Education
He graduated Doctor of Divinity probably at Douai, and acted as secretary to the president of his order from 1621 to 1629.
He graduated Doctor of Divinity probably at Douai, and acted as secretary to the president of his order from 1621 to 1629.
Born in Yorkshire, he made his profession as a Benedictine monk in the monastery of Saint Laurence at Dieulward in Lorraine in 1610, and pursued his studies in Saint Gregory"s monastery at Douai. Subsequently he was sent on the English mission, and he was in prison in Yorkshire, as a Catholic priest, on 1 April 1618. On his release he was employed in reforming the monastery of Saint Peter at Ghent.
Sent to Germany to negotiate the transfer of monasteries from the Bursfelde Congregation, he was for half a year superior of the monastery of Rinteln, and was subsequently president-general of his order from 1635 to 1641.
At the ninth general chapter held in 1643 he was declared the first abbot of Lamspringe. He died at Hildesheim on 17 March 1651.
His remains were taken to Lamspringe in 1692, and buried in the church there.