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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.
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.
The monasteries, being landowners who never died and whose property was therefore never divided among inheritors (as happened to the land of neighboring secular land owners), tended to accumulate and keep considerable lands and properties - which aroused resentment and made them vulnerable to governments confiscating their properties at times of religious or political upheaval, whether to fund ...
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.
The Gilbertine Order of Canons Regular was founded around 1130 by Saint Gilbert in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where Gilbert was the parish priest.It was the only completely English religious order and came to an end in the 16th century at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries. [1]
The King appropriated their income, disposed of their assets, and provided for their former members and functions through a set of administrative and legal processes known as The Dissolution of the Monasteries. As a chief commissioner of the Dissolution, Layton was occupied in the east and south of England, managing the surrender of various abbeys.
Richard Whiting O.S.B (1461 – 15 November 1539) was an English monk and the last Abbot of Glastonbury.. Whiting presided over Glastonbury Abbey at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries (1536–1541) under King Henry VIII of England.