Priories depending on an abbey

The priory is generally a religious establishment created by a more important Abbaye on a land field which was given to him; it is served by Moine S of this abbey which manage the Temporel on the spot and send the incomes of it to their abbey. The priories are equipped with churches built and maintained by the abbey-mother. The Prieur is presented either by the owner, i.e. the beneficiary of the primitive founder of the church, or by a chapter, then named by the Abbé on which it depends. It can have with him of only one with several tens of religious.

However, when a priory reaches a certain autonomy so much from the point of view of the personnel (many monks, applicants and many beginners) that in the economic domain, the priory can be set up in abbey. The church becomes abbey then and an abbot is named by the community of the monks.

The number of monks of a priory is very variable according to the times and the places, since only one serving which exerts the functions of a vicar, until a true monastic community with a cloister. In this case, the Prieur is distinguished from an abbot only by his title (that of abbot having to be set up in a canonical way). These great priories had row of abbey and also had priories depending on them.

Priory-cures

A priory-cure is a Cure dependant on a Monastic order and served by a Religieux. From the IVe council of Lateran (1215), which prohibits the creation of new orders and new churches, the monks are held to return in their cloisters and the majority of these priory-cure are secularized to become parishes or branches served by a priest named by the bishop. The land incomes of censives remain the property of the abbeys, and the new priest perceives the dîme with which it is held to maintain various works the parish, including the chorus of the church. The other ecclesiastical incomes are managed by a council of elected inhabitants, called manufactures.

Military orders

A priory is also an administrative unit, in particular in the organization of the hospital orders.

This name perhaps so given to the principal residence of the Commander of a Hospital order as it was the case for the Priory of Sacquenay, in Burgundy, in the North of Dijon, priory which thus chapeautait the old local possessions of Templiers taken again in hand by the Hospital ones at the time of the eradication about Jacques de Molay by Philippe the Beautiful one at the beginning of XIVe century.

The name of “priory” appears sometimes in the Toponymie to indicate buildings used or having been used by an religious order.

Internal bonds

• Regular and secular
• List of the catholic regular orders
• Priory of Orsan, Saint-Benoit-of-Sault the, Priory of Saint-Arnoult

External bonds

• Priories and Abbayes in Provence

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