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The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally 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 Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.
These monasteries were dissolved by King Henry VIII of England in the dissolution of the monasteries. The list is by no means exhaustive, since over 800 religious houses existed before the Reformation, and virtually every town, of any size, had at least one abbey, priory, convent or friary in it.
It can be noted that the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England - a major act which marked King Henry VIII's break with the Catholic Church - was preceded a few years before by the smaller dissolution of some English monasteries and nunneries in the wake of the Littlemore Priory scandals; this earlier dissolution had been carried on within ...
The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1535, [1] also referred to as the Act for the Dissolution of the Lesser Monasteries [4] and as the Dissolution of Lesser Monasteries Act 1535, [5] [6] was an Act of the Parliament of England enacted by the English Reformation Parliament in February 1535/36.
Their monasteries spread throughout Europe during the Middle Ages, but many were closed during the Protestant Reformation, the Dissolution of the Monasteries under King Henry VIII, the French Revolution, and the revolutions of the 18th century. Some survived and new monasteries have been founded since the 19th century.
After Henry VIII's break with the Pope and the dissolution of the monasteries, the formerly monastic cathedrals were "re-founded" with secular canons. Furthermore, a number of new dioceses were formed, using some of the largest and finest of the other dissolved monasteries as cathedrals.
Durham Priory was a Benedictine priory associated with Durham Cathedral, in Durham in the north-east of England.Its head was the Prior of Durham.It was founded in 1083 as a Roman Catholic monastery, but after Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540 the priory was dissolved and the cathedral was taken over by the Church of England.
The Suppression of Religious Houses Act 1539 [1] (31 Hen. 8.c. 13), sometimes referred to as the Second Act of Dissolution [3] or as the Act for the Dissolution of the Greater Monasteries, [4] [5] was an Act of the Parliament of England.