Dieleghem Abbey

Dieleghem Abbey or Dielegem Abbey is a former abbey located in the Brussels municipality of Jette, Belgium.The oldest reference to the abbey dates from 1095, when the Bishop of Cambrai issued a charter in its favour. Initially administered by Augustinian canons, in 1140, the abbey's monks switched to the rules of the Premonstratensian order. In the 13th century, the abbey now called Dieleghem possessed half of the municipality's territory and played an important social and economic role until the French Revolution. The abbots, mitred from 1532, sat in the States of Brabant; the representation of the three estates to the court of the Duke of Brabant.

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