Goswin was a Benedictine abbot.
Born in Douai in 1082, then in the County of Flanders and since 1668 in France, he studied in Paris and afterwards returned to Douai to teach theology.
[1] Goswin then entered Anchin Abbey in 1113, in Pecquencourt, near his hometown, and became a Benedictine monk.
In 1130 he was made abbot of Anchin Abbey.
[2] Goswin died of natural causes in 1165 at Pecquencourt.