Sporle PriorySporle Priory was a Benedictine priory in Norfolk, England. It was founded by Alan fitz Flaad in the early 12th century,[1] Benedictine and given to the monks of the Abbey of Saint-Florent, Saumur free-of-charge as an alien priory.[1] It was vacant for some time after the Black Death,[2] and was dissolved in 1424.[1] Fitz Flaad gave to the monks of Saint-Florent the church at Sporle, its tithes, a man's landholding, a ploughland in Sporle and another in Mileham, firewood and building timber, and pasture for sheep.[3] Sporle was later endowed with property in Norfolk villages, including Great and Little Palgrave, where the priory had the church,[4] Great Dunham, Hunstanton and Holme-next-the-Sea.[5] References
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