 For the first hundred or so years after its foundation, the abbey appears to have been reasonably prosperous.In 1146–53, Abbot William successfully founded a daughter house at Poulton, which was endowed by Robert Pincerna (also Robert the Butler); it later moved to a site near Leek, Staffordshire, becoming Dieulacres Abbey.Both Combermere and Poulton are mentioned in about 1195 as Cistercian foundations in the area surrounding Chester.