Gilbertines

Gilbertines, a religious order in the Roman Catholic Church, one of the few of English foundation. Its founder in 1148 was St Gilbert, a native of Sempringham, in Lincolnshire. The rule of the order was mainly derived from that of the Canons Regular of St Augustine. St Gilbert also founded an order of nuns after the Benedictine institute. Both orders were approved, and had numerous convents in England at the time of the Reformation, when they shared in the general suppression.