THE ROLE OF MARY KNATCHBULL IN THE ENGLISH BENEDICTINE FOUNDATIONS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY From: Magistra | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: Anonymous | Copyright Magistra Publications Summer 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Mary Knatchbull (1610-1696) was the Benedictine abbess of Ghent and founder of Boulogne (1653), Dunkirk (1662) and Ypres (1665), all of which were initiated as daughter houses of Ghent in the space of twelve years. The story presented here is based primarily on manuscript annals and printed primary sources that will consider the extent of Mary Knatchbull's involvement both in the foundations and subsequently in order to evaluate her importance as a leader in the English seventeenth-century co...