Founded by Richard Tyson when he donated a church and land holding here to a male Premonstratensian monastery Alnwick Abbey. The community is linked with the abbey of Alnwick.
The women at Guizance were dependent upon the canons of Alnwick.
Thought to be a small, poor community between 1216-20.
Cal. Charter R. III 87 (fratres et sorores de Gisnis)
Pipe Rolls 1186-87 p. 13
Reg. Palatinum Dunelomense, R. de Kellawe (Rolls Ser.) II 939, 963
Northumberland Pleas from the Curia regis and assize rolls, 1198-1272, 217, no. 655.
Calendar of the Charter Rolls,1226-1516, Volume 3:87.
termination date : Prioress 1313 : date last notice
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The history of the nunnery of Guizance is very obscure; the community was little known even to contemporaries.