Alnwick Abbey was founded as a Premonstratensian

Premonstratensian

The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines, or in Britain and Ireland as the White Canons , are a Catholic religious order of canons regular founded at Prémontré near Laon in 1120 by Saint Norbert, who later became Archbishop of Magdeburg...

 monastery in 1147 by Eustace fitz John

Eustace fitz John

Eustace fitz John was a powerful magnate in northern England during the reigns of Henry I, Stephen and Henry II. From a relatively humble background in the south-east of England, Eustace made his career serving Henry I, and was elevated by the king through marriage and office into one of the most...

 near Alnwick

Alnwick

Alnwick is a small market town in north Northumberland, England. The town's population was just over 8000 at the time of the 2001 census and Alnwick's district population was 31,029....

, England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

, as a daughter house of Newhouse Abbey

Newhouse Abbey

Newhouse Abbey, near Brocklesby, Lincolnshire, was the first Premonstratensian abbey in England, founded in 1143. The abbey was built in honour of Our Lady and St. Martial, Bishop of Limoges....

 in Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire is a county in the east of England. It borders Norfolk to the south east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south west, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire to the west, South Yorkshire to the north west, and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north. It also borders...

. It was dissolved in 1535, refounded in 1536 and finally suppressed

Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries, sometimes referred to as the Suppression of the Monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541 by which Henry VIII disbanded monasteries, priories, convents and friaries in England, Wales and Ireland; appropriated their...

 in 1539. It was granted to the Sadler and Winnington families.

Alnwick Abbey site is located just within Hulne Park

Hulne Park

Hulne Park is the only one remaining of the three parks that once surrounded Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, providing wood and meat for the table of the Percy family, the Dukes of Northumberland.It is the site of Hulne Priory....

, on the bank of the River Aln

River Aln

The River Aln runs through the county of Northumberland in England, discharging into the North Sea on the east coast of England.The river gives its name to the town of Alnwick and to the village of Alnmouth, and its source, Alnham in the Cheviot Hills...

. The only visible remnant is the impressive 14th century gatehouse.

Abbots

• Baldwin 1148-52
• Patrick 1152-67
• Richardus 1167 - post 1180
• Gilbertus 1197, + 1208
• Adam ? deposed 1208
• Galfridus, 1209
• Benedictus 1212
• Bartholomaeus 1219, 1222?
• Petrus 1224-39
• Walter ante 1245, 1246
• Reginaldus 1249-50
• Richardus? 1250
• Wilhelmus de Alnmouth 1269-75
• Thomas de Kirkeby 1283-84
• Alanus de Staunford 1289-1304
• Thomas 1310
• Joannes de Otteley 1224-39
• Joannes de Alnwick 1340-50
• Henricus de Bamburgh 1353-54
• Walter res. 1362
• Robertus de Rothbury 1362, 1364
• Walter de Heppescotes 1376, 1390
• Christophorus 1400
• Wilhelmus Kok 1404-07
• Thomas 1420
• Joannes 1437
• Wilhelmus 1457
• Thomas Alnwick 1475-90
• Patricius Calle elect. 1491- 1497
• Robert Bowman, 1497, 1502
• Georgius 1506
• Matthias Mackerell 1519-22
• Robertus 1525-30
• Roger Acton 1531
• William Harrison, 1532-40