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The Abbey of Dulce Cor, better known as Sweetheart Abbey (Gaelic: An Abaid Ur), was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1273 in what is now the village of New Abbey, in the historical county of Kirkcudbrightshire in Dumfries and Galloway, 8 miles (13 km) south of Dumfries.
The village has a wealth of history including the ruined Cistercian abbey Sweetheart Abbey, founded by Lady Dervorguilla in 1273 in memory of her husband John Balliol. She kept his embalmed heart close to her for the rest of her life. [1] The monks named the abbey dulce cor ("sweet heart"). The village has a watermill, the New Abbey Corn Mill. [2]
Sweetheart Abbey: New Abbey: Dumfries and Galloway: Founded 1273: Abbey A Cistercian monastery founded in 1275 by Dervorguilla of Galloway. [129] Dunstaffnage Chapel: Oban: Argyll and Bute: pre 1275: Chapel Adjacent to Dunstaffnage Castle. [111] [112] Balmerino Abbey: Balmerino: Fife: Completed c. 1286: Abbey Founded in 1231, badly damaged in ...
The Abbot of Sweetheart (later Commendator of Sweetheart; also Abbot of New Abbey) was the head of the Cistercian monastic community of Sweetheart Abbey, in the ancient province of Galloway in the present area of Dumfries and Galloway, founded by monks from Dundrennan Abbey with the patronage of Derbhfhorghaill inghean Ailein (a.k.a. "Dervorguilla Balliol"), Lady of Galloway, about 1275.
The council area of Dumfries and Galloway covers 6,426 square kilometres (2,481 sq mi), and has a population of around 148,600. There are 224 Category A listed buildings in the area. There are 224 Category A listed buildings in the area.
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Sweetheart Abbey, Galloway Dervorguilla of Galloway (c. 1210 – 28 January 1290) was a "lady of substance" in 13th century Scotland , the wife from 1223 of John de Balliol and mother of John I , a future king of Scotland.
One of the finest examples is Sweetheart Abbey near Dumfries, a Cistercian monastery, named after the burial of John de Balliol's heart alongside the body of his wife. [14] The period of the Wars of Independence (1296–1357) saw a large number of ecclesiastical buildings ruined, including Melrose and Jedburgh Abbeys.