Amesbury Abbey
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Amesbury Abbey was a Benedictine abbey of women at Amesbury in Wiltshire, England, founded by Queen Ælfthryth in about the year 979 on what may have been the site of an earlier monastery. The abbey wa
Church of St Mary and St Melor, Amesbury
Engraving of Robert of Arbrissel effigy (now lost) at Fontevraud
Henry II, founder of the Priory
South elevation, Amesbury Abbey, c. 1900
Fontevraud Abbey
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The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near Chinon, in the former French Duchy of Anjou. It was founded in 1101 by the itineran
Amesbury Abbey
…on what may have been the site of an earlier monastery. The abbey was dissolved in 1177 by Henry II, who founded in its place a house of the Order of Fontevraud, known as Amesbury Priory. The name Amesbury Abbey is now used by a nearby Grade I listed country house built in the 1830s, currently a nursing home…
Fontevraud 3
Abbey of La Roë
Tomb effigies of King Richard I of England (right) and Queen Isabella of Angoulême (left)
Effigies of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine (left) and King Henry II of England (right)