![]() The brethren (and sisters) wore habits and were not afraid to beg for alms. īurton St Lazarus was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and St Lazarus and consisted of a Master and eight brethren, who all followed the Augustinian rule, and varying numbers of lepers and injured knights. He made a generous donation of two carucates of land (c.240 acres (100 ha)), a house and two mills to the Order in 1150 and his family continued their support for many generations. The largest donor is supposed to have been the Norman landowner Roger de Mowbray who himself took part in the Second Crusade from 1147 to 1148 his lion rampant coat of arms was adopted by the hospital alongside the Order of St Lazarus' normal green cross. It was flourishing by 1146 when it started to found cells in other parts of the country to cope with the spread of leprosy brought back by soldiers and pilgrims returning from the crusades. The hospital at Burton Lazars was founded between 11 and is thought to have been financed by subscriptions from throughout England. Hospital of Burton St Lazarus Early history Arms of Roger de Mowbray subsequently adopted by Burton Lazars Hospital - gules, a lion rampant argent In 1931 the parish had a population of 197. In 1866 Burton Lazars became a parish in its own right, on 1 April 1936 the parish was abolished to form "Burton and Dalby". In the early 1900s the village was famous for a steeplechase racecourse and grandstand just east of the village. The graves of the racing driver Eliot Zborowski and his son Louis Zborowski, also a racing driver, lie in the parish churchyard. A more recent attempt to use this for bathing was made in 1760 when a bath house was built but this did not achieve commercial success. The village has a natural sulphurous spring which was probably a major reason for the location of the hospital. The village's name quickly became abbreviated to Burton Lazars. The hospital became the Order's headquarters for the whole of its English estates and raised large amounts of money to fund the Order's activities (both military and hospitalary) in the Holy Land. It consisted of 104 acres (42 ha) of meadow and two mills and had a population made up of 30 villagers, 27 smallholders, 4 slaves, 100 freemen, 2 priests and had a value of £23.5.īurton's name was changed to Burton St Lazarus when the Order of Saint Lazarus opened a Leper Hospital on a hill next to the village during the Crusades of the 12th century. Before the conquest it was held by Leofric (the noble) son of Leofwin, but was given to Geoffrey of la Guerche once the Normans had taken control of England. It was originally an Anglo-Saxon village which was listed under the simple name of 'Burtone' at the time of William the Conqueror's Domesday Book in 1086. The name 'Lazars' derives from St Lazarus, and was added after the Leprosy Hospital was opened by the Order of Saint Lazarus in the 12th century. The village's name means 'farm/settlement with a fortification'. ![]() It is the site of the remains of the English headquarters of the military and hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus. It is two miles (3 km) south-east of Melton Mowbray, having a population of c.450 in 2015. List of places UK England Leicestershire 52☄4′42″N 0★1′47″W / 52.7450°N 0.8630°W / 52.7450 -0.8630īurton Lazars is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Burton and Dalby, in the Melton district, in the county of Leicestershire, England.
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