[1] The Brut y Tywysogion states that De Clare granted Cardigan Priory to the Gloucester Abbey prior to his death in or before 1117.
[2] The priory was dissolved in 1538 after which time it was converted into a mansion[3] and granted to Bisham, Berkshire, and subsequently to William and Mary Cavendish (1539/40).
In the mid 17th century Cardigan Priory was the favoured[4] home of Katherine Philips, known as "The Matchless Orinda".
[1] In 1922 it was re-opened by Dame Margaret Lloyd George as the Cardigan District and Memorial Hospital.
The Bishops of St Davids lived in one of the buildings when they visited Cardigan, which may have coincided with problems noted by the abbot of Chertsey in 1433/4.