Saint-Ghislain Abbey () was a monastery founded by

Saint Ghislain Ghislain (died 9 October 680) was a confessor and anchorite in Belgium. He died at the town named after him, Saint-Ghislain. Life He was probably of Germanic origin. Ghislain lived in the province of Hainaut in the time of Amandus (d. 679) a ...

around 650, located in

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on the

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( Hainaut,

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). It became a Benedictine monastery around 940, when reformed by

Gérard of Brogne Saint Gérard (in Walloon language, Walloon Sint-Djuråd) (c. 895 – October 3, 959) founded Brogne Abbey and reformed eighteen others according to the Benedictine Rule. Life Gérard was born at Staves (Namur (province), Namur). His father was S ...

, and was suppressed in 1796.

History

On 2 June 965,

Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), known as Otto the Great ( ) or Otto of Saxony ( ), was East Francia, East Frankish (Kingdom of Germany, German) king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973. He was the eldest son o ...

, confirmed Godfrey of Lower Lotharingia's gift to the abbey of 18

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of land in Villers-Saint-Ghislain.D. Van Overstraeten, "Diploma van keizer Otto I voor de abdij van Saint-Ghislain, 965", tr. C. Vleeschouwers, in ''Doorheen de nationale geschiedenis'' (

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, Brussels, 1980), pp. 10-13.

Notable members

* Mathieu Moulart

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