Summary Page: Former House
Name: Houthem, S. Gerlac
Circary at the Time: Westfalia
Years of Activity: ca. 1172-ca. 1232 (-1786)
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Monasticon Praemonstratense (I, 171)
Approximate modern location: Northeast of Maastricht in Limburg Province, Netherlands.
Elm-Number [See below]: 103*
Other Comments: The church of Houthem, which was a great center of pilgrimage to S. Gerlac, is now a parish church.
* This listing (and the numbers, with a few adjustments after 1995) is based on the map contained in Kaspar Elm's Norbert von Xanten: Adliger, Ordensstifter, Kirchenfürst, Wienand Verlag, Köln, 1984, page 328-329.