Gilbert of Sempringham
Organization founder
1083 – 1190
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Who was Gilbert of Sempringham?
Gilbert of Sempringham, C.R.S.A., the founder of the Gilbertine Order, was the only Englishman to found a conventual order, mainly because the Abbot of Cîteaux declined his request to assist him in organising a group of women who wanted to live as nuns, living with lay brothers and sisters, in 1148. In the end he founded a double monastery of canons regular and nuns.
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