Ivychurch Priory

Ivychurch Priory was a medieval monastic house in Alderbury, southeast of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.

The Augustinian monastery of Ivychurch, also called Monasterium Ederosum or 'Ederose', was claimed in 1274 to have been a royal foundation of King Stephen's, based upon a small minster chapel dependent upon Alderbury church, either by Stephen's confirmation of the gift of the chapel to Salisbury in 1139 or by a subsequent endowment.

After successive royal endowments (which are recorded down to the time of King Edward III) in 1473 the priory held 'at least 740 acres of pasture and wood' in the park and forest.

[3] The priory owned the manor of Whaddon in Alderbury and the advowson of the church, which were given by Robert de Bluntesdon, Canon of Salisbury:[4] however in 1397, during the extravagant rule of Prior Virgo, when the number of canons at one point sank to only two, Richard II deprived Ivychurch of these holdings and placed them in the care of the Exchequer.

[8] Sir George had gained great honour as standard-bearer under Pembroke at the Battle of St. Quentin (1557), during which he vanquished a French nobleman in single combat.

...These Romancy Plaines, and Boscages did no doubt conduce to the heightening of Sir Philip Sidneys Phansie.")