St Radegund's Priory, Cambridge

It was founded before 1144 (probably in the late 1130s) and dissolved in 1496 by the initiative of John Alcock, Bishop of Ely.

[1] Radegund was a 6th-century Frankish princess, who founded the monastery of the Holy Cross at Poitiers.

Jesus College was founded in 1496 on the site by Bishop John Alcock of Ely.

Contemporary churchman John Bale dubbed it "Spiritualium meretricum cœnobium" (lit.

"a community of spiritual harlots"), while both King Henry VII and Pope Julius II consented to its dissolution.