to guarantee the existence of a patriarch.

Although one eleventh-century source claims that Coenwulf's son, Cynehelm, briefly succeeded to the throne, it is more likely that Ceolwulf, Coenwulf's brother, was the next king .< ref name = Kenelm > See Alan Thacker, " Kings, Saints and Monasteries in Pre-Viking Mercia ", in Midland History, 1985, p. 8,

The music itself is skillfully written, and unusually for the time, no specific plainchant can be identified as a source ; both pieces may be freely composed, or the underlying chant may be part of the enormous lost repertory of music from the early 15th century, hence unidentifiable ( the vast majority of manuscripts of the time were destroyed in the 1530s during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries ).

The Dissolution of the Monasteries provided surplus land, resulting in a small building boom, as well as a source of stone.

Monasteries had also supplied free food and alms for the poor and destitute, and it has been argued that the removal of this and other charitable resources, amounting to about 5 % of net monastic income, was one of the factors in the creation of the army of " sturdy beggars " that plagued late Tudor England, causing the social instability that led to the Edwardian and Elizabethan Poor Laws.

Monasteries were required to spend one tenth of their income in charity to the poor ( a tithe ).

Monasteries had infirmaries to treat the monks, travelers, the poor, old, weak and sick.

The school is one of seven established, re-endowed or renamed, by King Henry VIII in 1541 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries for the education of " twenty poor boys ".

Monasteries were among the institutions of the Catholic Church swept away during the French Revolution.

Monasteries were again allowed to form in the 19th century under the Bourbon Restoration.

During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Catholic Church property and land was appropriated to the new Church of England, and monasteries ( including the one at Glasnevin ) were forcibly closed and fell into ruin.

Monasteries and episcopal seats were shrewdly awarded to elites who supported the dynasty.

There were considerable losses of manuscripts as a result of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the 16th century.

In 1220, Becket's remains were relocated from this first tomb to a shrine, in the recently completed Trinity Chapel where it stood until it was destroyed in 1538, during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, on orders from King Henry VIII.

His shrine was destroyed in the Dissolution of the Monasteries, but, unusually, his relics survived and are still interred at the site ( although they were also disinterred in the 19th century, when his wooden coffin and various relics were removed ).

During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, any remains of a monument or crypt were destroyed.

During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, the city's priory, nunnery and three friaries were closed.

Evesham Abbey and the site of de Montfort's grave were destroyed with the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the sixteenth century.

The Cistercians were adversely affected in England by the Protestant Reformation, the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII, the French Revolution in continental Europe, and the revolutions of the 18th century, but some survived and the order recovered in the 19th century.

The Gospels may have been taken from Durham Cathedral during the Dissolution of the Monasteries, ordered by Henry VIII, and were acquired in the early 17th century by Sir Robert Cotton from Thomas Walker, Clerk of the Parliaments.

The cathedral ceased to be an abbey during the Dissolution of the Monasteries when all religious houses were suppressed.

They too were buried in Faversham Abbey ; all three tombs are now lost, as a consequence of the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Oxford and Cambridge were predominantly supported by the crown and the state, a fact which helped them survive the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538 and the subsequent removal of all the principal Catholic institutions in England.

The Dissolution of the Monasteries in England took place in the political context of other attacks on the historic institutions of Western Roman Catholicism which had been under way for some time, many of them related to the Protestant Reformation in Continental Europe ; however, the religious changes in England under Henry VIII and Edward VI were of a different nature from those taking place in Germany, Bohemia, France, Scotland and Geneva.

Accordingly Parliament enacted the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act in early 1536, relying in large part on the reports of " impropriety " Cromwell had received, establishing the power of the King to dissolve religious houses that were failing to maintain a religious life ; and consequently providing for the King to compulsorily dissolve monasteries with annual incomes declared in the Valor Ecclesiasticus of less than £ 200 ( of which there were potentially 419 ); but also giving the King the discretion to exempt any of these houses from dissolution at his pleasure.

Its dissolution was made lawful by the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act and the lands of the abbey were granted to lay owners.

Monasteries, nunneries, priories were closed and the property taken by the crown ( see Chronicle of the Expulsion of the Grayfriars ).

* During the Dissolution of the Monasteries, many monastic libraries were destroyed.

After the dissolution of the Monasteries the East end of the church fell into disrepair, but the local townspeople were granted the nave as a parish church.

Changes were made at the Dissolution of the Monasteries when the Percy family took control.

At the Dissolution of the Monasteries, all monastic manors were seized by King Henry VIII.

* Dissolution of the Monasteries and historical records of some of the abbeys dissolved

These cottages are the most substantial surviving part of Gloucester College, Worcester's predecessor on the same site: this was a college for Benedictine monks, founded in 1283 and dissolved with the Dissolution of the Monasteries in about 1539.

With the subsequent Dissolution of the Monasteries, the parent abbey of Buckingham College, Crowland Abbey, was dissolved.

However, by the time Wilton Abbey was dissolved during the Dissolution of the Monasteries by King Henry VIII of England, its prosperity was already on the wane — following the seizure of the abbey, King Henry presented it and the estates to William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke ( in the 1551 creation ) in c. 1544.

The Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act of 1536, on the orders of Henry VIII, resulted in St Mary's Abbey being dissolved and its buildings demolished in 1537.

The priory was dissolved in 1536 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries and only ruins remain.

In 1538 Henry VIII dissolved the Monasteries and Abbotsbury Abbey was ruined as a condition of its sale so that its stone could be reused.

After the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII and the disestablishing of the Roman Catholic church, Glasney was dissolved and demolished in 1548 during the brief reign of Edward VI, the first Protestant Duke of Cornwall, afterwards King of England.

During the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII, the priory was dissolved and the king gave Mottisfont to a favoured statesmen, Sir William Sandys, who turned it into a country home, but rather unusually, chose not to demolish the existing priory.

It is on the site of an Augustinian priory founded in 1113 which was dissolved during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The priory was dissolved in 1538 by Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Brinkburn Priory was dissolved in 1536 after Parliament enacted the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries Act.

Ashridge Priory retained Ambrosden until the priory was dissolved in 1539 in the Dissolution of the Monasteries.