Cammeringham Priory was a priory in Cammeringham

Cammeringham

Cammeringham is a village and civil parish in the West Lindsey district of Lincolnshire, England. It lies 6 miles north of Lincoln just off the A15 near to RAF Scampton. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 123....

, Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire

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, England.

It was an Alien house granted by 1126 to the abbey of L'Essay

Lessay

Lessay is a commune in the Manche department in north-western France.-History:It was originally founded as a monastery but a town grew up around it over the years. The 10th century monastery is one of the greatest examples of Romanesque architecture in Normandy...

 in the diocese of Coutances, by Robert de Haya, with the advice of his wife Muriel, and also to the 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...

 abbey of Blanchelande in Normandy. A dispute arose between the two abbeys, which was settled in favour of Blanchelande in 1192, by William Bishop of Coutances.

The advowson

Advowson

Advowson is the right in English law of a patron to present or appoint a nominee to a vacant ecclesiastical benefice or church living, a process known as presentation. In effect this means the right to nominate a person to hold a church office in a parish...

 of the priory passed first to Alice, countess of Lancaster, and from her to Hugh le Despenser, 1st

Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester

Hugh le Despenser , sometimes referred to as "the Elder Despenser", was for a time the chief adviser to King Edward II of England....

 in 1325. Shortly afterwards it reverted to the King. In 1396 the abbot of Blanchelande sold all his rights in the house to the Cistercian abbot of Hulton in Staffordshire

Staffordshire

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At the Dissolution of the Monasteries

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...

it was granted to Robert Tyrwhitt.

Cammeringham Manor House, built around 1730, retains the now blocked-up cellars of the priory, though there is no visible evidence above ground level.