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Grace Dieu Manor is a 19th-century country house near Thringstone in Leicestershire, England, now occupied by Grace Dieu Manor School. It is a Grade II listed building. ==Early history== The house is named afterr the adjacent Grace Dieu Priory, a priory founded in 1240 by Roesia de Verdun for fourteen Augustinian nuns and a prioress . It was dissolved in 1540 and granted to Sir Humphrey Foster, who immediately conveyed it to John Beaumont, who made it his residence.〔 Beaumont was Master of the Rolls. His son Sir Francis Beaumont was also a judge and his grandson John Beaumont was created the first of the Beaumont baronets of Grace Dieu in 1627. Sir Francis Beaumont's other son, also Francis Beaumont, (1584 – 6 March 1616) was a dramatist and poet, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher. The third and last baronet died in 1686 and the estate was sold to Sir Ambrose Phillips (1637–1691) and became the Phillips family home. Phillips pulled down most of the priory church in 1696.〔 On his death in 1796 the estate passed to his cousin Thomas March, who took the name Thomas Phillips. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Grace Dieu Manor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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