Newbo Abbey


Newbo Abbey was a Premonstratensian house of canons regular in Lincolnshire, England, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.

Pogrom

Newbo was founded in about 1198 very close to Sedgebrook by Richard de Malebisse or Malbis. Malbis, as one of the judges itinerant of York and heavily in debt to a Jewish banker, had instigated in 1190 a pogrom against the Jews of the city, which may have cost as many as 500 lives.

Suppression

Newbo was suppressed at Michaelmas 1536 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII. However, the monastery had almost been abandoned in 1401 as a result of pestilence and poverty.
Stone coffins were dug up in the area of the abbey in about 1920 by the then Duke of Rutland and are believed to be at present in Belvoir Castle, which is only about four miles from the site.

Abbots of Newbo