The priory was founded by Ralph de Todeni who was given the manor of Eastlie (Astley) following the Norman conquest of England. It was an alien Benedictine House, belonging to a parent monastery in Normandy.
The priory was founded by Ralph de Todeni, who received the manor of Eastlie (Astley) following the Norman conquest of England. It was an unusual Benedictine house belonging to a parent monastery in Normandy.