Subject

An early modern reference to the foundation of the abbey.

Text

Tintern alias de Voto Monasterium Beatae Mariae

Gulielmus Marescellus senior comes Penbrochiae cùm efferatam tempestaté anno domini 1200, evasisset, ex voto hoc coenobiù construxit, sinuoso in litore, praediis ditavit et monachis implevit Cistertiensibus, ex coenobio Tinternesis, apud Monumethenses in Wallia, quibus Abbaté praefecit Johannem Torrell. Hoc coenobium à Chrysostomo Henriques, in fasciculo Sanctorum ordinis Cistertiensis, appellatur Minor Tinterna.

 

Translation

In 1200 A.D. William Marshal the elder, Earl of Pembroke, escaped shipwreck during a wild storm. In gratitude, he vowed to build a monastery alongside the winding shore where he landed. He filled it with Cistercian monks from the monastery at Tintern in Monmouthshire, Wales, and placed Abbot John Torrell in charge. This monastery, according to Chrysostom Henrique’s Fasiculus Sanctorum Ordinis Cisterciensis (1623) is known as Tintern minor.

Source

‘Sir James Ware (1594-1666). Tintern alias de Voto. Wexford’, De Hibernia et antiquitatibus ejus disquisitiones, (Londini : typis E. Tyler, impensis Jo. Crook, sub signo Navis, in coemeterio S. Pauli, 1658) p.180