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Sweetheart Abbey, New Abbey, Dumfries & Galloway - The Abbey of Dulce Cor, better known as Sweetheart Abbey was a Cistercian monastery founded in 1275. The abbey, located on the banks of the River Pow, was founded by Dervorguilla of Galloway, daughter of Alan, Lord of Galloway, in memory of her husband, Baron John de Balliol. After his death, she kept his embalmed heart, contained in a casket of ivory and silver, with her for the rest of her life, and it was buried alongside her when she died. In line with this devotion to her late husband, she named the abbey Dulce Cor (Latin for Sweet Heart).
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