Matilda de Bailleul

Matilda de Bailleul
Bornc. 1132
Died14 December 1212 (aged 79–80)
Wherwell Abbey
Other namesMaud[1]
OccupationAbbess
Known fora transforming abbess of Wherwell Abbey
SuccessorEuphemia de Walliers

Matilda de Bailleul aka Maud[1] (c.1132 – 14 December, 1212) was a Flemish abbess of the English Wherwell Abbey. She arrived in 1173 and transformed the abbey that had few nuns following damage done by William of Ypres years before. She annotated and then gifted an illuminated psalter to her successors which is known as the Saint Bertin psalter.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Houses of Benedictine nuns: Abbey of Wherwell | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference psalter was invoked but never defined (see the help page).