Dieleghem Abbey is an abbey in Jette

Jette

Jette is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium.The Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the Dutch-speaking university of Brussels has built its hospital and medical campus in Jette, while its other buildings are in the so-called Etterbeek campus actually...

, northwestern Brussels

Brussels

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, Belgium

Belgium

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. It was founded in 1095 by the Bishop of Cambrai and administered by Augustinian canons

Canon (priest)

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. In 1140, the abbey’s monks switched to the rules of the Premonstratensian

Premonstratensian

The Order of Canons Regular of Prémontré, also known as the Premonstratensians, the Norbertines, or in Britain and Ireland as the White Canons , are a Catholic religious order of canons regular founded at Prémontré near Laon in 1120 by Saint Norbert, who later became Archbishop of Magdeburg...

 order. In the 13th century, the abbey now called Dieleghem possessed half of the commune’s territory and played an important social and economic role until the French Revolution

French Revolution

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