Brewood White Ladies
Community ID: 
 
1045
 
Alternate Names: 
 
White Ladies or Boscobel
 
Town: 
 
Coventry
 
Diocese: 
 
Coventry
 
Region: 
 
Salisbury
 
Modern Location: 
 
Brewood
 
Corporate Status: 
 
Priory
 
Dedication: 
 
S. Leonard
 
Date Founded: 
 
1100-1199 (12th century)
 
Date Terminated: 
 
1538
 
Religious Order: 
 
Augustinian
 
Rule: 
 
Augustinian
 
Notable Heads: 
 

NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL (these two Joans might be the same person), NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL

 
Population Counts: 
 

There were 9 nuns in 1377, 5 in 1381, 6 in 1534 and 4 in 1538.

 
Income: 
 

In 1535 the community's net income was over 17 pounds.

 
Manuscript Sources: 
 

Cartulary Haughmond (The Cartulary of Haughmond Abbey) 48, nos. 149, 151.

 
Secondary Sources: 
 

Women Religious: The Founding of English Nunneries After the Norman Conquest; Medieval Religious Houses in England and Wales, 227; The Cistercian Nunnery of Brewood, Now White Ladies

 
Miscellaneous Information: 
 

Powell erroneously thinks this community is a Cistercian foundation dating from Henry I. Oliva thinks founded before 1135.

 
Admin. Notes: 
 

mad 6/12/97
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Contributors: 
 
Marilyn Oliva
 
Date Started: 
 
1100
 
Date Finished: 
 
1538
 
Length: 
 
637