Basilia, widow

Overview

Date of Birth

11th century

Date of Death

12th century

Biography

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.

Letters to Basilia, widow

A letter from Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury (c.1107)