title: Saint-Ghislain Abbey
text: # Saint-Ghislain Abbey
  
  Saint-Ghislain Abbey (Abbaye de Saint-Ghislain) was a monastery founded by Saint Ghislain around 650, located in Wallonia on the Haine (Hainaut, Belgium). It became a Benedictine monastery around 940, when reformed by Gérard of Brogne, and was suppressed in 1796.
  
  ## History
  
  On 2 June 965, Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, confirmed Godfrey of Lower Lotharingia's gift to the abbey of 18 mansi of land in Villers-Saint-Ghislain.
  
  ## Notable members
  
  * Mathieu Moulart
  