Matilda de Bailleul

Matilda de Bailleul aka Maud

By 1200, she had a psalter in her personal possession which is believed to have been made by scribes and an artist associated with St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire. It is not clear how it came into her possession or who it was made for. It may have been made for her maternal great uncle, Osto of Saint-Omer. She added details to the psalter of her relatives obituaries and prayers.

Death and legacy She died in 1212 and by that time the number of nuns had grown from not many to forty. The psalter was passed down to her spiritual successors who also added annotations. She would serve as Abbess until 26 April 1257.