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The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines, or in Britain

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and Ireland

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as the White Canons (from the colour of their habit), are a Catholic

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religious order

Religious order

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of canons regular

Canons Regular

Canons Regular are members of certain bodies of Canons living in community under the Augustinian Rule , and sharing their property in common...

founded at Prémontré

Prémontré

Prémontré is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.-Population:-Sights:The remains of Prémontré Abbey, the mother house of the Premonstratensian Order, are located in Prémontré.-References:*...

near Laon

Laon

Laon is the capital city of the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France.-History:The hilly district of Laon, which rises a hundred metres above the otherwise flat Picardy plain, has always held strategic importance...

in 1120 by Saint Norbert

Norbert of Xanten

Saint Norbert of Xanten was a Christian saint and founder of the Norbertine or Premonstratensian order of canons regular.- Life and work :...

, who later became Archbishop of Magdeburg. Premonstratensians are designated by O.Praem (Ordo Praemonstratensis) following their name.

Saint Norbert had made various efforts to introduce a strict form of canonical life in various communities of canons in Germany

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; in 1120 he was working in the now-extinct Diocese of Laon, in the Picardy

Picardy

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province of northeastern France

France

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. There, in a rural place called Prémontré, he and thirteen companions established a monastery to be the cradle of a new order. As they were canons regular, they followed the Rule of St. Augustine

Rule of St. Augustine

The Rule of St. Augustine is a religious rule employed by a large number of orders, including the Dominicans, Servites, Mercederians, and Augustinians.-Overview:...

, but with supplementary statutes that made their life one of great austerity. Norbert was a friend of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian order.After the death of his mother, Bernard sought admission into the Cistercian order. Three years later, he was sent to found a new abbey at an isolated clearing in a glen known as the Val...

and so was largely influenced by the Cistercian ideals as to both the manner of life and the government of his order. As the Premonstratensians are not monk

Monk

A monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of monks, while always maintaining some degree of physical separation from those not sharing the same purpose...

s but canons regular

Canons Regular

Canons Regular are members of certain bodies of Canons living in community under the Augustinian Rule , and sharing their property in common...

, their work often involves preaching and the exercising of pastoral ministry; they frequently serve in parishes close to their abbeys or priories.

History

The Order was founded in 1120. In 1126, when it received papal approbation

Approbation

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by Pope Honorius II

Pope Honorius II

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, there were nine houses; others were established in quick succession throughout western Europe, so that at the middle of the fourteenth century there were some 1,300 monasteries for men and 400 for women. The Norbertines played a predominant part in the conversion of the Wends

Wends

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and the bringing of Christianity

Christianity

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to the territories around the Elbe

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and the Oder

Oder

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rivers. In time mitigations and relaxations emerged, and these gave rise to reforms and semi-independent congregations within the Order. The Norbertines came to England about 1143, first at Newhouse in Lincoln

Lincoln, Lincolnshire

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, and before the dissolution under Henry VIII

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there were 35 houses. Soon after their arrival in England, they founded Dryburgh Abbey

Dryburgh Abbey

Dryburgh Abbey, near Dryburgh on the banks of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders, was nominally founded on 10 November 1150 in an agreement between Hugh de Morville, Lord of Lauderdale and Constable of Scotland, and the Premonstratensian canons regular from Alnwick Abbey in Northumberland...

in the Borders area of Scotland

Scotland

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, which was followed by other communities at Whithorn Priory

Whithorn Priory

Whithorn Priory is located in Wigtownshire, Galloway. It was founded about the middle of the twelfth century, in the reign of David I, by Fergus, Lord of Galloway, with Gille Aldan, Bishop of Galloway, for Premonstratensian Canons, referred colloquially in Britain as the White Canons.The canons of...

, Dercongal Abbey

Dercongal Abbey

Dercongal Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastic community located in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The date of its foundation is not known, but it was certainly in existence as a Premonstratensian monastic community by 1225. The founder was presumably Alan, Lord of Galloway...

and Tongland Abbey

Tongland Abbey

Tungland or Tongland Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastic community located in Galloway. It was probably founded in 1218 by Alan, Lord of Galloway, although the church of Tongland had previously been granted to Dercongal Abbey by his grandfather Uchtred in the early 1160s. Few of its early abbots...

all in the Borders area, as well as Fearn Abbey

Fearn Abbey

Fearn Abbey - known as "The Lamp of the North" - has its origins in one of Scotland's oldest pre-Reformation church buildings. Part of the Church of Scotland and located to the southeast of Tain, Ross-shire, it continues as an active parish church .The original Fearn Abbey was established in either...

in the northern part of the nation.

By the beginning of the nineteenth century the order had become almost extinct, only eight houses surviving, all in Austria

Austria

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. However, there was something of a resurgence, and at the start of the twentieth century there were 20 monasteries and 1,000 priests. , the number of monasteries had increased to nearly 100 and spread to every continent. In the twenty-first century, like all Canons Regular

Canons Regular

Canons Regular are members of certain bodies of Canons living in community under the Augustinian Rule , and sharing their property in common...

they follow the Augustinian Rule. According to the Premonstratentian website, there are some 1,000 male and 200 female members of the Order.

Canonesses

The Order has several abbeys (usually called convents) of women who, though technically called canonesses, are more commonly termed Norbertine Sisters. Like the Norbertine communities for men, those for women are autonomous. Unusually, within the religious communities of the Catholic Church, the Norbertine Order has always seen the spiritual life of the sisters as being on an equal footing with that of its priests and brothers. In the Middle Ages

Middle Ages

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the Premonstratentians even had a few communities where men and women lived in abbeys located next to each other, the communities demonstrating their unity by sharing the church building. Today, it is common for a foundation of canonesses to have links not only with other canonesses, but also a community of canons.
On January 29, 2011, the sisters' canonry of the Bethlehem Priory of St. Joseph was established with the solemn profession of the first nine canonesses at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Fresno, California. The Priory is located in Tehachapi, California and currently counts 20 members in all. The community was first founded as a public association of the faithful by the Norbertine canons of St. Michael's Abbey, Orange County,California. It is the first canonry of Norbertine canonesses founded in North America.

Premonstratensian Rite

The Premonstratensians were among the religious orders with their own rite who kept this rite after Pope Pius V

Pope Pius V

Pope Saint Pius V , born Antonio Ghislieri , was Pope from 1566 to 1572 and is a saint of the Catholic Church. He is chiefly notable for his role in the Council of Trent, the Counter-Reformation, and the standardization of the Roman liturgy within the Latin Church...

suppressed such rites with a continuous tradition of less than two hundred years. The Premonstratensian Rite was especially characterized by a ritual solemnity. The Premonstratensian Rite was also characterized by an emphasis on the Paschal Mystery

Paschal Mystery

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unique among the Latin rites. This was especially seen in the solemnity with which the daily conventional high mass and office was celebrated during the Easter octave, especially vespers which concluded with a procession to the baptismal font, a practice paralleled among the Latin rites only in similar processions still found in the Ambrosian Rite

Ambrosian Rite

Ambrosian Rite, also called the Milanese Rite, is a Catholic liturgical Western Rite. The rite is named after Saint Ambrose, a bishop of Milan in the fourth century...

. Another unique practice of the Premonstratenian Rite was the celebration of a daily votive mass in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary in each of its abbeys and priories.

Structure

As each abbey or priory is autonomous, practices and apostolates differ; some are contemplative in character whilst others are highly active in pastoral ministry. However, each is guided by the Rule of Saint Augustine as well as the Constitutions established by the General Chapter which is held every 6 years. Demonstrating Norbertine unity, the general Chapter includes representatives from both male and female communities. The head of the Order, termed Abbot

Abbot

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General, resides in Rome

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, and he is assisted in his duties by the Definitors (High Council) as well as commissions established for various aspects of the Order's life such as Liturgy and inter-abbey communications.

As of 2008, there were Premonstratensian abbeys or priories throughout the world: Australia

Australia

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, Austria

Austria

, Belgium

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, Brazil

Brazil

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, Canada

Canada

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, Chile

Chile

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, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo

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, Denmark

Denmark

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, France

France

, Germany

Germany

, Hungary

Hungary

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, India

India

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, Ireland

Ireland

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, Italy

Italy

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, Netherlands

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, Peru

Peru

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, Poland

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, Romania

Romania

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, Slovakia

Slovakia

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, South Africa

South Africa

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, Spain

Spain

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

and USA.

Famous Premonstratensians

Robert J. Cornell (1919–2009), Democratic
Democratic Party (United States)
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U.S. Congressman
United States Congress
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from Wisconsin
Wisconsin
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from 1975–1979 and professor of political science
Political science
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at St. Norbert College
St. Norbert College
St. Norbert College is a private Catholic liberal arts college in De Pere, Wisconsin. Founded in October 1898 by Abbot Bernard Pennings, a Norbertine priest and educator, the school was named after Saint Norbert of Xanten. In 1952, the college became coeducational and today enrolls about 2,175...

.
Astrik L. Gabriel (1907–2005), director of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame
University of Notre Dame
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from 1952 to 1975.
Fr. Alfred McBride ordained 1953, founder and executive director of the department of religious education at the National Catholic Educational Association, author of forty books on the Bible, history of the Mass, etc.
Johann Zahn
Johann Zahn
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(1631–1707), German
Germany
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canon
Canon (priest)
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who wrote on the camera obscura
Camera obscura
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and who invented an early camera
Camera
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.
Werenfried van Straaten
Werenfried van Straaten
Father Werenfried van Straaten O.Praem. who came to be known as the "Bacon Priest", was a Premonstratensian priest known for his humanitarian work, particularly as founder of the international Catholic association Aid to the Church in Need...

(1913–2003), known for his humanitarian work, particularly as founder of the international Catholic association Aid to the Church in Need
Aid to the Church in Need
' describes itself as "an international pastoral aid organization of the Catholic Church, which yearly offers financial support to more than 5,000 projects worldwide...

.
Prokop Diviš, inventor
Brendan Smyth, child abuser.

Austria

Stift Geras
Geras Abbey
Geras Abbey is a Premonstratensian monastery in Geras in Lower Austria. Since 1783 it has also owned the premises of the former Pernegg Abbey nearby.-History:...

http://www.stiftgeras.at/, Lower Austria
Stift Griffen
Griffen, Austria
Griffen is a town in the district of Völkermarkt in Carinthia in Austria, home to the Griffen Abbey. It is the birthplace of Austrian writer Peter Handke....

, Carinthia, dissolved
Stift Pernegg
Geras Abbey
Geras Abbey is a Premonstratensian monastery in Geras in Lower Austria. Since 1783 it has also owned the premises of the former Pernegg Abbey nearby.-History:...

http://www.stiftgeras.at/, Lower Austria, dissolved
Stift Schlägl
Schlägl
Schlägl is a municipality in the district of Rohrbach in Upper Austria, Austria.-References:...

http://www.stift-schlägl.at/, Upper Austria
Stift Wilten http://www.stift-wilten.at/, Tyrol

Belgium

Averbode Abbey
Averbode Abbey
Averbode Abbey is a Premonstratensian monastery situated near Diest , in the Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels in Belgium.-1134-1800:Averbode Abbey was founded about 1134-1135 by Count Arnold II of Loon...

, Belgium
Cornillon Abbey
Cornillon Abbey
Cornillon Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastery which occupied a site close to Liège in Belgium. In 1288 the abbey having moved to a new location, it became known as Beaurepart Abbey...

, Belgium
Floreffe Abbey
Floreffe Abbey
Floreffe Abbey is a former Premonstratensian monastery, the second of the order to be founded, situated on the Sambre at Floreffe, about 11 km southwest of Namur, Belgium.-History:...

, Belgium
Grimbergen Abbey
Grimbergen Abbey
Grimbergen Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastery in Grimbergen, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, established in 1128 in the place of an earlier foundation of Augustinian Canons....

, Belgium
Heylissem Abbey, Belgium
Park Abbey
Park Abbey
Park Abbey is a Premonstratensian abbey in Belgium, at Heverlee just south of Leuven, in Flemish Brabant.The Annales Parchenses were written here in the 12th century.-History:...

, Belgium
Postel Abbey
Postel Abbey
Postel Abbey is a Premonstratensian abbey in the Belgian municipality of Mol in the province of Antwerp.-History:In 1138 Premonstratensian canons from Floreffe Abbey founded the monastery at Postel as a dependent priory. In 1613 Postel became independent of Floreffe and in 1618 was raised to the...

, Belgium
Tongerlo Abbey
Tongerlo Abbey
Tongerlo Abbey is a Premonstratensian monastery at Tongerlo in Westerlo near Antwerp, Belgium.-History:It was founded in 1128 in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Giselbert of Kasterlee, who not only gave the land, but also himself became a lay brother in the new community. The first monks were...

, Belgium

Czech Republic

Hradisko Abbey, Olomouc
Olomouc
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, Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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Chotěšov Abbey
Chotešov Abbey
Chotěšov Abbey is a former Premonstratensian nunnery in Chotěšov, about 18 kilometres southwest of Pilsen in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic.-Premonstratensian nunnery:...

, Czech Republic
Strahov Abbey, Czech Republic
Teplá Abbey
Teplá Abbey
Teplá Abbey is a Premonstratensian abbey in the western part of Bohemia, included in the Archdiocese of Prague; it was founded in 1193 by the blessed Hroznata, a Bohemian nobleman...

, Czech Republic
Louka Abbey, Znojmo
Znojmo
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, Czech Republic
Czech Republic
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Germany

All Saints' Abbey
All Saints' Abbey (Baden-Württemberg)
All Saints' Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastery near Oppenau in the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.-History:...

, dissolved, Germany
Hamborn Abbey
Duisburg
- History :A legend recorded by Johannes Aventinus holds that Duisburg, was built by the eponymous Tuisto, mythical progenitor of Germans, ca. 2395 BC...

(North Rhine-Westphalia), Germany
Lorsch Abbey
Lorsch Abbey
The Abbey of Lorsch is a former Imperial Abbey in Lorsch, Germany, about 10 km east of Worms, one of the most renowned monasteries of the Carolingian Empire. Even in its ruined state, its remains are among the most important pre-Romanesque–Carolingian style buildings in Germany...

, dissolved, Germany
Obermarchtal Abbey
Marchtal Abbey
Marchtal Abbey is a former Premonstratensian monastery in Obermarchtal in the Alb-Donau-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The minster church of Saints Peter and Paul, the former abbey church, located on a prominent elevation, still dominates the landscape for miles around.-First foundation:In 776...

, dissolved, Germany
Pöhlde Abbey
Pöhlde Abbey
Pöhlde Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastery at Pöhlde, now a small village and part of the town of Herzberg am Harz, in Lower Saxony, Germany.-History:...

, dissolved, Germany
Schussenried Abbey
Schussenried Abbey
Schussenried Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastery in Bad Schussenried, Upper Swabia, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.- History :...

, dissolved, Germany
Speinshart Abbey
Speinshart
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(Bavaria), Germany
Steingaden Abbey
Steingaden Abbey
Steingaden Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastery in Steingaden in Bavaria, Germany.-History:Dedicated to John the Baptist, the abbey was founded in 1147 as a Premonstratensian house by Welf VI, third son of Henry the Black, Duke of Bavaria, and brother of Duke Henry the Proud...

, dissolved, Germany
Roggenburg Abbey
Roggenburg Abbey
Roggenburg Abbey is a Premonstratensian canonry in Roggenburg near Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, in operation between 1126 and 1802, and again from its re-foundation in 1986. Since 1992 it has been an independent priory of Windberg Abbey in Lower Bavaria...

(Bavaria), Germany
Rot an der Rot Abbey
Rot an der Rot Abbey
Rot an der Rot Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastery in Rot an der Rot in Upper Swabia, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It was the first Premonstratensian monastery in the whole of Swabia...

, dissolved, Germany
Weissenau Abbey
Weissenau Abbey
- References : Binder, Helmut , 1995. 850 Jahre Prämonstratenserabtei Weissenau. 1145–1995. Sigmaringen: Thorbecke. ISBN 3-7995-0414-1 Eitel, Peter , 1983. Weissenau in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Festschrift zur 700-Jahrfeier der Übergabe der Heiligblutreliquie durch Rudolf von Habsburg an die...

, dissolved, Germany
Windberg Abbey
Windberg Abbey
Windberg Abbey is a Premonstratensian monastery in Windberg in Lower Bavaria, Germany.-First foundation:Windberg Abbey was founded by Count Albert I of Bogen with the assistance of Bishop Otto of Bamberg on the site of the original seat of the Counts of Bogen...

(Bavaria), Germany

Hungary

Csorna Abbey, Hungary
Gödöllő Canonry, Hungary
Keszthely Abbey, Hungary
Türje Abbey, Hungary

Ireland

Annaghdown Abbey
Annaghdown Abbey
Annaghdown Abbey is a ruined house of the Arroasian canons in the townland of Annaghdown in County Galway, Ireland. The site was probably founded by Turlough O'Conor c. 1140 and was dissolved after the reformation in 1562...

, Ireland
Ballineval Abbey, Ireland
Druim la Croix (White Abbey), Ireland
Holy Trinity Abbey, Ireland
Kilnamanagh Abbey, Abbeytown, Galway, Ireland
Lough Key Abbey, Ireland
Tuam Abbey, Ireland
Holly Trinity Priory, Attymass, Co Mayo Ireland

Slovakia

Premonstratensian Monastery in Jasov, Slovakia (http://www.jasov.sk/index.php?page=premonstratsky-klastor http://slovakia-travelguide.info/jasov.html )

Spain

Monastery of Santa María de los Huertos, (Segovia), Spain
Monastery of Santa María la Real in Aguilar de Campoo
Monastery of Santa María la Real in Aguilar de Campoo
Santa María la Real is a monastery in Aguilar de Campoo, province of Palencia, Spain.Santa María la Real is a common name for monasteries in Spain, and indicates a royal connection, in this case to King Alfonso VIII of Castile....

, Aguilar de Campoo
Aguilar de Campoo
Aguilar de Campoo is a town in the province of Palencia, autonomous community of Castile and León, Spain. It is close to the River Pisuerga.-History:In 1255 Alfonso X the Wise declared it Villa Realenga...

(Palencia), Spain

Sweden

Monastery of Bäckaskog, (Skåne), Sweden (Denmark in 13.th century)
Monastery of Östra Tommarp, (Skåne), Sweden (Denmark in 12.th century)
Monastery of Övedskloster, (Skåne), Sweden (Denmark in 12.th century)
Monastery of Dragsmark
Dragsmark Abbey
Dragsmark Abbey was a Premonstratensian canonry in Båhuslen, formerly Norway, now Bohuslän, Sweden.-History:The monastery at Dragsmark, also known as "Marieskog" in Norwegian, was founded some time before 1260, with the support of King Håkon Håkonsson, and was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin...

, Bohuslän
Bohuslän
' is a Swedish traditional province, or landskap, situated in Götaland on the northernmost part of the country's west coast. It is bordered by Dalsland to the northeast, Västergötland to the southeast, the Skagerrak arm of the North Sea to the west, and the county of Østfold in Norway to the north...

, Sweden (Norway in 13.th century)
Monastery of Vä
Vä
Vä is a former town in Scania, now a village in the municipality of Kristianstad, ca 5 km south west of the town of Kristianstad. The name stems from the old danish word wæ, meaning cult place or holy ground....

, Scania
Scania
Scania is the southernmost of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden, constituting a peninsula on the southern tip of the Scandinavian peninsula, and some adjacent islands. The modern administrative subdivision Skåne County is almost, but not totally, congruent with the...

, Sweden (Denmark in 12.th century)

Switzerland

Bellelay Abbey
Bellelay Abbey
Bellelay Abbey is a former Premonstratensian monastery in the Bernese Jura in Switzerland, now a psychiatric clinic.-History:According to the legend, the monastery was founded in 1136 by Siginand, prior of the abbey of Moutier-Grandval, who got lost in the deep forest of the High Jura while hunting...

(Abbaye de Bellelay), Bellelay
Bollingen Priory (Kloster Bollingen), Bollingen
Bollingen
Bollingen is a village within the municipality of Rapperswil-Jona in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.- Geography :The village is located along the northern shore of the upper Lake Zurich between Jona and Schmerikon...
Fontaine-André Abbey, Neuchâtel
Gottstatt Abbey, Orpund
Orpund
Orpund is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.-Geography:Orpund has an area, , of . Of this area, or 39.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 37.4% is forested...
Grandgourt Abbey, Grandgourt
Humilimont Abbey, Vuippens-Marsens
Lac de Joux Abbey, L'Abbaye
L'Abbaye
L'Abbaye is a municipality in the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, located in the Jura-Nord Vaudois district. It takes its name from Lac de Joux Abbey, a Premonstratensian monastery.-History:...
Mount Zion Abbey (Stift Berg Sion), Gommiswald
Gommiswald
Gommiswald is a municipality in the Wahlkreis of See-Gaster in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland.-History:Gommiswald is first mentioned in 1178 as Göycheim though this comes from a 16th Century copy of the original. In 1440 it was mentioned as Göchams gewalt...
Romainmôtier Abbey, Romainmôtier-Envy
Romainmôtier-Envy
Romainmôtier-Envy is a municipality in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois.The village lies on the Nozon river and has about 450 inhabitants. The town has a famous Romanesque church...
Rueyres Priory, Chardonne
Chardonne
Chardonne is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.-Geography:Chardonne has an area, , of . Of this area, or 46.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 37.0% is forested...
Rüti Abbey
Rüti Abbey
Rüti Abbey was a former Premonstratensian abbey, founded in 1206 and suppressed in 1525, in the municipality of Rüti in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland...

(Kloster Rüti), Rüti
St. Jacob's Abbey im Prättigau, Klosters
Klosters
Klosters-Serneus is a municipality in the district of Prättigau/Davos in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.Its well-known ski resort lies from Zurich, the nearest international airport. Transfer time is about 1.5 hours. Klosters is from Davos...

In England

Alnwick Abbey
Alnwick Abbey
Alnwick Abbey was founded as a Premonstratensian monastery in 1147 by Eustace fitz John near Alnwick, England, as a daughter house of Newhouse Abbey in Lincolnshire. It was dissolved in 1535, refounded in 1536 and finally suppressed in 1539. It was granted to the Sadler and Winnington...

, England
Barlings Abbey
Barlings Abbey
Barlings Abbey, Lincolnshire, was a Premonstratensian monastery in England, founded in 1154.-History:Its founder was Ralph de Haye, son of the constable of Lincoln Castle, and lord of Burwell and Carlton...

, England
Bayham Abbey
Bayham Old Abbey
Bayham Old Abbey is an English Heritage property, located near Frant, East Sussex, England. Founded c. 1207 through a combination of the failing Premonstratensian monasteries of Otham and Brockley, Bayham functioned as an abbey until its dissolution in the 16th century...

, England
Beauchief Abbey
Beauchief Abbey
Beauchief Abbey is a former abbey in Sheffield, England. Beauchief is prounounced bee-chiff.-History:The abbey was founded by Robert FitzRanulf de Alfreton. Thomas Tanner, writing in 1695, stated that it was founded in 1183...

, England
Beeleigh Abbey
Beeleigh Abbey
Beeleigh Abbey near Maldon in Essex, England, was a monastery constructed in 1180 for the White Canons, otherwise known as the Norbertines or Premonstratensians...

, England
Blanchland Abbey
Blanchland Abbey
Blanchland Abbey at Blanchland, in the English county of Northumberland, was founded as a premonstratensian priory in 1165 by Walter de Bolbec II, and was a daughter house of Croxton abbey in Leicestershire. It became an abbey in the late 13th century...

, England
Cockersand Abbey
Cockersand Abbey
Cockersand Abbey is a former abbey near Cockerham in the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England. It was founded before 1184 as the Hospital of St Mary on the marsh belonging to Leicester Abbey. It was refounded as a Premonstratensian priory and subsequently elevated to an abbey in 1192...

, England
Coverham Abbey
Coverham Abbey
Coverham Abbey, North Yorkshire, England was a Premonstratensian monastery originally founded at Swainby in 1190 by Helewisia, daughter of the Lord Chief Justice Ranulf de Glanville...

, England
Croxton Abbey
Croxton Abbey
Croxton Abbey, near Croxton Kerrial, Leicestershire, was a Premonstratensian monastery founded before 1160 by William, Count of Boulogne.Croxton was the mother house of the monasteries of Blanchland Abbey in County Durham and Cockersand Abbey in Lancashire....

, England
Dale Abbey
Dale Abbey
Dale Abbey is a village and civil parish in the borough of Erewash in Derbyshire in the East Midlands of England, 6 miles north east of Derby....

, England
Durford Abbey, England
Easby Abbey
Easby Abbey
Easby Abbey or the Abbey of St Agatha is an abandoned Premonstratensian abbey on the eastern bank of the River Swale on the outskirts of Richmond in the Richmondshire district of North Yorkshire. The site is maintained by English Heritage and can be reached by a pleasant riverside walk from...

, England
Egglestone Abbey
Egglestone Abbey
Egglestone Abbey is an abandoned Premonstratensian Abbey on the eastern bank of the River Tees, 1½ miles south-east of Barnard Castle in County Durham, England, at...

, England
Hagnaby Abbey
Hagnaby Abbey
Hagnaby Abbey was an abbey and former priory in Hagnaby, Lincolnshire, England.Originally founded as a house for Premonstratensian canons around 1175, by Agnes, widow of Herbert de Orreby, the priory was a dependency of Welbeck Abbey and named in honour of Saint Thomas the Martyr.It achieved its...

, England
Halesowen Abbey
Halesowen Abbey
Halesowen Abbey was an abbey in Halesowen, England of which only ruins remain. It was located in an exclave of the historic county of Shropshire until 1844...

, England
Langley Abbey
Langley Abbey
Langley Abbey was an abbey in Norfolk, England.There are remains of the church and barn as well as earthworks of other buildings and fish ponds. The site was partially restored and opened to the public to a museum in 2010....

, England
Lavendon Abbey
Lavendon Abbey
Lavendon Abbey was a Premonstratensian abbey in Buckinghamshire, England. It was established in the 1150s and was dissolved in 1536....

, England
Leiston Abbey
Leiston Abbey
Leiston Abbey, in Suffolk, England, was formerly known as St Mary's Abbey. It was founded in 1182 at Minsmere by Ranulf de Glanville, Lord Chief Justice to Henry II...

, England
Newbo Abbey
Newbo Abbey
Newbo Abbey was a Premonstratensian house of canons regular in Lincolnshire, England, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.Newbo was founded in about 1198 very close to Sedgebrook by Richard de Malebisse or Malbis...

, England
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....

, Lincolnshire, England
Our Lady of England Priory
Our Lady of England Priory
Our Lady of England Priory in Storrington, West Sussex, England is home to Roman Catholic priests belonging to a Community of Canons Regular of Prémontré, after the place where they were founded in France in 1121. The priests are also known as Norbertines after Norbert of Xanten, the Founder of...

http://www.norbertines.co.uk/, Storrington, England (current house)
St Chad's Priory, Manchester, England (current house)
St. Radegund's Abbey
St. Radegund's Abbey
St. Radegund's Abbey was an abbey in the parish of Hougham Without near Dover in southeast England....

, England
Shap Abbey
Shap Abbey
Shap Abbey was a monastic religious house of the Premonstratensian order on the western bank of the River Lowther in the civil parish of Shap Rural, around from the village of Shap, in the Eden District of Cumbria, England...

, England
St. Philip's Priory
St. Philip's Priory
St. Philip's Priory situated on New London Road in Chelmsford, Essex, UK is a Premonstratensian priory of canons regular. It is dedicated to Our Lady Queen of Martyrs and St. Philip Benizi....

http://www.praemonstratensis.co.uk/, Chelmsford, England (current house)
Sulby Abbey, England
Titchfield Abbey
Titchfield Abbey
Titchfield Abbey is a medieval abbey and later country house, located in the village of Titchfield near Fareham in Hampshire, England. The abbey was founded in 1222 for Premonstratensian canons, an austere order of priests...

, England
Torre Abbey
Torre Abbey
Torre Abbey is a historic building and art gallery in Torquay, Devon, which lies in the South West of England. It was founded in 1196 as a monastery for Premonstratensian canons, and is now the best-preserved medieval monastery in Devon and Cornwall...

, England
Tupholme Abbey
Tupholme Abbey
Tupholme Abbey was a Premonstratensian abbey close to the River Witham some 17 km east of the city of Lincoln, England. It was founded between 1155 and 1165 by Gilbert and Alan de Neville. An abbot and twelve canons were sent from Newsham Abbey, also in Lincolnshire, to found Tupholme...

, England
Welbeck Abbey
Welbeck Abbey
Welbeck Abbey near Clumber Park in North Nottinghamshire was the principal abbey of the Premonstratensian order in England and later the principal residence of the Dukes of Portland.-Monastic period:...

, England
Wendling Abbey, England
West Langdon Abbey
West Langdon Abbey
West Langdon Abbey was a Premonstratensian abbey situated near West Langdon, Kent. The visible remains of the abbey are now confined to the extensive cellaring below the 16th century house that occupies its site and small remains of a 12th century Ice House ....

Scotland

Dercongal Abbey
Dercongal Abbey
Dercongal Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastic community located in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. The date of its foundation is not known, but it was certainly in existence as a Premonstratensian monastic community by 1225. The founder was presumably Alan, Lord of Galloway...

, Scotland
Dryburgh Abbey
Dryburgh Abbey
Dryburgh Abbey, near Dryburgh on the banks of the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders, was nominally founded on 10 November 1150 in an agreement between Hugh de Morville, Lord of Lauderdale and Constable of Scotland, and the Premonstratensian canons regular from Alnwick Abbey in Northumberland...

, Scotland
Fearn Abbey
Fearn Abbey
Fearn Abbey - known as "The Lamp of the North" - has its origins in one of Scotland's oldest pre-Reformation church buildings. Part of the Church of Scotland and located to the southeast of Tain, Ross-shire, it continues as an active parish church .The original Fearn Abbey was established in either...

, Scotland
Soulseat Abbey
Soulseat Abbey
Saulseat or Soulseat Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastic community located in Wigtownshire, Galloway, in the Gaelic-speaking south-west of Scotland. It was regarded as the first and the senior Premonstratensian house in the Kingdom of Scotland...

, Scotland
Tongland Abbey
Tongland Abbey
Tungland or Tongland Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastic community located in Galloway. It was probably founded in 1218 by Alan, Lord of Galloway, although the church of Tongland had previously been granted to Dercongal Abbey by his grandfather Uchtred in the early 1160s. Few of its early abbots...

, Scotland
Whithorn Priory
Whithorn Priory
Whithorn Priory is located in Wigtownshire, Galloway. It was founded about the middle of the twelfth century, in the reign of David I, by Fergus, Lord of Galloway, with Gille Aldan, Bishop of Galloway, for Premonstratensian Canons, referred colloquially in Britain as the White Canons.The canons of...

, Scotland

USA

Daylesford Abbey http://www.daylesford.org/, Pennsylvania, USA
Saint Michael's Abbey
St. Michael's Abbey (Orange County, California)
Saint Michael's Abbey is a monastery of Roman Catholic Canons Regular of the Order of Premontre in Silverado, Orange County, California.The members of the community combine a monastic-style life with the active ministry of ordained priests....

http://www.stmichaelsabbey.com/, California, USA
Saint Norbert Abbey http://www.norbertines.org/, Wisconsin, USA
Santa María de la Vid Priory http://www.norbertinecommunity.org/, New Mexico, USA

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