• The Gilbertine Order of Canons Regular was founded around 1130 by Saint Gilbert in Sempringham, Lincolnshire, where Gilbert was the parish priest.
  • Also known as: Order of Gilbertine Canons, Ordo Gilbertinorum Canonicorum, Ordo Sempringensis, Sempringham Order.
  • In 1148 Gilbert travelled to Citeaux in burgundy to ask the Cistercian abbots there assembled in chapter to take charge of his order.
  • The Order of Sempringham had its origin in 1131. (fn. 1) In or about that year Gilbert of Sempringham left the household of Alexander, bishop of Lincoln...
  • Gilbert of Sempringham, founder of the Gilbertine Order. Although the shrine of Gilbert in Sempringham Priory began attracting pilgrims as soon as he was...
  • The order founded by Gilbert of Sempringham c. 1131 was unusual in being the only one which originated in England.
  • Gilbertine order. It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout.
  • I would love it if, one day, the Ordinariate could help resurrect the Gilbertine order ... He was, of course, the founder of the Gilbertine Order of Priests and nuns.
  • Gilbert of Sempringham, Presbyter and Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189. Gilbert was born in 1083, the son of a Norman knight, Jocelin, and a Saxon mother.
  • Gilbert of Sempringham founded the Gilbertine Order. It was the only English founded order and it was also the only one with double houses.