The priory was founded in the 14th Century in the Fôret de Soignes outside Brussels. A drawing of the priory from the same viewpoint by Lodewijk de Vadder is in a Belgian private collection, see R.-A. d'Hulst, G. Grieten, P. Ruys-Raquez, A. van Egeren, Dessins du XVe au XVIIIe Siècle dans les collections privées de Belgique, Brussels, 1983, no. 30, illustrated