In 1226, Archbishop Walter de Gray bought property which once belonged to the Abbot of Kirkstall Abbey and the Priory of St. Andrews.

Some of these theories claim that Jesus really had a wife and children, or that a group such as the Priory of Sion has secret information about the true descendants of Jesus ; some claim that there was a secret movement to censor books that truly belonged in the Bible, etc.

It belonged to the Priory of St Frideswide, Oxford until the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

Before the Reformation, Ferryhill belonged to the Priory of Durham and was a thriving agricultural concern.

Drayton belonged to the Augustinian Priory of St. Thomas, near Stafford.

Boscobel is on land which belonged to White Ladies Priory in the Middle Ages, and at that time it was extra-parochial.

Before the Dissolution of the Monasteries, Madeley and the adjacent Little Wenlock belonged to Much Wenlock Priory.

Other notable buildings include the Nunnery, Dunster Mill, Dovecote and the Priory barn, which belonged to Dunster Priory.

The manor of Milford Barnes originally belonged to Christchurch Priory.

The monastic remains in Bedfordshire include the fine fragment of the church of the Augustinian priory at Dunstable, serving as the parish church ; Elstow Abbey near Bedford, which belonged to a Benedictine nunnery founded by Judith, niece of William the Conqueror in 1078 ; and portions of the Gilbertine Chicksands Priory and of a Cistercian foundation at Old Warden.

Either by 1146 or at least before 1178 the Grandson family supported the foundation of the Benedictine Priory of Saint-Jean, which belonged to the abbey of La Chaise-Dieu in Auvergne.

In the Middle Ages St. James ' belonged to the Augustinian Dunstable Priory.

The school opened 1996 on the site of the former Sondes Place School and it takes it name from the land on which it is situated which once belonged to Lewes Priory and was later transferred to Reigate Priory.

It was mentioned in the Domesday Book, when it belonged to Wenlock Priory.

Before the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1536 the land on which Holker stands belonged to Cartmel Priory.

Nearby locations of interest are the common with prehistoric Birkrigg stone circle, Sea Wood which once belonged to Lady Jane Grey, the Manjushri Centre at Conishead Priory and Chapel Island used as a sanctuary when crossing the sands.

The abbey was originally served by a community of Augustinian Canons Regular from Merton Priory and the layout of the original church at Holyrood, now known only from excavations, probably came from the 1125 church at the priory.

The original building was built in the 14th Century and was originally part of Ingham Priory until its destruction under Henry VIII in the 16th Century.

The Park originally included the demesne of Kilmainham Priory south of the River Liffey, but when the building of the Royal Hospital at Kilmainham commenced in 1680, the Park was reduced to its present size, all of which is now north of the river.

The hall was originally a grange and chapel built by the monks of Pontefract Priory.

The Grammar School was originally founded by Robert Pursglove, Prior of Gisborough Priory, as a charitable school for poor boys.

The Priory Church of St Mary and St Hardulph was originally a monastery founded in about AD 676 on the site of The Bulwarks, an Iron Age hill fort.

The quay was originally located here to serve the nearby Tynemouth Castle and Priory.

This building, originally part of the Dominican Priory of Black Friars, was called Cobham House prior to its purchase by the Society in 1632.

The Theatre was constructed in 1576 by James Burbage in partnership with his brother-in-law John Brayne ( the owner of the Red Lion ) on property that had originally been the grounds of the dissolved Halliwell Priory ( or Holywell ).

The Le Prieuré building was originally the priory court of the Priory of Payerne.

The 1977 Priory document claimed Saunière discovered three documents: 1 ) a genealogy of the Counts of Rhedae dated 1243 bearing the seal of Blanche of Castile, 2 ) a document of 1608 relating to François-Pierre d ' Hautpoul providing a complementary genealogy from 1240 onwards and, 3 ) a last will and testament of Henri d ' Hautpoul dated 24 April 1695 bearing the stamp and signature of the testator, adding they were originally sold by Saunière's niece Madame James to two Englishmen, Captain Ronald Stansmore and Sir Thomas Frazer of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers.

Christchurch Park was originally the grounds of the Priory of the Holy Trinity, with an area of many square miles, coming up to the medieval town walls.

By 1900 a large mansion on the Bristol Road South near St Lawrence Road called Gainsborough House, originally built in the 17th century, was renamed The Priory and became home to the Convent of our Lady of Charity housing up to twenty nuns and girls.

The school was originally built as a junior school but then was transformed into a secondary school after Grange Gate Junior School ( Which was being used as Priory School's canteen ) was built.

The parish served by the church is an extremely ancient one ; it existed as early as 1108, when it was served by the Augustinian Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate, which was also known as Christ Church, which was founded by Maud, queen at the time of King Henry I The site of the present church was originally the priory's churchyard and it is possible that the church had its origins in a cemetery chapel.

The quay was originally located here to serve the nearby Tynemouth Castle and Priory.

St Mary's church was dedicated in 1311 and was originally a parish chapel attached to Plympton Priory and is a church of more importance.

Monkseaton predates the Tyneside coastal resort of Whitley Bay, being originally recorded as land owned by the Priory of Tynemouth.

Baxterwood Priory is a monastery, originally founded at Haswell, County Durham, England by Henry Pudsey, a son of Bishop Pudsey, in the latter part of the 12th century.

At Wells, two other railways, originally independent, had approached the S & D station there ( Priory Road ).

There was originally a weir and ferry here belonging to Goring Priory, which became the property of millers who kept a flash lock.

The Priory School was originally formed in 1969 when the Lewes County Grammar School for Girls, the Lewes County Grammar School for Boys and the Lewes Secondary Modern School were amalgamated to form a comprehensive school called Priory School.

He had written to me about a dinner he had had with the Benedictine monks at St. Anselm's Priory in Washington.

He founded the Benedictine priory, now the Priory Church of St Mary, in the late 11th century.

Currently the Priory is home to a community of Benedictine nuns.

Wycliffe's contest with Owtred and William Wynham ( or Wyrinham or Binham ) of Wallingford Priory and St Albans, the Benedictine professor of theology at Oxford, were formerly unknown, as were the earlier ones with William Wadeford.

Lammana Priory was a priory on the island consisting of two Benedictine monks until 1289.

As a young man, Grimoard became a Benedictine monk in the small Priory of Chirac, near his home, which was a dependency of the ancient Abbey of St. Victor near Marseille, and he was sent there for his novitiate.

* The Priory of St. Gregory's is founded at Douai, Flanders, at this time in the Spanish Netherlands, by its first prior, Saint John Roberts, and other exiles, thus becoming the first English Benedictine house to renew conventual life after the Reformation.

* The Priory in Lesmahagow is founded by Benedictine monks.

In the 19th-century monasticism was revived in the Church of England, leading to the foundation of such institutions as the House of the Resurrection, Mirfield ( Community of the Resurrection ), Nashdom Abbey ( Benedictine ), Cleeve Priory ( Community of the Glorious Ascension ) and Ewell Monastery ( Cistercian ), Benedictine orders, Franciscan orders and the Orders of the Holy Cross, Order of St. Helena.

There are claims that he was the Canon of the Benedictine Priory of Saint Peter in Erfurt, Germany but according to John Maxson Stillman, who wrote on the history of chemistry, there is no evidence of such a name on the rolls in Germany or Rome and no mention of this name before 1600.

During the reforms of Archbishop St. Dunstan ( c909-988 ), a Benedictine abbey named Christ Church Priory was added to the cathedral.

Another English Benedictine community, the Priory of St. Edmund, which had been formed in Paris in 1615 by Dom Gabriel Gifford, later Archbishop of Rheims and primate of France, was expelled from Paris during the Revolution, and eventually took over the vacant buildings of the community of St Gregory's in 1818.

The consequent new foundations were most often Oxford University and Cambridge University colleges, instances of this include John Alcock, Bishop of Ely dissolving the Benedictine nunnery of Saint Radegund to found Jesus College, Cambridge ( 1496 ), and William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester acquiring Selborne Priory in 1484 for Magdalen College, Oxford.

The earliest known church on the present location was a travertine church which was reported under construction by Aelnoth of Canterbury, a Benedictine monk at the nearby St. Alban's Priory in 1095.

The Church of St. Mary was once the church of the Benedictine Priory, founded by Gundreda, wife of Roger de Glanville.

Wymondham Priory was relatively small, initially for some twelve Benedictine monks, but grew in influence and wealth over the coming centuries.

Boxgrove Priory, in the village of Boxgrove in Sussex, was founded in about 1066 by Robert de Haye, who in 1105 bestowed the church of St. Mary of Boxgrove upon the Benedictine Abbey of Lessay.

Portola Valley is also home to a Roman Catholic Benedictine monastery and an independent college-preparatory Roman Catholic day and boarding school, Woodside Priory School, with grades 6-12.

Bisham Priory was dissolved on 5 July 1537, but six months later, on 18 December, it was refounded as a Benedictine abbey.

This order has strong ties to Lutheran Benedictine orders in Sweden ( Östanbäck Monastery ) and in Germany ( Priory of St. Wigbert ).

Ewenny Priory, in Ewenny in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, was a monastery of the Benedictine order, founded in the 12th century.

It now houses the village's third religious community, a Priory of Roman Catholic Benedictine sisters that is a daughter community of Eichstätt in Bavaria.

Later in 1086-7, Robert Malet, William's son, founded the Benedictine Priory of St Peter, a cell of the Abbey of Bernay in Normandy.