Guizance
Community ID:
914
Alternate Names:
Guyzance,Gisnis, Gysnes, Guisnes, Gynes, Ghines, Gisyng, Branshallghe, S. Wilfridus de Ginis, Brainshaugh.
Town:
Durham
Diocese:
Durham
Region:
Northumberland
Medieval Location:
at Brainshaugh , near Amble , to East of male monastery Alnwick ; circa, Angliae Borealis
Modern Location:
Brainshaugh
Corporate Status:
Piory
Dedication:
Wilfrid
Date Founded:
1147 (circa)
Date Terminated:
1313 or later
Religious Order:
Premonstratensian (Norbertine)
Foundation Information:
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.
Dependency Of:
The women at Guizance were dependent upon the canons of Alnwick.
Assets/Property:
Thought to be a small, poor community between 1216-20.
Manuscript Sources:
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
Published Primary Sources:
Northumberland Pleas from the Curia regis and assize rolls, 1198-1272, 217, no. 655.
Calendar of the Charter Rolls,1226-1516, Volume 3:87.
Secondary Sources:
Miscellaneous Information:
termination date : Prioress 1313 : date last notice
Admin. Notes:
[V0413]
Contributors:
WRL Project
Contributors Notes:
The history of the nunnery of Guizance is very obscure; the community was little known even to contemporaries.
Date Started:
1147
Date Finished:
1313
Length:
1107
