Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland is in Blanchland, Northumberland [Map], Abbeys in England.
The village of Blanchland [Map] composed of buildings of the Abbey including its Gatehouse.
Medieval Grave Slabs at Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map].
1165. Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map] was founded as a premonstratensian priory in 1165 by Walter de Bolbec II [aged 25] as a daughter house of Croxden Abbey, Staffordshire [Map]. It became an abbey in the late 13th century.
Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map].
In 1539 Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map] was dissolved and granted to the Bellow and Broxholm families. It was later acquired by the Radclyffe family from whom it passed by marriage to Nicholas Forster. Part of the abbey church was altered and retained for use as the parish church, and the abbots' former residence became the manor house.
Around 10th August 1607 Jane Radclyffe of Blanchland [aged 56] died. Claudius Forster 1st Baronet [aged 32] inherited Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map].
Around 1623 Claudius Forster 1st Baronet [aged 48] died without issue at Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map]. He was buried at St Aidan's Church, Bamburgh [Map]. Baronet Forster of Bamburgh extinct. His brother John Forster [aged 46] inherited his estates including Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map].
Before 1625. Arms of King James I of England and Ireland and VI of Scotland [aged 58] at Blanchland Abbey, Northumberland [Map].