Women's Biography: Basilia, widow

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There are letters written to and by Basilia, widow.


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Basilia, widow

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Basilia is the widow of Hugh de Gournay. She lives at Bec and seems to have been a patron of the monastery. Anselm sends greetings to her and another women in a letter to the prior and brothers of Bec in 1092, calling them “our mothers”: “salutate matres nostras, dominam Evam et dominam Basiliam,” ep.147. In ep.68 to a monk, Anselm mentions Lord Hugh and Lady Basilia.

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11th century

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12th century

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Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury  Basilia, widow  1106-07 
Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury  Basilia, widow  c.1107