Maltby Preceptory was a house of the Knights Hospitaller in the village of Maltby, Lincolnshire, England. There are two differing accounts regarding its history.
It was established as a house for the during the reign of King Stephen around 1135-54 by Ranulf, Earl of Chester and included the church and Maltby, and land both there and in the villages of Tathwell and Rauceby.[1][2] It closed at the dissolution of the Monasteries around 1540.[1]
The Monastica Anglicanum claims it was a house of the Knights Templar and passed into the hands of the Hospitallers after the Templars were suppressed in 1312.[2]
References
^ ab"British History Online". Houses of Knights Hospitallers. Victoria County History. Retrieved 24 May 2011.