Matilda of Boulogne continued the close relationship between queenship and the priory. Two of her children were buried here and she took the prior as her confessor.[7] In the 12th century the priory had a reputation as a centre of learning under Prior Peter of Cornwall.[3]
Holy Trinity Priory in London, commended to St Botolph's Priory by Matilda of Scotland, was initially supposed to be obedient to them. However this authority was disputed by Holy Trinity, and after a lawsuit before arbitrators appointed by Pope Honorius III the matter was referred to the bishop of London, who decided in 1223 that Holy Trinity should be free from visitation from the canons and priors of St Botolph's.[8]
Thomas Pomerey is named as the prior of the house & church of Holy Trinity within Algate, in 1460.[9]
The buildings and land associated with the priory were given, or sold, to prominent courtiers and City merchants. In 1846, it was reported that there remained scarcely anything of the priory.[11] None of the buildings survive today except for some pointed arches within the office building on the corner of Aldgate and Mitre Street. Mitre Street itself follows roughly the line of the nave of the priory church, while Mitre Square corresponds roughly to the former cloister.
Some account of the Priory is given by John Stow,[10] and in the revised Monasticon.[11]
Duggan, Anne (1997). Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe: Proceedings of a Conference Held at King's College London, April 1995. The Boydell Press.