Cormeilles Abbey

Cormeilles Abbey (Abbaye Notre-Dame de Cormeilles) was a Benedictine monastery in Normandy. Cormeilles is now in Eure; the abbey was in the commune of Saint-Pierre-de-Cormeilles. The buildings are now completely destroyed.
==Foundation==
William FitzOsbern was buried there in 1071Osbern, and according to Ordericus Vitalis it was one of two religious foundations he established on his estates.The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis (1980, OUP), p. 283; the other was St. Mary's Abbey, Lire. The foundation was around the year 1060, and FitzOsbern endowed it richly with lands in England, after the Norman Conquest.
==Priories==
Chepstow Priory was dependent on Cormeilles, Chepstow having been one of FitzOsbern's grants Janet E. Burton, Monastic and Religious Orders in Britain, 1000-1300 (1994), p. 34.http://www.striguil.co.uk/chepstow/st__mary's_church.htm, http://www.visionwebsites.co.uk/Contents/Text/Index.asp?SiteId=137&SiteExtra=14722766&TopNavId=287&NavSideId=1489. A cell from Cormeilles also created Newent Priory, at Newent in Gloucestershire.Alien houses - The priory of Newent | British History Online Another priory was at Shirehampton.
==Later history==
The abbey had fallen into disrepair by the fifteenth century. After a series of partial reconstructions, it was suppressed in 1779.http://www.patrimoine-de-france.org/oeuvres/richesses-41-12873-89379-M49747-219873.html, in French
==Notes==
Category:Christian monasteries in France
Category:Benedictine monasteries in France