Swinford Preceptory is a former house of the Knights Hospitaller located near to the village of Swinford, Leicestershire.
History The preceptory was founded before 1199, with land at Swinford donated to the Knights Hospitaller by Robert Rivell.Swinford Hospitaller Preceptory, English Heritage: PastScape
Only a small preceptory, it was under the control of Dalby Preceptory before 1220. By 1338, however, the preceptory had become a "camera" (a lesser establishment dependent upon another), under the administration of a seneschal and bailiff.
The Knights Hospitaller in England were disbanded in 1540, and their preceptories dissolved as part of King Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries.House of Knights Hospitallers: Preceptory of Dalby and Heather, A History of the County of Leicestershire: Volume 2 (1954), pp. 32-33. Date accessed: 27 June 2013.
See also Dalby Preceptory Heather Preceptory Rothley Temple
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