Mary Percy, abbess


Mary Percy was an English noblewoman who founded an English Benedictine Monastery in Brussels and served as its abbess.

Life

Mary Percy was born on 11 June 1570, the daughter of Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, and his wife Anne Somerset. On 21 November 1599 she was clothed as a nun in the newly founded English Benedictine Monastery in Brussels, making her profession of vows on 21 November 1600. She brought to the monastery a dowry of 5000 florins. She was elected abbess in 1616, serving until her death in Brussels on 13 September 1642.

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