Gilbert of Sempringham C.R.S.A. (c. 1083 – 4 February 1190) 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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