Llanfaes Friary

Llanfaes Friary was a Franciscan in Beaumaris Wales.[1]
The monastery was founded c.1237AD by Llywelyn ab Iorwerth, Prince of Gwynedd and Wales and it was dissolved in 1538 by Henry VIII.[2]
It is the burial place of Eleanor de Montfort, Princess of Wales.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Llanfaes (Friary).
  2. ↑ D. M. Palliser, Peter Clark, Martin J. Daunton, The Cambridge Urban History of Britain, Volume 1 (Cambridge University Press , 2000),page 698.
  3. ↑ Brut y Tywysogion, Peniarth MS20, 223; Peniarth MS20Tr, 117.
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