Matilda de Bailleul

Matilda de Bailleul aka Maud[1] (c.1132 – 14 December, 1212) was a Flemish abbess of the English Wherwell Abbey.

Her mother Euphemia was a grand daughter of a Castellan of St Omer and her family had included the founding Knight Templar Godfrey de Saint-Omer.

King Stephen's troops burnt the abbey after Matilda's men retreated into it.

[citation needed] On 21 May 1194 the pope Celestine III wrote to de Bailleul and the nuns at the Abbey.

[4] By 1200, she had a psalter in her personal possession which is believed to have been made by scribes and an artist associated with St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire.