Wivina (1103–1168) was a Benedictine abbess.

Born in Oisy, France, she refused all offers of marriage, becoming, aged 23, a hermitess at Groot-Bijgaarden, near Brussels.

She later accepted land from Count Godfrey of Brabant on which she built a monastery, serving as its first abbess.

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