Gilbertines
GILBERTINES
A religious order; thus called from St. Gilbert, of Sempringham, in the county of Lincoln, who founded the same about the year 1148; the monks of which observed the rule of St. Augustine, and were accounted canons, and the nuns that of St. Benedict. The founder of this order erected a double monastery, or rather two different ones, contiguous to each other; the one for men, the other for women, but parted by a very high wall. St. Gilbert himself founded thirteen monasteries of this order; viz. four for men alone, and nine for men and women together, which had in them 700 brethren, and 1500 sisters. At the dissolution, there were about twenty-five houses of this order in England and Wales.
Fuente: Theological Dictionary
Gilbertines
The only purely English order, founded by Saint Gilbert , c.1130, at Sempringham, England , starting with seven women, later increased with lay brothers and lay sisters. The Cistercian Rule was adopted. Gilbert traveled to Citeaux, France , c.1148, and asked the assembled Cistercian abbots to direct his order. His request was refused, however, as the Cistercians did not wish to take charge of the government of women. Gilbert therefore founded a community of canons regular under the Rule of Saint Augustine to act as chaplains and spiritual directors to the nuns. Absolute authority was vested in a “master” called “Prior of All.” During Gilbert ‘s life 13 houses were founded, four of which were for men only; all were in England except two in Westmeath, Ireland . The order was favored by the Crown from its foundation until the dissolution of monasteries , when the last Master, Robert Holgate, surrendered the houses, 26 by that time, without resistance.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Gilbertines
SEE GILBERT OF SEMPRINGHAM.