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"abbess" Definitions
  1. a woman who is the head of an abbey of nunsTopics Religion and festivalsc2
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bawd Covent Garden abbess lady abbess madam mother superior procuress whoremistress nookie-bookie brothel-keeper pimp nun conventual prioress religious canoness contemplative novice vestal anchoress vowess sister Mother Superior Reverend Mother bride of Christ holy sister religious woman Bride of Christ sistren ancress prelate bishop cleric minister priest prior abbot archbishop cardinal dignitary ecclesiastic hierarch provost clergyman clergyperson metropolitan suffragan diocesan primate divine ecclesiarch head nun Holy Mother lady superior reverend mother superior superioress More
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Even an abbess (Judi Dench) gets in on the action.
Basina herself took on guarding the abbess to ensure she wouldn't escape.
Mother Abbess Micaela has lived in the convent of Tolosa for 24 years.
"We also have a vegetable garden and ten sheep we cannot neglect," Mother Abbess explains.
"Novitiate" veers between subtlety and its opposite, which is personified mainly by Melissa Leo's abbess.
She was a virginal abbess who conjured a comely maiden for her disappointed suitor to marry.
But it will not be so easy, as Mother Abbess (Wendy vanden Heuvel) soon tells them.
VOLTEFACE obviously stopped me for a bit; UPBRAIDED, PILASTERS, IRATER and ABBESS are all classic, more challenging fill.
For a moment I allow myself to imagine that I am here to present myself to the abbess.
I've been thinking a lot lately about Hildegard von Bingen, the 12th-century composer, abbess, inventor and saint.
Chappell, is a gloriously grotesque "abbess" whose whores are "nuns" and whose "nunnery" is one of London's most exclusive brothels.
In a moment of click-to-buy instantaneity, Ms. Sozzani looks like a luxury abbess, a lone beacon of calm.
He duly promised to send a royal commission to resolve their problems with the abbess, but the men never arrived.
I apply to the abbess through our parish priest, but the sisters won't take me as an oblate or a charity case.
Several pregnant nuns and a local eunuch, albeit one who denied ever meeting the abbess, were produced to back up the fallen princesses.
Because the calamity here is women's loss of faith in themselves, Mother Abbess aims to address it through a revamped and female-oriented cosmology.
Back in the middle ages, if you were a woman and you weren't a nun or an abbess, you probably didn't have much status outside of the home.
As Mother Abbess, I represent the convent and I can make small calls without consulting the other, nuns, but that hardly ever happens because we work as a group.
A cellblock riot, a spaceship dogfight, a bar brawl, a hospital trauma, violent encounters with C.G.I. beasts — there is little Mr. Abbess ("Infini") won't toss into this delirious, overheated stew.
While Basina chose to return to the convent—presumably confident in the knowledge that the abbess knew better than to cross her again—Clotilda was provided with a better option.
Age is a phenomenon that the 16th-century Italian realist Giovanni Battista Moroni embraces in his extraordinarily candid portrait of the middle-aged Abbess Lucrezia Agliardi Vertova, hanging in Gallery 608.
Brought to a second convent run by a flighty libertine abbess (Liselotte Pulver, who played a bombshell secretary in Billy Wilder's 1961 comedy "One, Two, Three"), Suzanne experiences another sort of torment.
Another welcome walk-on part goes to Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, a sometime abbess who corresponded with Descartes and gave him an impressively hard time over his ideas about the mind-body problem.
" — Hopeful, Bethesda, Md. "'The Sound of Glasnost': To escape the Nazis, the Von Trapps had the Mother Abbess; to evade the F.B.I. and Claudia's anti-Gorby fifth column, the Jenningses have Father Andrei.
The local bishop roused the townsfolk, saying that no-one would be baptized until the situation was resolved, and Clotilda responded by threatening to kill the abbess should anyone try to rescue her.
By using Lingua Ignota — a secret language invented by Hildegard of Bingen, the polymathic medieval abbess and composer — for the libretto, he also aimed to strip the storytelling of connections to any particular culture.
In the palmy days before the ransacking, the abbess employs her to take notes on meetings with passing dignitaries, from whom she learns about many things, including gossip from the court about Anne Boleyn.
Mathilde delivers the baby by cesarean section but is sworn to secrecy by the fearful Mother Abbess (Agata Kulesza, of "Ida"), who is terrified lest the news of a pregnant nun tarnish the convent's reputation.
The day after, Nicky's sister-in-law, Elizabeth, an abbess; his cousin Sergei; and his nephews Ivan, Constantine, Vladimir and Igor were beaten and thrown down a half-flooded mine shaft in Alapayevsk, near Yekaterinburg.
But for audacity and opacity it's hard to top "In the Green," which is directed by the gifted Lee Sunday Evans and features Ms. McLean as Hildegard's mentor, the Benedictine abbess and anchoress, Jutta von Sponheim.
But they also made the more outlandish claim that their abbess, Leubovera, allowed strange men to enter the abbey and knock up their fellow nuns, and that she had castrated a man and kept him in the convent.
Ms. Hindman has worn many of the pieces, just to see if they are wearable: a finely engraved silver pomander in the form of a book, and a pair of 17th-century carved jet necklaces worn by a Spanish abbess (listed for sale at $125,000).
A sweet smell exuding from a burn wound indicated holiness, and for medieval folk it was perfectly plausible that the Italian abbess Chiara Vengente's heart grew tiny, fleshy crucifixes inside its chambers, discovered when her sister Francesca sliced it out of her chest after death in 1308.
CreditCreditEric Helgas for The New York Times Sometime near the dawn of the 12th century, the German Benedictine abbess and all-around mystical soothsayer Hildegard of Bingen became obsessed with the concept of viriditas, a word she stole from the Latin root for greenery but twisted into her own ecstatic definition.
The influence of Correggio's first important frescoes in Parma, for the abbess of the Benedictine Convent of San Paolo, is visible here in two enormous organ doors by Parmigianino, for the Santa Maria della Steccata church, later to be the scene of his only major independent fresco commission (sadly unfinished) in his native city.
On 14 January 1044, after the death of her kinswoman, Abbess Adelaide I, Beatrice was installed as Abbess of Gandersheim Abbey by her father, overriding the right of the canonesses to elect their own head. She was additionally consecrated Abbess of Quedlinburg on 24 June 1044 in Merseburg Cathedral, also succeeding Adelaide I, and a little later was created abbess of .
She was succeeded as abbess by her niece Auguste Dorothea of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1749-1810), who would be the last princess-abbess of Gandersheim.
Nicole de Dammartin (fl. 1520), was a German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France. She was abbess from 1520 until 1520. Nicole de Dammartin elected Madeleine de Choiseul as her successor, which was contested by Marguerite de Neufchâtel, Abbess of Baume.
Adelaide II (; 1045 – 11 January 1096), a member of the Salian dynasty, was Abbess of Gandersheim from 1061 and Abbess of Quedlinburg from 1063 until her death.
Before March 1322, she became a member of the Vreta Abbey, and in 1323, she succeeded her sister as its abbess. She abdicated in 1344, and is last mentioned in 1350, when she temporarily served as abbess between the death of the former abbess and before the election of the next.
Adelaide I (; 973/74 - 14 January 1044 or 1045), a member of the royal Ottonian dynasty was the second Princess-abbess of Quedlinburg from 999, and Abbess of Gernrode from 1014, and Abbess of Gandersheim from 1039 until her death, as well as a highly influential kingmaker of medieval Germany.
Madeleine de Choiseul (15??-1544), was a German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France. She was abbess twice, in 1520 and in 1544.
She was appointed abbess sometime prior to 1508. This year, she is confirmed as such, when she appealed to the city for economic assistance in her capacity of abbess.
Eusebia eventually returned to Hamay, where she became abbess. Her younger sister Adalsinda later joined her there. Abbess Eusebia died around 680. In Belgium she is called Isoie or Eusoye.
Anna Salome of Manderscheid-Blankenheim (12 December 162815 March 1691) was Abbess of Thorn Abbey from 1648 to 1688, and the abbess of Essen Abbey from 1688 until her death.
Katherine of Sutton, Abbess of Barking (abbess 1358-1376), was a Catholic woman, known for her innovative techniques and creative plays that she wrote during her time at Barking Abbey.
The office was to be given to her niece, Marguerite, but she married Gaston, Duke of Orléans. The couple's second daughter, Élisabeth Marguerite d'Orléans, became titular abbess, as was Princess Élisabeth Charlotte of Lorraine. Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine was also abbess. Anne Charlotte de Lorraine, was an abbess from 1738 until 1773.
Anne became abbess of Fontevraud in 1477. This was an abbey in which both monks and nuns lived, but was always ruled by an abbess. She continued the work of her predecessor Marie de Bretagne in reforming the order. She also became abbess of Holy Cross Abbey (Poitiers) until her death in 1491.
In this vein, within her first year as abbess she instituted the ceremony in which female ancestors could be honored. She became Central Abbess of San Francisco Zen Center in 2014.
17 October 2013 In 748, they arrived in Bischofsheim ("bishop's place") where Boniface founded a convent, and Lioba was made abbess. Later, Thecla became abbess of Ochsenfurt. Sometime after 750, Upon the death of Hadelonga, foundress and first Abbess of Kitzingen on the Main, she was called to supervise that abbey as well.Harmeling O.S.B., Deborah.
Her solemn profession was made into the hands of the abbess on 9 May 1922. Panas was later elected on 19 May 1927 as the novice mistress and later on 22 June 1936 was elected as abbess; she retained that position until 1952 though was voted abbess once more in 1955 and held the position until her death.
Wigbold's sister Beatrix von Holte was abbess of Essen Abbey.
Gepa of Dassel was abbess of the Ursuline monastery in Cologne.
The Passional of Abbess KunigundeAlternative names: Passional of Abbess Cunegund, Passional of Abbess Kunhuta. is an illuminated Latin manuscript commissioned by Prague Benedictine Abbess Kunigunde of Bohemia, daughter of King Ottokar II of Bohemia, after 1312. The work is an anthology of mystic treatises on the theme of Christ‘s passion, two of them were composed by Czech Dominican friar Kolda of Koldice. The manuscript was written and maybe also illuminated by Prague canon Beneš, who served as a priest in the St. George's Convent.
Wendreda, also known as Wendreth, was an Anglo-Saxon nun, healer, and saint, perhaps of the 7th century. She was uncertainly reported as a daughter of King Anna of East Anglia, a Christian king, which would make her a sister of Etheldreda, abbess of Ely, Sexburgha, abbess of Minster-in-Sheppey, and Ethelburga, abbess of Faremoutiers, who are all better-known saints, and a half-sister of Sæthryth, also an abbess of Faremoutiers. Wendreda is associated with March, in the Isle of Ely, and Exning, Suffolk.
Adriana reappears with henchmen, who attempt to bind the Syracusans. They take sanctuary in a nearby priory, where the Abbess resolutely protects them. Suddenly, the Abbess enters with the Syracusan twins, and everyone begins to understand the confused events of the day. Not only are the two sets of twins reunited, but the Abbess reveals that she is Egeon's wife, Emilia of Babylon.
Halldóra Eyjólfsdóttir (died 1210) became the first abbess of Kirkjubæjar Abbey in 1189, three years after its foundation by Bishop Þorlákur Þórhallsson, and thereby the first abbess in Iceland. Her family and origin is unknown, except for a brother (Sokki Eyjólfsson), who died in 1211. After her death in 1210, no other abbess is known of the convent until Agatha Helgadóttir in 1293.
In 1660, Elisabeth entered the Lutheran convent at Herford, and in 1667 she became abbess of the convent. While the convent was Lutheran, Elisabeth was a Calvinist. Although the previous abbess (Elisabeth's cousin) had also been a Calvinist, this difference in faith created some initial distrust. As abbess, she presided over the convent and also governed the surrounding community of 7,000 people.
Auguste Drothea Herzogin von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel by A.R. de Gasc Augusta Dorothea of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1749–1810), was Princess Abbess of Gandersheim Abbey from 1778 until 1810. She was the last sovereign Princess Abbess of Gandersheim.
Voltan kidnaps the Abbess, demanding a large sum of gold as a ransom. After Voltan and his henchmen leave with the Abbess, the nuns tell Ranulf to seek the High Abbot at the Fortress of Danesford.
She entered the convent in Elten at a young age. She became provost in Vreden in 1596. In 1603, she became abbess of Elten. From 1614, she was abbess of the abbeys at Vreden, Borghorst and Freckenhorst.
It is possible that the will was written before Æthelgifu became abbess, or it is possible that these estates were given to her while she was abbess, but they reverted to the male line once she died.
Agnes II de Dammartin (fl. 1507), was a German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France. She was abbess from 1505 until 1507. During her tenure, the discipline was described as lax.
Sophia took monastic vows and became an abbess at Admont, in Styria.
Her only daughter was Beatrice I, Abbess of Quedlinburg, who never married.
In 1565, with the consent of both the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope, she was elected coadjutor to Anna II, the first Protestant Abbess of Quedlinburg. Abbess Anna II died on 4 March 1574; a day after Anna II's death, Elisabeth was consecrated Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, and as such she was also Princess of the Holy Roman Empire. Elisabeth II was the second Protestant Abbess of Quedlinburg and the first one to be Protestant at the moment of her election. Augustus, Elector of Saxony, was initially against her election.
In 1045, King Henry III granted the convent the right to hold markets, collect tolls, and mint coins, and thus effectively made the abbess the ruler of the city. Emperor Frederick II granted the abbey Reichsunmittelbarkeit in 1218, thus making it territorially independent of all authority save that of the Emperor himself, and increasing the political power of the abbess. The abbess assigned the mayor, and she frequently delegated the minting of coins to citizens of the city. A famous abbess during this time of great power was Elisabeth of Wetzikon.
Princess-Abbess Anna III Anna III, also known as Anna of Stolberg (3 April 1565 – 12 May 1601) was Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg from 1584 until her death. Anna was the daughter of Count Henry of Stolberg (1509–1572) and his wife, Elisabeth of Gleichen (died 1578). Anna III was elected to succeed Elisabeth II, Abbess of Quedlinburg. The election of the new princess-abbess was confirmed by Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. She frequently confronted Quedlinburg city council and the city patron, Christian I, Elector of Saxony, and appealed to the Emperor for support.
Shortly after her birth, Matilda was sent to Essen Abbey, where her older cousin Mathilde was abbess, Matilda was educated here. It was presumed that Matilda would stay in the Abbey and become an Abbess like her older sisters Adelheid I, Abbess of Quedlinburg and Sophia I, Abbess of Gandersheim. However, Matilda lived a different life from her two sisters, she was to marry Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lotharingia. According to the Historian Thietmar of Merseburg Matilda's brother Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor did not like the idea of the marriage at first.
Adrienne du Petit-Cambrai (died 1608) was the 24th abbess of Forest Abbey.
It produced ten children including Theophanu, later another Abbess of Essen (died 1056).
Maria Gabriel Martyn (1604–1672) was Abbess of the Poor Clares of Galway.
As abbess, Herrad worked on rebuilding the monastery, as well as consolidating the land surrounding the monastery under its ownership. She proved herself to be a capable and well- loved abbess, and it was at this time that she began her work on the Hortus Deliciarum. Herrad was abbess for 28 years, and continued in that office until her death in 1195. Adelhaid of Faimingen was her successor.
Princess-Abbess Maria Machu Picchu Maria of Saxe-Weimar (7 October 1571 – 7 March 1610) was Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg from 1601 until her death. Born in Weimar, Maria was the daughter of John William, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Dorothea Susanne of Simmern. Princess-Abbess Anna III of Quedlinburg died on 12 May 1601. The provost of the congregation had died of plague and had not been replaced.
She became an abbess, founded hospitals herself, and died in 1892 in the Crimea.
She shares the date with her paternal aunt, At Edith, the abbess of Polesworth.
Catherine of Lorraine (3 November 1573 - 7 March 1648) was the Abbess of Remiremont.
1316 – d. 28 May? 1348), Abbess of Trebnitz. #Henry V of Iron (b. ca.
By some slight pretext the abbess had had the precaution to remove the porteress.
At the Convent of Santa María Rosa de las Rosas, the Abbess feels, having lost Pepita and the twin brothers, that her work to help the poor and infirm will die with her. A year after the accident, Camila Perichole seeks out the Abbess to ask how she can go on, having lost her son and Uncle Pio. Camila gains comfort and insight from the Abbess and, it is later revealed, becomes a helper at the Convent. Later, Doña Clara arrives from Spain, also seeking out the Abbess to speak with her about her mother, the Marquesa de Montemayor.
The king did not entirely forget her, however, and installed her as the abbess at Montmatre in 1598 or 1601. The appointment enjoyed the powerful support of Benoît of Canfield, Cardinal de Sourdis and Francis de Sales. Sources differ as to when she became abbess, but she retained the position for a remarkably long time, retiring from it only in 1657, probably on account of her extreme old age. The death in 1613 of Abbess Anne Babou led to Marie-Catherine's appointment as abbess of Beaumont, apparently concurrently with her position at Montmartre, but she held the Beaumont appointment only for two years.
He could not refuse an interview with the holy abbess and royal virgin Elfleda, the daughter of Oswiu of Northumbria, who succeeded St Hilda as abbess of Whitby in 680. The meeting was held on Coquet Island, further south off the Northumberland coast.
In consultation with the British Archaeological Association, several were identified. These included Heresuid and Bregesuid (or Breguswith), respectively the sister and the mother of St Hilda, Frigyd, the abbess of Hackness, and Hildilid, Eadgyd and Torchtgyd, respectively abbess and nuns of Barking Abbey.
Alix de Choiseul (died 1520), also called Aleidis, was a German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France. She was abbess from 1507 until 1520. She resigned in favor of Madeleine de Choiseul shortly before her death.
This convent historically benefited from extraordinary privileges granted to its abbess by kings and popes.
The abbess of Essen is not to be confused with her younger cousin Matilda of Germany, Countess Palatine of Lotharingia (979–1025), daughter of Otto II, who was entrusted to her cousin's care in the abbey at a very young age. It was intended that Matilda would stay in the Abbey and become an abbess like her cousin and older sisters Adelheid I, Abbess of Quedlinburg, and Sophia I, Abbess of Gandersheim, but she was ultimately married to Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lotharingia around 1000. This was despite strenuous objections by the Abbess Mathilde, such that Ezzo had to go to Essen to extract his bride. The marriage seems to have been designed to settle a dispute over Ottonian lands claimed by Ezzo, but was apparently very happy.
Elizabeth Shelford (died 1528) was abbess of Shaftesbury Abbey from 1505-1528. She was the second-last person to serve as Abbess before the monastery's closure under Henry VIII's dissolution. During her time as Abbess, a book called the 'Book of Hours' was made for her, which included history and dates of the Abbey's history. The book was later taken to the United States before being moved to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
Jouarre Abbey church Saint Thelchildis, was abbess of Jouarre Abbey and mentor of Berthild of Chelles. She remained Abbess at Jouarre until her death in 660. When Saint Bathildis, the wife of Clovis II, founded the Abbey of Chelles, she asked Saint Thelchildis to oversee the foundation, and to pick "the most experienced and virtuous nuns of Jouarre" to join her. She appointed St. Bertilde of Chelle as first abbess, about 646.Rev.
69-70 holds that the inscription is genuine, but refers to a different individual. However, Rellinghausen Abbey is mentioned in Abbess Theophanu's will of 1058 as the foundation of one of her predecessors. The abbess who reigned between Mathilde and Theophanu, Sophia, a sister of Otto III, who was simultaneously Abbess of Gandersheim, is unlikely to have been the founder of Rellinghausen. Sophia resided predominantly at Gandersheim and left behind only small traces at Essen.
Princess-Abbess Marie Elisabeth Duchess Marie Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein- Gottorp (21 March 1678 – 17 July 1755) was Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg from 1718 until her death. Duchess Marie Elisabeth was born in Hamburg as the youngest child of Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and his wife, Princess Frederica Amalia of Denmark. She was considered for marriage to Charles XII of Sweden, but he declined. In 1718, she was elected Princess- Abbess of Quedlinburg.
Marguerite IV d'Haraucourt, (15??–1568), was a German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France. She was abbess twice: a first term 1520-28, and a second in 1544-68. She was elected in 1520, but was deposed in 1528.
Sophia I (September 975 – 30 January 1039), a member of the royal Ottonian dynasty, was Abbess of Gandersheim from 1002, and from 1011 also Abbess of Essen. The daughter of Emperor Otto II and his consort Theophanu, she was an important kingmaker in medieval Germany.
The administrative duties of an abbot or abbess include overseeing the day-to-day running of the monastery. The abbot or abbess also holds spiritual responsibility for the monastics under their care, and is required to interact with the abbots or abbesses of other monasteries.
Ada of Holland (1208 – June 15, 1258) was a Dutch abbess of Rijnsburg Abbey from 1239.
She became abbess in 1643.Madame D'Aulnoy (1930). Travels Into Spain. Oxford: OxfordCurzon, reprint of 1691.
As of 2011, there are 15 nuns in the community, led by Abbess Monika Thumm, O.Cist.
It accommodated about 50 nuns. The first abbess was the sister of Count Eberhard II, Gerbirgis.
She served on order of magistrate Zhang Anguo abbess and Zen teacher of the Ceshou nunnery.
She was elected abbess in 1616, serving until her death in Brussels on 13 September 1642.
Abbess End is a hamlet in the Epping Forest district, in the county of Essex, England.
Detail of a mid-18th century map showing the territory of Buchau Abbey Allegorical ceiling painting of the Baroque abbey church showing Louis the Pious and Adelindis, founder of Buchau Abbey Maria Carolina von Königsegg-Rothenfels, Princess-abbess of Buchau (1742-1774) The abbey was initially a house of canonesses regular, but at a later date it was converted into a collegiate foundation of secular canonesses who belonged to various noble families of Swabia. In 1347, Buchau Abbey gained Imperial immediacy and the abbess was raised to the rank of Princess-Abbess. The abbey was an Imperial Estate and its abbess had seat and vote at the Imperial Diet.
Countess Anna of Stolberg-Wernigerode (28 January 1504 – 4 March 1574) was a German noblewoman who reigned as Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg from 1516 until her death. She was elected princess-abbess under the name Anna II at the age of twelve, succeeding Magdalena of Anhalt.
A few years later, in 1532, the abbess retired though a few sisters remained. Sophia von Grüth was appointed caretaker over the monastery in 1548. Two years later she was raised to be the abbess and the Abbot of Wettingen was appointed as the abbey's Visitor.
The abbey belongs to the Mehrerau Congregation. The present abbess is Mother Maria Bernadette Hein, the 46th abbess since its foundation. She succeeded Mother Adelgundis Selle in 2001. The nuns particularly devote themselves to teaching - the nunnery accommodates the primary school of Lichtenthal - and to religious handicrafts.
The abbey was given to a community of Benedictine monks from Ghent, who replaced the nuns originally at Egmond Abbey, probably in the 970s. His daughter Erlint, Erlinde or Herlinde, who was abbess at the time, was made abbess of the newly founded Bennebroek Abbey instead.
Here she was made successively mistress of the choir, second and first portress, the latter a position involving the management of the temporal affairs of the convent, and in 1702, on the resignation of Mother Winefrid Clare Giffard, abbess since 1670, she became abbess of the community.
Hawk doubts that Voltan will free the Abbess after the ransom is paid. He explains that Voltan treacherously murdered Hawk's wife, Eliane. Hawk and his friends decide to try and rescue the Abbess, but they fail. Hawk kills Voltan's son Drogo, who had previously assaulted the convent.
In 1977 Chrodoara's sarcophagus was discovered in the choir of the Church of Saint George and Saint Ode. On the cover she is depicted as an abbess holding a staff. However, although she was a patron and benefactor of the abbey she apparently was not an abbess.
In 1665 Ypres was founded from the mother-house of Ghent. Dame Beaumont was abbess, when she died in 1682, the decision was made to convert the house at Ypres into a national foundation for the Irish Benedictine nuns of the various houses founded from Ghent. Dame Butler accordingly was sent to Ypres in 1683, and, on the death of the second abbess, in 1686, was elected Abbess of the Irish Dames of Ypres, 29 August.
Two years later, on 7 May, Mother Columba was elected as the first abbess of the community. She continued to lead the community until 1982. She was succeeded by Mother Gail Fitzpatrick, who served as abbess until 2006, when , Mother Nettie Louise Gamble, O.C.S.O., was elected. International website of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance Mother Rebecca Stramoski was elected abbess in 2012 and was re-elected in 2018 for a second six year term.
Frithuswith remained abbess of the Oxford monastery, where she was later buried, until her death in 735.
The abbess of Thorn mediated and Ansfried was buried in the Cathedral of Saint Martin in Utrecht.
Rikissa was the abbess of St. Clara Priory from at least 1335 until her death in 1348.
She died in February 999 and was succeeded as abbess of Quedlinburg by her niece, Adelaide I.
Saint Berthild, also known as Bertille or Bertilla (died 692), was abbess of Chelles Abbey in France.
Two of her granddaughters, Sophie and Hedwig, would later join this abbey, one of them as abbess.
27 May 1518), abbess of Krummin Nunnery. #Barnim of Pomerania ( 12 April 1500 – bef. 2 December 1501).
In 1282 Margery de Wolaston was elected Abbess of Delapré Abbey in Northampton. She died circa 1296.
On 21 April 1618, Dorothea Sophia was elected successor to Princess-Abbess Dorothea. Her election was approved by Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor. During her reign, Quedlinburg was devastated by the Thirty Years' War. Unlike her predecessors, Princess-Abbess Dorothea Sophia often confronted John George I, Elector of Saxony.
They are also said to be related to King Dagobert, presumably Dagobert I of Austrasia. Saint Beuve was the first abbess of Saint-Pierre-les- Dames in Reims. In 639, her brother Balderic established the convent for her. She was succeeded as abbess by her niece Doda (or Dode).
The nunnery was founded with endowments by her father and her uncle, Wulfhere of Mercia,"St. Milburga", Diocese of Shrewsbury under the direction of a French Abbess, Liobinde of Chelles. Milburga eventually succeeded her in this office,"St. Milburga", Beckbury Village and was installed as abbess by St Theodore.
Eormengyth was the sister of Æbbe and Eormenburh. She was married to King Centwine of Wessex who ruled from 676-685 but became abbess as a widow possibly back in Kent (c. 695-705) in succession to her sister.Her daughter Bugga a correspondent of Boniface, replaced her as abbess.
These baths were very common at this time. After this, the renovation of the church began. When the church was completed (with the help of St. Artemios, to whom it was dedicated), the abbess of the monastery died. The nuns then elected St. Matrona as the new abbess.
On 14 September 2013, at the International Buddhist Confederation in New Delhi, Gyalwang Karmapa participated in a discussions with the Full Nun’s Ordination Working Group, joining Co-Chairs Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, Abbess of Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in India, and Ven. Dhammananda, Abbess of Wat Songkhammakalayani Temple in Thailand.
For this purpose, Vallø Castle was expanded between 1736-38 with a new baroque-style building designed by architect Lauritz de Thurah (1706–1759). Until 1810, the convent was headed by an abbess, who were to be of a princely house. Initially the abbess was Sophie Caroline of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1705–1764) who was a younger sister of Queen Sophie Magdalene. The abbess had the right to appoint the vicars in the parishes belonging to the county of the stift.
In 1586, the twelve-year-old Dorothea Maria was chosen by her father as Abbess of Gernrode and Frose as the successor to her elder sister Agnes Hedwig. In 1593 she was relieved of her post as abbess in order to marry John II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. The wedding took place in Altenburg on 7 January of that year. Her successor as abbess was her niece, Sophie Elisabeth, eldest daughter of her half-brother John George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau.
Anna Maria Cànopi, O.S.B., (April 24, 1931 – March 21, 2019) was an Italian Benedictine abbess and spiritual writer.
Ermenilda of Ely was an Abbess here, as well, after her husband Wulfhere of Mercia died in 675.
In her later years, she served as abbess of Gudhem Abbey and donated her vast estates to it.
The abbess of Remiremont Abbey was raised to the status of Imperial Princess and consecrated by the Pope.
Saint-Simon also said that he married his cousin Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine (1662–1738), Abbess of Remiremont.
The first Vita was written by Baudri of Dol, bishop of Dol-en-Bretagne (formerly abbot of the monastery of Saint-Pierre of Bourgueil), shortly after Robert's death in 1116. A second Life was commissioned a few years later by Petronilla, Abbess of Fontevrault, probably to support her authority as abbess.
Gertrude of Nivelles, O.S.B. (also spelled Geretrude, Geretrudis, Gertrud; c. 628Butler, Alban. “Saint Gertrude, Virgin and Abbess of Nivelle”. Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints, 1866 – 17 March 659) was a seventh- century abbess who, with her mother Itta, founded the Abbey of Nivelles located in present-day Belgium.
After improvement in the abbey's financial situation it was decided in 1727, under Abbess Maria Rosa von Neveu, to replace the old conventual building with a new one. Between 1728 and 1748, under Abbess Maria Franziska Cajetanna von Zurthannen, completely new Baroque premises were constructed according to designs by Peter Thumb.
It was a double monastery, built on Roman ruins. Æthelburh was the first abbess. It is assumed that Hilda remained with the Queen-Abbess. Nothing further is known of Hild until around 647 when having decided not to join her older sister Hereswith at Chelles Abbey in Gaul, Hild returned north.
Princess-Abbess Dorothea Princess Dorothea of Saxony (7 January 1591 - 17 November 1617) reigned as Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg from 1610 until her death. Dorothea was born in Dresden to Christian I, Elector of Saxony, and his wife, Princess Sophie of Brandenburg. Her baptism was notably held without the customary exorcism.
Protected by her family, she then withdrew to Andlau Abbey, which she had founded on her ancestral lands in 880, and where her niece Rotrod was abbess. (Richardis herself was previously lay abbess of religious houses at Säckingen and Zurich). She died at Andlau on 18 September and was buried there.
It is dedicated to Earconwald, one of the founders of Barking Abbey and brother to its first abbess Ethelburga.
Gertrude of Hackeborn (1232–1292) was the abbess of the Benedictine convent of Helfta, near Eisleben in modern Germany.
Mother Mary Bonaventure Browne (born after 1610, died after 1670) was a Poor Clare nun, abbess, and Irish historian.
1329/30 – d. aft. 29 May 1377), Abbess of Trzebnica (1362). #Bolesław (b. 1330 – d. by 4 October 1355).
She was elected abbess of her monastery in 1500 and she was re-elected in 1507, 1513 and 1515.
Sister Eleanor Dillon (c. 1601 – 1629) was an Irish abbess and co-foundress of the Poor Clares in Ireland.
Matilda became the abbess of the Montivilliers Abbey, and for that reason is best known as Maud of Montivilliers.
His second wife (936) was Guthia (Guhtiu), who as a widow became the foundress and first abbess of Gröningen.
Hedwig of Saxony (31 October 1445 – 13 June 1511) was Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg from 1458 until her death.
The election that followed her death resulted in a violent contest between the brothers of two candidates for abbess.
Tombstone of Margareta of Toszek. Margareta of Toszek (; 1467/68 - 8 November 1531), was a Polish princess and abbess.
Margareta Gustafsdotter or Margareta Göstafsdotter (floruit 1324), was a Swedish noble landowner and abbess. She founded the convent of the Dominican order for females at Kalmar in 1299 and served as its first abbess. Margareta Gustafsdotter belonged to the nobility as a member of the noble line Karl Gustavssons ätt, and is mentioned as a major land holder in 1291. In 1299, she donated her land to the first female abbey of the Dominican order in Sweden, which she founded in Kalmar, and became its first abbess.
Hildegard was the eldest child of Louis the German and the countess Hemma, born a year after their marriage. Interior view of Fraumünster showing a reprsentation of the legend of the founding of the abbey. In 844, she became the abbess of Münsterschwarzach in Bavaria, the Eigenkloster of the Carolingian court, founded in 780. On June 21, 853, Louis the German founded the abbey at Fraumünster, placing his daughter Hildegard as the abbess, while her younger sister Bertha succeeded her as abbess of Münsterschwarzach.
Isabella Hoppringle (1460–1538), was a Scottish abbess and spy. She was the abbess of Coldstream Abbey in 15051538. Belonging to a family who often provided abbesses to the Abbey in Coldstream, she became initiated in the position in 1505. She was a personal friend to the Scottish queen dowager regent, Margaret Tudor.
Agnes became abbess at Gandersheim Abbey, place of several famous women, such as Hroswitha of Gandersheim, recorded by Conrad Celtes. She was Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg from 1110 until 1125. She was excommunicated by Pope Calixtus II for her loyalty to her paternal uncle, Henry V, the King of the Romans in 1119.
For a short period, the order was directed by Francis himself.Bartoli, p. 95. Then in 1216, Clare accepted the role of abbess of San Damiano. As abbess, Clare had more authority to lead the order than when she was the prioress and required to follow the orders of a priest heading the community.
Joannes van Soest, De penitentie der heylige moniken eremyten, en andere die in de Eenigheyt geleeft hebben ; met eenige godtvruchtige bemerckingen ende ghebeden, Volume 4 (Joannes van Soest, 1711)page 316. She was the mentor of both St. Bertilde, Abbess of Chelles, and St. Etheria, first Abbess of Notre-Dame of Soissons (658).
Abbess Roding is a village in the civil parish of Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding and the Epping Forest District of Essex, England. The village is included in the eight hamlets and villages called The Rodings. It is in west Essex, north from Chipping Ongar, and west from the county town of Chelmsford.
1014), widow of his son Siegfried, first abbess (r.959-1014). She was succeeded by Adelaide I (r.1014-1045), a sister of Emperor Otto III, who was also Princess-abbess of Quedlinburg (r.999-1045). Initially the Gernrode convent was on a par with the Imperial abbeys of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim.
Gundelina (or Gundlinda) (c. 692 – c. 740), abbess, she was the third daughter of Duke Adalbert of Alsace and his first wife Gerlinda. She was the younger sister to saints Attala and Eugenia, both nuns and abbesses, and they were all nieces to the famous blind Saint Odilia, the abbess of Hohenburg.
As Abbess of Stanbrook Dame Laurentia McLachlan, OSB, née Margaret McLachlan, (11 January 1866 – 23 August 1953) was a Scottish Benedictine nun, Abbess of Stanbrook Abbey, and an authority on church music. She became posthumously known to a wide public when portrayed on the stage in a 1988 play, The Best of Friends.
He only mentions Seaxburh's marriage to Eorcenberht, succession as abbess and translation of her sister's relics.Ridyard, Royal Saints, p. 56.
Ingrid eventually returned from Norway and became abbess of Vreta. Her son, Knut Folkason, became Overlord of Blekinge and Lister.
Hildegard died December 23, 856 (some sources say 859). As before, her sister Bertha succeeded her as abbess of Fraumünster.
Weimar, 18 July 1605) #Maria (b. Weimar, 7 October 1571 – d. Quedlinburg, 7 March 1610), Abbess of Quedlinburg (1601–1610).
Princess-Abbess Anna Sophia I Countess Palatine Anna Sophia of Zweibrücken- Birkenfeld (2 April 1619 - 1 September 1680) reigned as Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg and, as such, she is referred to as Anna Sophia I. Anna Sophia was born in Birkenfeld to George William, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken- Birkenfeld, and his first wife, Countess Dorothea of Solms-Sonnenwalde. The young countess palatine pursued an ecclesiastical career and was appointed princess-abbess of Quedlinburg on 15 July 1645, succeeding Princess-Abbess Dorothea Sophia. She succeeded to the abbey-principality during the Thirty Years' War, which ended in 1648, and her small territory suffered invasion of the Swedish army. Anna Sophia I often came into conflicts with John George II, Elector of Saxony, and the Quedlinburg city council.
Beaulieu returns to the convent with a male Jewish colleague. She assures the nuns that he will keep their secret. The doctor visits the baby whose existence has been kept secret from the Abbess. The Master of Novices plans to take the baby to Zofia's family, but the baby is discovered by the abbess.
This is the Master of Novices' first realization that the Abbess has been dishonest about the fate of the babies. She confronts the Abbess demanding the truth. She says she entrusted the child to God, saying "Don't you believe in Providence?" At the medical base, Mathilde Beaulieu is getting ready to finally leave the area.
The first two entered the nunnery of their aunt Odilia at Hohenburg, where Eugenia eventually succeeded as abbess. Gundlinda was later abbess of Niedermünster. In 845 the Emperor Lothair I confirmed all the charters which Adalbert had granted to his foundation at Strasbourg. Some attribute the daughters to Gerlinda while others attribute them to Ingina.
In August 1143 the cardinal-priest Goizo of Santa Cecilia visited Venice, and following this visit Pope Lucius II (1144–45) published clear definitions of the jurisdictions of Castello and Grado. Sometime between 1141 and 1145 the doge nominated a new abbess for the convent of San Zaccaria to replace Nella Michiel, who had died. Dandolo condemned this lay interference in election of the abbess, and disputed the doge's right to invest her. A new abbess was only confirmed in 1151, and was not a member of a leading Venetian family.
In addition, the filmmakers used money from the international distribution rights to complete the film's post-production. Shane Abbess claims that Gabriels official budget will eventually be announced on its DVD release in a two-hour behind-the-scenes special feature. According to Abbess, finding funding for the film was "impossibly hard." The film was significantly funded out of the filmmakers' own pockets: Abbess worked as a building labourer, a removalist, at a call centre, and as a truck driver at the docks in order to raise the money to produce Gabriel.
Since Mathilde was abbess in Essen from 973 and she is not shown in the costume of an abbess, it is assumed in some newer scholarship that her depiction in the court dress of a high noble indicates that she appears here as the sister of Duke Otto and not in her role as abbess. Furthermore, the absence of symbols of a duke, such as a sword or a lance, for Otto suggest that the siblings are depicted as family members and not as dignitaries.Beuckers, 63. Mathilde receives a cross from her brother.
As a young woman, Margarete Sophie was princess- abbess of the Theresian Royal and Imperial Ladies Chapter in Prague (1886-1893). The convent was located in the Hradschin Royal Palace, and was an educational foundation open only to high-born young women, who were required to prove that all sixteen of their great-grandparents were of noble birth.Finestone, p. 105. It was not unusual for the abbess to be chosen from among the archduchesses of the Imperial Habsburg family, though the abbess and all pupils were allowed to leave the order and marry.
Submission of the town of Quedlinburg to Princess-Abbess Hedwig In 1460, the Princess-Abbess faced a rebellion when the city of Quedlinburg joined the Hanseatic League, attempting to gain independence from her and become a free imperial city. Gebhard von Hoym, Bishop of Halberstadt, aided the rebellion. The Bishop invaded the abbey- principality and tried to evict Hedwig. As a princess-abbess, Hedwig was subject only to the Pope and the Emperor; she forced the Bishop to renounce his claim with the help of her brothers, Elector Ernest and Duke Albert III of Saxony.
Infini is a 2015 Australian science fiction film directed by Shane Abbess and starring Daniel MacPherson, Grace Huang, and Luke Hemsworth.
Mary Percy (1570–1642) was an English noblewoman who founded an English Benedictine Monastery in Brussels and served as its abbess.
In an obituary found from a monastery in Rulle, describes Christina Von Haltren as having written many other books. Women’s monasteries were different from men’s in the period from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. They would shift their order depending on their abbess. If a new abbess would be appointed then the order would change their identity.
Elisabeth zu Salm (1570-1611), was a German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France. She was the daughter of Friedrich I zu Salm-Neuweiler, Wild- und Rheingraf in Dhaun (1561–1610), and his wife Franziska Gräfin von Salm (died in 1587).Salm, at deutsche-biographie.de She became abbess in 1602.
He eventually agreed to recognize her as abbess, on condition that he approves all the future candidates for the office of Abbess of Quedlinburg. Elisabeth II had to agree to impose taxes together with Augustus. Abess Elisabeth II hosted a theological conference in 1583, a year before her death. Elisabeth II died on 20 July 1584.
1445 – d. Kaufungen, 15 August 1504), Abbess of Gandersheim (1485), of Neuenheerse (1486–1492) and of Kaufungen (1495) #Waldemar VI, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen (b. 1450 – Köthen, 1 November 1508) #Scholastica (b. 1451 – d. Gernrode, 31 July 1504), Abbess of Gernrode (1469). On September 7, 1453 George married for a fourth time to Anna (b. ca.
He also painted two scenes with the story of St. Catherine, the Dispute before the emperor Maximilian and St. Catherine and St. Jerome, including an odd Annunciation (1514), for the abbess Giovanna da Piacenza (1514). Antonio Allegri (Correggio) would complete his own masterpiece frescoes for the abbess in a strikingly different, and for the age, more modern style.
Birgitta Botolfsdotter, or Botulfsdotter (fl. 1567) was a Swedish Roman Catholic nun, abbess of Vadstena Abbey during the ongoing Protestant Reformation. Birgitta was inducted into the order in 1492 by the Bishop of Linköping, who also financed her convent dowry. She became a prioress, and was in 1534 made abbess for the double convent of Vadstena.
Karl Seith: Das Markgräferland und die Markgräfler im Bauernkrieg des Jahres 1525. Karlsruhe 1926, pp. 61 and 97 In 1632, the nuns escaped the Swedish army by the skin of their teeth by fleeing to Rheinau Abbey. Abbess Maria Franziska Cajetana von Zurthannen In 1674, under Abbess Agnes von Greuth, the abbey released its serfs from their serfdom.
He describes cinema of that era as, "because CG effects weren't huge yet, the whole thing had to be about characters; had to be things you could believe in." Abbess also stated that he "did kinda of want to make one giant cliché." Abbess also intended the film to emulate the intentionally "jumbled quality" of 1980s cinema.
The Dillon sisters arrived in Ireland around 13 June 1629, and established the first Poor Clares convent in Ireland at Merchants' Quay in Dublin with Dillon as the abbess. The exact date of Dillon's death is unknown, but she died in 1629 as the convent was established, leading to her sister taking her place as abbess.
Mary Clare Kennedy () was the second Abbess of the Poor Clares of Galway. Kennedy became abbess sometime in the mid-1640s. Ó Muraíle has drawn attention to the fact that of the twelve sisters and two novices that founded the Galway convent, twelve had Anglo-Irish surnames yet two, including Kennedy, bore Gaelic surnames. Her background is obscure.
In 1046 the abbess, Eadgifu, was abducted by Sweyn Godwinson.Knowles, David; Brooke C. N. L.; and London, Vera C. M. The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales 940-1216 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1972 p. 214 Eadgifu is only abbess known by name. The convent was probably dissolved or suppressed not long after this incident.
Saint Cyra (also Chera, Crea, and Cere filia Duibhrea) was an early Irish abbess. Her feast day is 16 October. The virgin saint was abbess of the monastery of Killchere ("Cyra's Church") in that part of Munster which was called Muscragia or Muskerry. The site is now occupied by the ruins of a later Franciscan Kilcrea Friary.
Dar Lugdach (also Darlugdach d. c.525/527) was the immediate successor of Brigid of Kildare as abbess of Kildare, and is recognised as a saint. She is recorded as having died one year to the day after Brigid, and shares the same feast day as the more famous abbess. Little is known of her family history.
She remained secluded there for 20 years, and was a scribe, mistress of novices, counselor, vicar, and finally abbess, until her death.
1290 – d. Nov 1357/58), Abbess of St. Klara, Wrocław. #Boleslaw III the Wasteful (b. 23 September 1291 – d. 21 April 1352).
The column of Ida, behind the Cathedra of the Bishop The oldest surviving fitting in the Minster is the column in the choir, which now supports a modern crucifix. Until the fifteenth century it supported a cross coated with a gilt copper sheet, from which the donation plate and probably other remains in the Cathedral treasury were made. The Latin inscription ISTAM CRUCEM (I)DA ABBATISSA FIERI IUSSIT (Abbess Ida ordered this cross to be made) allows the creator to be identified with the Essen Abbess Ida, who died in 971, though the sister of Abbess Theophanu, Ida, Abbess of St. Maria im Kapitol in Cologne has also been suggested. The column itself is probably ancient spolia, going by fluted pedestal and the Attic basis of the column.
In order to display her power, the abbess carried a staff similar to a bishop's crozier. The most historically significant power that Katherine had as an abbess was the ability to initiate changes in the liturgical practices of the convent. This was particularly significant because although some women during this time period were able to hold power in a clerical position, a man was usually present as the overall supervisor. In the case of an abbess, there was always a bishop alongside her in office, however it is unclear as to whether or not she had to report to him before making any official changes or decisions. If any changes were made to the liturgical processes, the abbess would record them in the Ordinale, a manuscript of Barking’s customs.
Hrosvitha was followed by Hildegard of Bingen (d. 1179), a Benedictine abbess, who wrote a Latin musical drama called Ordo Virtutum in 1155.
Solveig Rafnsdóttir (1470–1561 or 1563), was the last abbess of the Reynistaðarklaustur, an Abbey of the Order of Saint Benedict on Iceland.
Cartwright, Julia. Isabella D'Este, Marchioness of Mantua, 1474-1539, vol. 2, E.P. Dutton, 1915, p. 155 She also became abbess of the convent.
Butler, Alban. Lives of the Saints, Vol.X (1866) Her tenure as abbess was marked by the unsettled political conditions of the period.Hochstetler, Donald.
Album sales are used to improve the monastery and pay off the abbey's debt. The music is arranged by the abbess Mother Cecilia.
The village is in the parliamentary constituency of Brentwood & Ongar. The village is locally served by Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding Parish Council.
Wu Chengzhen (; born 14 January 1957) is the first Chinese woman to be ordained as a fangzhang (abbess) in the history of Taoism.
Elizabeth Knatchbull religious name Lucy (1584 – 5 August 1629) was the founding English abbess of the Convent of the Immaculate Conception in Ghent.
11 July 1399) # Catherine (b. ca. 1344 – d. 10 April 1404/4 October 1405?), Abbess of Trebnitz (1372) # Hedwig (b. 1346 – d. ca.
8 May 1365), a nun at St. Klara, Wrocław. #Hedwig (b. bef. 1345 – d. 13 February 1413), Abbess of St. Klara, Wrocław (1379).
Saint Mildburh (alternatively Milburga or Milburgh) (died 23 February 727) was the Benedictine abbess of Wenlock Priory. Her feast day is 23 February.
Perpetua (died c. 423) was a late Roman abbess, the daughter of Saint Monica and Patricius, and the sister of Augustine of Hippo.
According to Benjamin F. Fisher, Edgar Allan Poe was familiar with Ireland's work and The Abbess influenced some of his macabre later works.
1255/65 - d. killed in battle, Siewierz, 26 February 1289). #Hedwig (b. 1265? - d. 9 June 1318), Abbess of St. Klara, Wroclaw (1283).
Thorunn Ormsdottir (Þórunn Ormsdóttir; died 1431) was the abbess of the Benedictine convent Reynistaðarklaustur in Iceland 1402–1431. Thorunn Ormsdottir assumed the position of abbess and took the responsibility of the convent and its lands after the former abbess and several of the nuns died in the Black plague in 1402. She was, however, never formally ordained as such. During the last year of her tenure, her convent was the center of a great scandal, when one of its members, Thora Illugadottir, had a child with the priest Thorthur Hrobjartsson, who was forced by the Bishop to make a pilgrimage to Rome.
Anthusa of Mantinea, also called Anthusa the Confessor, was an anchoress and abbess in Constantinople during the 8th century. Anthusa became an ascetic at a young age, living in the mountains near Constantinople in complete solitude. She later founded two monasteries, one for men and the other for women, and became abbess of the monastery for nuns, 90 of whom resided there and who "were known for their obedience to their abbess and for their spiritual discipline". She openly defied Emperor Constantine V's iconoclastic prohibitions, so she, her nuns, and her nephew, who was abbot of the second monastery, were arrested and tortured.
Abbess van Erp's chronicle was handwritten and the original is now lost, however, the document was copied at the end of the 17th century by amateur historian Andries Schoemaker (1660 – 1735) from Amsterdam. Schoemaker's copy dates from around 1700 and was published in 1698 by Antonius Matthaeus and is currently held in the library collection of Utrecht University. Because of her chronicle, the abbess is considered to have been "the first historian of our local history." The chronicle contains notes about events that took place in and around the monastery, and was probably written largely by the abbess herself.
Unlike the abbot, the abbess receives only the ring, the crosier, and a copy of the rule of the order. She does not receive a mitre as part of the ceremony. The abbess also traditionally adds a pectoral cross to the outside of her habit as a symbol of office, though she continues to wear a modified form of her religious habit or dress, as she is unordained—females cannot be ordained—and so does not vest or use choir dress in the liturgy. An abbess serves for life, except in Italy and some adjacent islands.
Mathilde is first named in a source as Abbess of Essen in 973. This document, issued in Aachen on the 23 July 973 reads:Document No. 40 in: The individuals mentioned in this document are Emperor Otto II, and Gero, the important Bishop of Cologne, to whom the Gero Cross owes its name, while "Otto his kinsman" is Mathilde's brother Otto of Swabia. At this point Mathilde was about 24 years old and thus still under the age at which she could technically receive appointment as abbess. Mathilde was not an abbess who remained secluded in monastic silence.
Sobun Katherine Thanas received shiho from Tenshin Roshi in 1988 and later was installed as abbess of the Santa Cruz Zen Center. Zengyu Paul Discoe, Chikudo Jerome Peterson and Ananda Claude Dalenburg also received shiho in 1988 (Ananda was the inspiration for the character Bud Diefendorf in Jack Kerouac's novel The Dharma Bums). Anderson gave shiho to his student Jiko Linda Cutts in 1996, who went on to serve as co-abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center from 2000 until 2007. She has served as Central Abbess of San Francisco Center from 2014 to 2019.
She and Lou were both ordained as priests by Zentatsu Richard Baker in 1977, and Blanche was given the Buddhist name Zenkei (meaning inconceivable joy). In 1988 she received shiho from Sojun Mel Weitsman, and in 1996 she became installed as co-abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center. This was the first female abbess of the City Center, having served just after Tenshin Reb Anderson and Sojun Mel Weitsman. One reason Blanche accepted the position of co-abbess, serving two terms from 1996 to 2002, is that she understood the need for women to have a role model.
The young Suzanne Simonin is forced by her parents to become a nun. She learns that as an illegitimate child, she is expected to atone for her mother's sin. Her abbess treats her kindly, but when the abbess dies and another takes her place, Suzanne considers breaking her vows. Due to the maltreatment she undergoes, she is thrown into a world of punishment.
In the Church of England however, it is kept on 19 November. In the calendar approved for formerly Anglican Personal Ordinariate and Pastoral Provision parishes in the Roman Catholic Church, the feast day of St. Hilda is celebrated on 23 June, together with those of St. Ethelreda, Abbess of Ely, d. 679, and St. Mildred, Abbess of Minster-in-Thanet, d. c.700.
The monastery, dedicated to Saints. John the Baptist and St. Paul was founded in 1126AD. According to the tradition of Gisela Schwabegg- Balzhausen, whose coat of arms, the monastery also took, the founder and first abbess was Mechthild an Augustinian choir woman. Mechthild of Dießen arrived in 1153 and was appointed abbess by the Bishop of Edelstetten to reform the pin.
Blessed Gertrude of Aldenberg , (c. October 1227 – 13 August 1297) was a German noblewoman and abbess. She was the daughter of Elizabeth of Hungary and of Louis IV, Landgrave of Thuringia. She became a Premonstratensian canoness regular at the Abbey of Aldenberg, near Wetzlar, in the Diocese of Trier, where she spent much of her life leading the community as its abbess.
Senhorinha of Basto is thought to have been born into the noble Sousa family as either Domitilla or Genoveva. After being raised by her aunt, Blessed Godinha, abbess of the Benedictine convent of St. John of Vieira, Senhorinha also joined the Benedictines and succeeded her aunt as abbess at Vieira. Later, she moved the convent of Vieira to Basto near Braga, Portugal.
Eleanor became an abbess in 1304. The coat of arms of the abbess appears on the edges, but is later than the manuscript. When she died in 1342, she left the gradual to the abbey. In 1387, Pascal Hugonot, abbot of Saint- Pierre de la Couture in Le Mans, donated the gradual to the collegiate church of Saint-Junien in Haute-Vienne.
At the urging of her father, Clara was elected abbess of Gandersheim Abbey after the death of her sister Maria. Since Clara was only 6 years old at the time, officials acting for her father administered the abbey in her name. It is unknown if the Pope ever confirmed Clara as abbess. In any case, she never took up the position.
Some of Hallbera's successors include Guðný Helgadóttir, Oddbjörg Jónsdóttir, Ingibjörg Örnólfsdóttir, Þórunn Ormsdóttir, Þóra Finnsdóttir, and Agnes Jónsdóttir. The convent declined significantly during the Black Death, and for several years there was no Abbess present. The last Abbess of Reynistaðarklaustur was Solveig Rafnsdóttir. The monastery's lands and properties were confiscated during the introduction of Protestantism, causing Solveig to lose her authority.
The Abbess at Bethleham was Mother Cicely Dillon, a sister of Sir James Dillon (officer) and both children of Theobald Dillon, 1st Viscount Dillon. At Galway the Abbess was, successively, Mary Gabriel Martyn, Mary Clare Kennedy, and Mary during 1647-50, being succeeded by her sister Catherine. The convent was located in or near what is now St. Augustine Street.
Kunigunde as a nun When Kunigunde returned to Prague she returned to her religious life. She joined the Monastery of St. George, later becoming abbess. During this period, Kunigunde commissioned a luxurious illuminated manuscript, which is known today as the Passional of Abbess Kunigunde. Wencelaus had died in 1305 and his own son, Wenceslaus III of Bohemia became King of Bohemia and Poland.
For the earlier Abbess of Coldingham, see Æbbe the Elder. Saint Æbbe of Coldingham [also Ebbe, Aebbe, Abb], also known as "Æbbe the Younger", (died 2 April 870) was an Abbess of Coldingham Priory in south-east Scotland. Like many of her fellow female saints of Anglo-Saxon England, little is known about her life. She presided over the Benedictine Abbey at Coldingham.
She succeeded Mildrith as the abbess around 733, and presided over about seventy nuns. During her time as an abbess she was able to secure royal charters for the abbey,Dunbar, Alice. A Dictionary of Saintly Women, 1904 as well as having a new church (saints Peter and Paul) built there, to provide a shrine for the relics of St Mildrith.
The nuns of this convent honoured as a saint their founding abbess, Agnese Firrao (died 1854), although this had been forbidden by the holy office in 1816, which had convicted the abbess of "false sanctity", or pretending to be a saint.Wolf, Hubert: The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio. The True Story of a Convent in Scandal. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.
The earliest documented advocates of the abbey, from the twelfth-century onwards, were members of the House of Ascania, starting probably with Albert the Bear. The second abbess of Gernrode was Adelaide I (r.1014-1044), daughter of Otto II. Adelaide was already abbess of Quedlinburg (r.999-1044), and at this time, Gernrode was closely connected with the abbey of Quedlinburg.
It is suggested that he has had previous love interests before, including Donna Laura. Although in love with Maddalena, Marcello accidentally confesses his love to the wrong woman (the Abbess herself). This results in the Abbess taking her revenge on the lovers. Marietta (Donna Orsini) is Maddalena's closest friend of the convent, however this becomes difficult when Marietta takes the veil.
Fitzjames in One Hour, or The Carnival Ball Louise Fitzjames was a 19th- century ballerina. She was born on 10 December 1809 in Paris, and danced at Paris Opera from 1832 to 1846. When Marie Taglioni dropped out of Meyerbeer's Robert le diable after a few appearances, Fitzjames took on Taglioni's role of the Abbess. She danced the Abbess over 230 times.
Sister Cecily Dillon (c. 1603 – 1653) was an Irish co-foundress and first abbess of the Irish Poor Clares in Dublin, Ballinacliffey and Athlone.
Agnes II (Agnes of Meissen; 1139 - 21 January 1203) was a member of the House of Wettin who reigned as Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg.
The princes of Anhalt refused to appoint a new abbess and completed the incorporation of Gernrode into their territory.Schulze, Das Stift Gernrode, pp. 50f.
Wilfrida also known as Wulfthryth (died 1000), was a Catholic female saint and abbess from Anglo-Saxon England who was venerated locally in Wiltshire.
The E and F versions of the Chronicle record her as "Abbot Leofwine", but the C and D versions have her as "Abbess Leofrun".
In 1544, she became abbess for a second term. During her reign, Remiremont was forced to submit to the sovereignty of the Duchy of Lorraine.
29 November 1325 to Duke Bolesław the Elder of Niemodlin. #Margareta (b. ca. 1313 – d. 8 March 1379), Abbess of St. Clara in Wrocław (1359).
The name 'Abbotswood' is derived from 'the abbess [of Romsey]’s wood'; it was recorded as Abbys wode in 1513 and Abbes wood in 1565.
Abbey website Mother Myriam led the community until 8 December 1989. The current Abbess is Mother Kathy de Vico, O.C.S.O., who was elected in 2000.
Saint Bertha of Artois or Saint Bertha of Blangy (mid 7th century - July 4, 725) was a Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Abbess of noble blood.
Saint Æthelburh (died after 686) or Ethelburga, founder and first Abbess of the double monastery of Barking, was the sister of Earconwald, Bishop of London.
Elisabeth Countess of Nassau-Hadamar (died 30 December 1412) was an abbess in Essen. After some conflict, she was accepted as ruler of the city.
Gerdeka Hartlevsdotter, or Hartlefsdotter, also called Gerdica (1370-1438), was a Swedish Bridgettine nun. She was the abbess of Vadstena Abbey from 1403 until 1422.
Renée de Dinteville, (15??-1580), was a German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France. She belonged to the local noble family of courtiers in Lorraine, and she was elected Coadjutrice in 1565, and succeeded as abbess in 1570, upon pressure from duke Charles III of Lorraine. She was forced to accept Barbara of Salm as her successor in 1579.
Jeanne II d'Anglure (died 1505), was a German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France between 1474–1505. She was made Dame Doyenne during the reign of Alix de Paroye in 1453–1473. After the death of Paroye, Catherine de Neufchatel was elected abbess, but never confirmed as such. Instead, Jeanne II was elected and installed in the office.
Described by the Liber Eliensis as a "pretiosa virago" (precious lady- warrior)Fairweather, Liber Eliensis, p. 376. she succeeded as abbess when Æthelthryth died, probably of plague, in 679.Williams et al, Dark Age Britain, p. 30. Seaxburh's previous political experience in East Anglia and Kent would have been useful in preparing her for the role of abbess at the double monastery at Ely.
Because of this, she asked for and received papal confirmation of the benefice. Her troubles, however, continued when a certain nun, Sister Eufrasia, her community's sub-vicaress who desired to take over as abbess, defamed Vázquez to the other nuns. These false accusations reached the ears of the Franciscan Minister Provincial who deposed her as abbess. She obeyed and exhorted the sisters to accept his decision.
Sister Eufrasia did not last long as abbess. She fell gravely ill and admitted her sin of envy and of defaming Vázquez, who, in 1523, was renamed the abbess of the community. In 1524, an illness left her paralyzed, but she continued preaching. Slowly, she who had called herself “God’s trumpet” became “God’s guitar.” Vázquez died on 3 May 1534 at the age of 53.
Cecily Bodenham (died after 1543), was the last abbess of Wilton Abbey. Her tenure as abbess was from 1534 to 25 March 1539, when she surrendered the abbey to the commissioners of King Henry VIII of England during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. She received a generous pension and a property at Fovant, where she retired with about ten of the nuns from Wilton.
Remains of Eadburh, Abbess of Repton and daughter of Ealdwulf of East Anglia were buried in Southwell's Saxon church.D. W. Rollason, "List of Saints' Resting Places in Anglo-Saxon England", Anglo-Saxon England 7, 1978, p. 89. Eadburh was appointed Abbess under the patronage of King Wulfhere of Mercia. She appears in the Life of Guthlac and is thought to have died about AD 700.
Eulalia (died c.1106?) was a French nun who became abbess of the monastery at Shaftesbury (Dorset, England) in 1074. She is mentioned in a few contemporary documents including a charter in 1089 and a charter of King Stephen. She is also mentioned in the 1122-23 obituary rolls of Vitalis, abbot of Savigny and in the 1113 roll of Matilda, abbess of Caen.
Saint Mechtildis was a Benedictine abbess and renowned miracle worker. Mechtildis was the daughter of Count Berthold of Andechs, whose wife, Sophie, founded a monastery on their estate at Diessen, Bavaria, and placed their daughter there at the age of five.St. Mechtildis Catholic Online In 1153, the Bishop of Augsburg placed her as Abbess of Edelstetten Abbey. Mechtildis was known for her mystical gifts and miracles.
The convent suffered economic difficulties, and had difficulty paying taxes to support the Turkish wars. At one point during the Protestant Reformation the community was reduced to the abbess Dorothea Rumpf and two other nuns. They later received support from the Göss Abbey, including the Abbess Afra von Staudach (1562), which helped renew the community. By 1683 the convent had 31 nuns and 16 lay sisters.
Beatrice I, also known as Beatrice of Franconia (; 1037 – 13 July 1061), was Abbess of Gandersheim Abbey from 1043 and Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg Abbey from 1044 until her death. Beatrix was born in Italy towards the end of 1037 as the only child of the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III and his first wife, Gunhilda of Denmark, who died about six months after Beatrice's birth.
Beaulieu tells the Mother Superior (Abbess) that she works for the French Red Cross. A novice nun at the convent is grieving the death of another nun. Confined to her cell, she engages in morning prayer. Later the Abbess discloses to Beaulieu that several nuns at the convent were raped by Russian soldiers, relating that the experience was nightmarish, and they wish to keep this a secret.
The convent received the title of Triumphs of the Blessed Sacrament, a name inspired by one of Sister Ursula's visions. Sister Ursula Micaela held the office of vicaress (vicaria or deputy abbess) of the convent until 1699, when she was elected abbess, an office she held until her death. These later experiences are not recorded in her Autobiography, since she left off writing it in 1684.
In 1032, Duke Alain III of Brittany founded the Benedictine abbey of Saint George on behalf of his sister Adèle, a Benedictine nun who became the convent's first abbess. The abbey thrived for several centuries. Magdelaine de la Fayette was the 38th abbess, holding this position from 1663 to 1688. In the 1660s she commissioned the architect Pierre Corbineau to design a new building.
574 That same year, as Ealdred was returning to England he met Sweyn, a son of Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and probably absolved Sweyn for having abducted the abbess of Leominster Abbey in 1046.Barlow Godwins p. 55 Through Ealdred's intercession, Sweyn was restored to his earldom, which he had lost after abducting the abbess and murdering his cousin Beorn Estrithson.Rex Harold II p.
In addition, they saved money on set building and space rental by using abandoned industrial locations and condemned buildings soon to be demolished as sets. An advantage to this approach was that it added a layer of realism to the production. The disadvantage was that it restricted where director Shane Abbess could place the camera. Abbess crammed the camera into corners to shoot scenes.
The Mother Abbess joins her in song ("My Favorite Things"). The Mother Abbess tells her that she should spend some time outside the abbey to decide whether she is suited for the monastic life. She will act as the governess to the seven children of a widower, Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine Captain Georg von Trapp. Maria arrives at the villa of Captain von Trapp.
Walatta Petros continued as the abbess of her mobile religious community, leading it with her woman friend Ǝḫətä Krəstos and without male leadership. After a three-month illness, Walatta Petros died on November 23, 1642 CE (Ḫədar 17), at the age of 50, twenty-six years after becoming a nun. Her friend Ǝḫətä Krəstos succeeded her as abbess of her religious community, until her death in 1649.
An abbess or abbot, typically a senior monastic still young enough to be active, is usually responsible for the day-to-day administration of the monastery, and may appoint others to assist with the work. In some traditions, the abbess/abbot is chosen by a vote of the monastics in a monastery. In other traditions (Thailand, for example), the abbot is chosen by the lay community.
Eva von Isenburg (died 1531) was sovereign Princess-Abbess of Thorn Abbey from 1486 until 1531. She was born to Gerlach II von Isenburg-Grenzau and Hildgard von Sirck of Meinsberg and Frauenberg. She was elected to succeed Gertrudis de Sombreffe as ruling princess abbess. From 1486 until 1502, she was in conflict with Amalia van Rennenberg, who claimed the right to her office.
Adelheid (attested from 1211 to 1233) was abbess of the Benedictine monastery of Saint John Abbey, Müstair, Switzerland. She is the first abbess of that monastery known by name. According to 15th century tradition, she belonged to the noble family of von Neiffen. Under her leadership, a blood miracle made the abbey a pilgrimage site, and the hospice of Santa Maria Val Müstair was constructed.
The 14th-century Bridgittines were purposely founded using this form of community. In the Roman church, monks and nuns would live in separate buildings but were usually united under an Abbess as head of the entire household, examples include the original Coldingham Priory in Scotland, Barking Abbey in London, and Einsiedeln Abbey and Fahr Convent in separate cantons of Switzerland, controlled by the male abbot of Einsiedeln without a converse arrangement for the prioress of Fahr whereas more commonly a female abbess ruled over the two communities.Lawrence 52. In most English and many Continental instances the abbess tended to be a princess or widowed queen.
The Cross of Mathilde in the Essen Cathedral Treasury The Cross of Mathilde (; ) is an Ottonian processional cross in the crux gemmata style which has been in Essen in Germany since it was made in the 11th century. It is named after Abbess Mathilde (died in 1011) who is depicted as the donor on a cloisonné enamel plaque on the cross's stem. It was made between about 1000, when Mathilde was abbess, and 1058, when Abbess Theophanu died; both were princesses of the Ottonian dynasty. It may have been completed in stages, and the corpus, the body of the crucified Christ, may be a still later replacement.
The Cross of Mathilde, which Abbess Theophanu had made in memory of Mathilde Mathilde's direct successor was Sophia, a daughter of Otto II. She was probably a substitute for her sister Matilda who had been educated in Essen but had then been married to Ezzo and therefore could not be abbess. Her appointment was probably also a political decision, since Sophia had been educated in Gandersheim by the sister of Henry the Wrangler and was a partisan of Henry II, so she assured Henry of political control over Essen Abbey and against the Rheinish opposition.Beuckers, Marsusschrein, p. 46. Sophia preferred Gandersheim Abbey, which she had been Abbess of since 1002.
The woman is said to be named Giacinta who follows Maddalena into the garden where she gives her a manuscript describing her predicament. Meeting again with Vivani, Marcello discovers that Vivani was also attacked after being cheated by a pair of sisters whom he was pursuing. Marcello tells him about his love for Maddalena (as his oath is to keep the Abbess’ secret). The conte later returns to Santa Maria to fulfil his commitment to the Abbess and on arrival gets drunk in order to become unconscious. Awoken at four in the morning by the Abbess’ kiss, he is led part of the way.
The first abbess was Altfrid's kinswoman, Gerswit. Apart from the abbess, the canonesses did not take vows of perpetual celibacy, and were able to leave the abbey to marry; they lived in some comfort in their own houses, wearing secular clothing except when performing clerical roles such as singing the Divine Office. A chapter of male priests were also attached to the abbey, under a dean. In the medieval period, the abbess exercised the functions of a bishop, except for the sacramental ones, and those of a ruler, over the very extensive estates of the abbey, and had no clerical superior except the pope.
This is the abbess of the disavowed, Catholic, oasis-based convent in which Switters comes to stay in for over a year later in the book.
On Broadway she won a Tony Award for her portrayal of the Mother Abbess in the original production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music.
The beneficiaries of this elevation included his descendants and his sister (the abbess Auguste Marie at Herford Abbey), but not other counts and countesses of Stolberg.
Ingegerd Knutsdotter (1356 – September 14, 1412) was a Swedish nun and noble, the first official abbess of the Bridgettine Abbey of Vadstena in 1385/88–1403.
Her brother, St. Agilbert, was bishop of Paris. Agilberta's sister, St. Balda, was Jouarre's third abbess. Agilberta's feast day is August 10. She died in 680.
Françoise Bette (1593–1666) was, from 1637 to 1666, the 26th abbess of Forest Abbey.Ursmer Berlière et al., Monasticon Belge, vol. 4 (Liège, 1964), p. 211.
In 1132 Kildare monastery was destroyed by Diarmait Mac Murchada /Diarmait MacMurrough, King of Laighin, when he forced the abbess to marry one of his followers and installed his niece as abbess. It was the end of the only major Irish church office open to women, in 1152 the Synod of Kells deprived the Abbess of Kildare of traditional precedence over bishops and when the last abbess of Kildare, Sadb ingen Gluniarainn Meic Murchada, (niece of Diarmait Mac Murchada), died in 1171 the Norman invasion of Ireland brought the famous abbacy to an end. Gerald of Wales/ Giraldus Cambrensis visited Kildare in 1186 and described the (later lost) Book of Kildare as the "dictation of an angel." He also recorded the sacred fire of Kildare, the pagan nature of which was subject of iconoclastic suspicion as early as 1220 when it was extinguished by Henry de Londres, archbishop of Dublin.
Marguerite III de Neufchâtel, (1480-1544), was a German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France. She ruled from 1528 to 1544.
530-531, no. 746 (14 February 1287). and the election of an abbess at S. Croix in Poitiers.Maurice Prou, Les Registres d' Honorius IV (Paris 1888), pp.
Dame Mary Joseph Butler (December 1641 – 22 December 1723) was the first Irish Abbess of the Irish Benedictine Abbey of Our Lady of Grace, at Ypres, Flanders.
Anne Charlotte de Lorraine-Brionne (1755-1786), was a German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the Imperial Remiremont Abbey in France. She was the daughter of Louis III Lorraine-Harcourt-Armagnac, duc de Lorraine-Harcourt, comte Armagnac, and Louise de Rohan. She was elected Coadjutrice in 1775 and succeeded as abbess in 1782. She visited the abbey for the first time in 1784 and rarely after that.
Only after a papal dispensation from the residence requirement was obtained, and Joseph II had impounded the Abbey's possessions, did the chapter concede and admitted Maria Kunigunde as a collegiate lady. At this point, the debate was no longer about appointing her abbess, but about preserving the dignity of the imperial court. The court had already decided that she would be installed as abbess in Essen and Thorn.
He hears that the nuns at St. Ursula (the convent Sophia came from) raise tulips in their gardens. Jan attempts to steal some of the bulbs, but is knocked out by the abbess of St. Ursula. When he regains consciousness, he apologises and the abbess gives him the bulbs Willem had bought before he was thrown into the navy. Maria realizes that she is pregnant with Willem's child.
Agnes Jónsdóttir (died 1507), was the abbess of the Benedictine convent Reynistaðarklaustur in Iceland 1461–1507. Agnes Jónsdóttir was the daughter of the official Jóns Jónssonar búlands and the sister of the abbot Jóns Sigmundssonar lögmanns. She became a member of the order in 1431, and was confirmed as abbess in 1461. During her tenure, she was involved in a conflict with the Bishop of Holar, Ólafs Rögnvaldssonar.
Anna Sophia had a lapse of faith after her sister, Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt, converted to Roman Catholicism. She thought of leaving Quedlinburg to follow her sister's example, but ultimately changed her mind. Despite suffering from "chronic cough", Anna Sophia was elected to succeed Anna Sophia I, Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, in 1681. The new princess-abbess selected Duchess Anna Dorothea of Saxe-Weimar as her coadjutor in 1683.
Relindis (Rilint, Regilindis) was abbess of Hohenburg Abbey from the 1140s or 1150s until her death on 22 August 1167. She was the predecessor of Herrad of Landsberg. She had been abbess at Bergen, Neuburg before she was called to Hohenburg by Frederick I to re-establish the monastery after it had fallen into decay. She introduced the Rule of St. Augustine at Hohenburg and initiated a period of intellectual productivity.
Abbess Gertrude bought or had the nuns copy "all the good books she could get". She is described as a cultured woman of remarkable character, uniting love, gentleness, and piety with practical wisdom, and good sense.Bevan, Frances. Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde, James Nisbet & Co., London, 1896 Under the leadership of the Abbess Gertrude, the monastery at Helfta was highly regarded for its spiritual and intellectual vitality.
The Princess- Abbess and her sister would play the same role in the election of Henry's Salian successor King Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor in 1027. Nonetheless, when Sophia died on 27 January 1039, Conrad II at first denied Adelaide's request to succeed her as abbess of Gandersheim. Upon his death later in that year, King Henry III eventually granted her the right to rule Gandersheim too.
Anna Paulsdotter (died 9 October 1500), was a Swedish Bridgettine nun. She was the abbess of Vadstena Abbey from 1486 until 1496. Anna Paulsdotter was accepted to the order in 1456, became the prioress of the nun's part of the abbey in 1473 and the abbess of the whole double monastery in 1486. In June 1487, she sent an envoy to Rome to apply for the canonization of Catherine of Vadstena.
In the summer of 1924, Hubert and Emma Zervas paid a visit to Mother Louise Walz, O.S.B., the abbess of St. Benedict's. When it became apparent that her condition was terminal, Annella was taken home to Morehead. The abbess was kept apprised of Annella's condition and the nuns of Moorhead visited regularly. In the fall of 1924, careful dieting and osteopathic treatments brought about a remission of Sister Annella's symptoms.
Initially, local land and Abbey Mill were given to Barking Abbey for the maintenance of the bridge, but these properties and the responsibility eventually passed to Stratford Langthorne Abbey. The Abbess of Barking and Abbot of West Ham (i.e. Stratford Langthorne Abbey) argued about the obligation, a dispute that was settled in 1315. West Ham was to maintain the bridge and highway, but the Abbess would pay £200 annually in recompense.
She and at least one of her sisters, possibly Anne Carey, were nuns at Wilton Abbey. On 24 April 1528 the abbess, Cecily Willoughby died. At this point the convent had about fifty nuns and there had already been several rumours of scandalous happenings there. Because of this, Thomas Wolsey wished to make Isabel Jourdain the new abbess since she was reputed to be "ancient, wise and discreet".
Her aunt Aldegonde, her mother's sister, was the first abbess of Maubeuge; Aldetrude was sent into her care as a girl and then succeeded her, and her sister Madelberte was the third abbess. She died and is celebrated on the 25 or 27 February. The exact year of her death is unknown though some sources say c. 696, and she is said to have lived to an advanced age.
The abbey was turned into a Protestant convent. The abbess retained the status of imperial prince and continued to have a seat both at imperial assemblies and in the council of the Upper Saxon Circle. Between 1610 and 1614, members of the House of Anhalt incorporated the remaining possessions of Gernrode into their own domains. The last abbess of Gernrode, Sophie Elisabeth, left the abbey in 1614 in order to marry.
As Barking Abbey only accepted women of noble birth, it is almost certain that Katherine was born into nobility. Her position as Abbess of Barking would have ranked her equivalent to a Baroness in medieval English aristocracy. Katherine held office from 1358 to 1376, during the peak of Barking Abbey’s existence. When she became the abbess of Barking Abbey in 1358, she inherited a very powerful position of authority and publicity.
Kinley's chief accuses the officer of developing romantic feelings for her, and instructs him to stop investigating. Kinley ignores that command, of course. He discovers that the missing abbess' nunnery is sitting on a valuable mineral deposit, and questions Norbu, the geologist who made the discovery, but he has a rock-solid alibi. Kinley runs into Choden on the street, and discovers that the abbess is still alive, in hiding.
This Abbey along with Athelney monastery (for monks) received 1/8 of Alfred's annual revenue in support. It appears to have housed nuns from an upper-class background. Very little is known about Æthelgifu's time as abbess. In Alfred's will, there is mention of two estates left 'to his middle daughter Æthelgifu' at Kingsclere and at Candover in Hampshire, and the will itself makes no mention of her role as abbess.
During the Anglo-Norman civil war, upon hearing the abbey was being used by Duke Robert Curthose as a stable, Robert of Bellême burned it down. The abbess, Bellême's sister Emma, fled with her sister nuns and were housed in surrounding homes or at the monastery of St. Evroul. The following year Emma had the abbey rebuilt. Consequently, the abbey would suffer another fire under Abbess Matilda, Emma's successor.
Saint Franca Visalta (1170–1218), also known as Franca of Piacenza, was a Cistercian abbess. Born in Piacenza, Italy, she became a Benedictine nun in St Syrus Convent at the age of seven and became abbess at a young age. However, she was removed and isolated because of the severe austerities she imposed. Only one nun, Carentia, agreed with Franca's discipline and she moved to a Cistercian convent in Rapallo.
Abbess Theuthild (or Theuthilde, or Thiathildis) was a ninth-century abbess of the important convent of Remiremont in the Vosges. According to Michele Gaillard, Theuthild was responsible for a process of reform at the convent.Michele Gaillard, 'Abbes et abbesses comme ressources dans les reformes monastiques en Haute-Lotharingie', in Steven Vanderputten, ed., Abbots and Abbesses as a Human Resource in the Ninth- to Twelfth-Century West (2018), pp.
Alice Baldwin (died 1546) was the last Abbess of Burnham Abbey near Burnham, Buckinghamshire. She was the daughter of Sir John Baldwin, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
The Abbess Helena orders the ghosts to waltz. In spite of their sacred vows, the nuns waltz. The dead nuns give themselves over to unholy thrills. Robert enters.
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In the course of time, he founded nine other monasteries, including one for women under the abbess Benedicta.Meier, Gabriel. "St. Fructuosus of Braga." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 6.
In another story, dating from the time of Herman, bishop of Sherborne, an abbess complained to the bishop that Edith was not protecting them. After she said this, however, the abbess's cousin had a dream of Edith, in which Edith asked why the abbess had said these things, and Edith had glowing hands and said, "Whatever I want to do with divine aid, I can", and after this was reported to the abbess, she made public repentance of her words. Edith's feast day is on 16 September, the day of, or the day after the date of her death,Francis Goldie, Saints of Wessex and Wiltshire (1885) p. 28 although it has also been reported as 15 September.
Marguerite Louise frequently requested more money from the Grand Duke, while he was scandalised by her behaviour: she took up with a groom named Gentilly.Acton, p. 149. In January 1680 the Abbess of Montemarte asked Cosimo to pay for the construction of a reservoir, following a scandal at the convent: The Grand Duchess had placed her pet dog's basket in close proximity to the fire, and the basket burst into flames, but instead of trying to extinguish it, she urged her fellow nuns to flee for their lives. On previous occasions, she had explicitly stated that she would burn down the convent if the Abbess disagreed with her, too, making the Abbess view the accident as an intentional.
The abbey had the income from one third of the crown taxed fishing in Norrköping. The abbess of the abbey also had the right to appoint the priest of Sankt Olai kyrka at Norrköping in Östergötland which often caused conflicts with that city. In 1462, the Abbess Anna Jacobi and the nuns were given an official thanks from the Pope after their assistance to his envoy Martinus de Fregano, who had visited Sweden to gather funds for a crusade against the Ottoman Turks. In the late 15th century the discipline was lax; the abbess received guests in her personal chambers, and in 1490 the nuns were threatened with interdict for socializing with the outside world.
The abbey took its name, meaning mountain slope, from its location at the foot of the Montagne de St-Symphorien. In 1554 the abbey provided refuge to Charlotte I de Monceaux, the abbess of the neighboring Abbey of Saint-Paul, whose election as abbess was opposed by Henry II. She fled to Pentemont after the arrival of the king's soldiers at her own abbey. However, they followed her to Pentemont and demanded by force that she renounce her position, a request to which she was compelled to accede. In 1671, after the abbey was damaged in a flood, and for economic and geographical reasons, the abbess Hélène de Tourville moved the abbey to Paris.
He told his foreman about his dream and gift and was taken immediately to see the abbess, believed to be St Hilda of Whitby. The abbess and her counsellors asked Cædmon about his vision and, satisfied that it was a gift from God, gave him a new commission, this time for a poem based on "a passage of sacred history or doctrine", by way of a test. When Cædmon returned the next morning with the requested poem, he was invited to take monastic vows. The abbess ordered her scholars to teach Cædmon sacred history and doctrine, which after a night of thought, Bede records, Cædmon would turn into the most beautiful verse.
Denise asks the abbess to talk with her fiancé in order to "guide him on the right path," and in a private conversation she reveals her identity to him.
Landgravine Anna Sophia of Hesse-Darmstadt (17 December 1638 – 13 December 1683) was a German noblewoman who reigned as Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg under the name Anna Sophia II.
Agnes of Limburg-Styrum (18 September 1563 at Castle de Wildenborch in Bronckhorst - 2 January 1645 in Vreden) was abbess of the abbeys at Elten, Vreden. Borghorst, and Freckenhorst.
The monastery of Brigit of Kildare at Kildare, Ireland, was a double monastery, with both men and women, supervised by an Abbess, a pattern found in other monastic foundations.
Constance received the city of Glogów as her dower, according to her husband's will. Soon after, she entered the Poor Clares monastery of Stary Sącz, where she became abbess.
Wulfhilda (also known as Wulfhild and Wulfreda among several other names) was an Anglo-Saxon abbess and a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Saint Edburga of Minster-in-Thanet (also known as Eadburh and Bugga) was a princess of Wessex, and abbess of Minster-in-Thanet. She is regarded as a saint.
Henrica van Erp (c. 1480 – 26 December 1548), was a Dutch abbess and author of her monastery's Chronicle, making her one of the first historians of 16th- century Netherlands.
Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (Maria Christina Anna Theresa Salomea Eulalia Francisca Xaveria; 12 February 1735 - 19 November 1782) was a Princess of Saxony and later Abbess of Remiremont.
1369) # Jutta (d. 1388), married to Duke Bogislaw VI of Pomerania (d. 1393) # Mechthild (died after 1405), Abbess of Wienhausen Abbey It is an ancestor of Anne of Cleves.
By this time, however, the Abbess Anna Maria de Crombrugge, displaying remarkable prescience, had succeeded in removing and safeguarding many of the abbey's valuable manuscripts and other important documents.
Sister M. Madeleva Wolff, C.S.C., (May 24, 1887 – July 25, 1964), the "lady abbess of nun poets", was the third President of Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana.
She declined the offer by saying that she was sure that he was not serious. Sophia Albertina travelled to Quedlinburg in 1787, and took her oath as abbess on 15 October. As Princess-Abbess, she was active in the rule of the city of Quedlinburg, and her rule has been described as a popular one. She founded schools for poor children, established the first theatre in the city, and increased the salary of the clergy.
While at Chelles, Louise Adélaïde showed a slight interest in Jansenism. During the Regency of Louis XV, Louise Adélaïde was seen as the preeminent religious figure in the country. In 1719, she became the Abbess of Chelles, a post she held until her death. She was also the Abbess of Val-de-Grâce, a church built under the auspices of her maternal and paternal great-grandmother, Anne of Austria, the wife of King Louis XIII.
The provisions for the unmarried daughters and widows of nobles and wealthy townspeople soon became the focus of the life of the community. Private property became common, contrary to the rules of the order, while the number of lay servants decreased. Under Abbess Margaretha von Brandenstein (c. 1460-1503), the abbey saw a last short period of prosperity, because the abbess succeeded in paying off the nunnery's debts and began several construction projects.
In 1524, against the will of the last abbess, Margaretha von Zedtwitz, the nuns insisted on a Lutheran preacher. A year later, when the abbess died, the officials of John, Elector of Saxony, appointed an administrator over the abbey's property. Of the 14 nuns, five left for a life in the world; of those who remained, the last died in 1572. The abbey's territory passed into the hands of the rulers of Coburg.
Hildegard of Bingen, a Medieval German abbess who wrote Causae et Curae, 1175. During the Middle Ages, convents were a centralized place of education for women, and some of these communities provided opportunities for women to contribute to scholarly research. An example is the German abbess Hildegard of Bingen, whose prolific writings include treatments of various scientific subjects, including medicine, botany and natural history (c.1151–58). She is considered Germany's first female physician.
Guo Xiang is the sole descendant of the Guo family from The Return of the Condor Heroes after the Battle of Xiangyang. She escapes from Xiangyang with the Heaven Reliant Sword (倚天劍), becomes a powerful martial artist and roams the jianghu as a youxia. At the age of 40, she becomes a nun and founds the Emei Sect. Abbess Fengling becomes her successor, who in turn, is succeeded by Abbess Miejue.
Seal used by Eleanor during her time as abbess In 1290 she moved to Fontevrault Abbey in the Loire region of France, the parent abbey of the order, where she took her vows and became a nun in March 1291. The richly illuminated Fontevraud Gradual was presented to her upon her induction. In 1304 she became abbess. Soon after 1313, Eleanor’s cousin, Mary of Woodstock, was removed from her role as visitor of Amesbury Priory.
The abbess, as head of an Imperial Abbey, had seat and voice at the Imperial Diet. She sat on the Bench of the Prelates of the Rhineland of the Ecclesiastical Bench of the College of Ruling Princes.G. Benecke, Society and Politics in Germany, 1500-1750, Routledge & Kegan Paul and University of Toronto Press, London, Toronto and Buffalo, 1974, Appendix III. During the Reformation the abbey became Protestant, under Abbess Anna II (Countess of Stolberg).
On 14 January 1727, Henriette Louise took the veil at the Abbey of Beaumont-lès-Tours. She became the abbess of the convent in 1733 at the age of thirty. While abbess, she was known as Her Serene Highness, Madame de Bourbon. Beaumont-lès-Tours had previously been under the control of her second cousin, Gabrielle, daughter of Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart, who was the older brother of Madame de Montespan.
As an abbess, Henriette Louise raised her great-niece, Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon (1757–1824). The young girl had lost her mother, Charlotte de Rohan, at the age of two. Louise Adélaïde later took the veil herself and became the abbess of Remiremont Abbey. Henriette Louise died at the Abbey of Beaumont- lès-Tours in 1772, having outlived all her siblings except for the Princess of Conti, and was buried there on 8 January.
According to A Dictionary of British Place Names, Roding derives from "Rodinges", as is listed in the Domesday Book and recorded earlier as such at c.1050, with the later variation 'Roinges Abbatisse' recorded in 1237. The 'Abbess' refers to the manorial possession by a man called 'Aitrop' held under the ownership of the Abbess of Barking Abbey.Mills, Anthony David (2003); A Dictionary of British Place Names, Oxford University Press, revised edition (2011), p.392.
Abbess Roding In the Domesday account Abbess Roding is listed as in the Hundred of Ongar. The manor held 18 households, seven villagers, two smallholders, five slaves, and one freeman, with 2 lord's plough teams, 3.5 men's plough teams, of meadow, and a woodland with 20 pigs. In 1066 there were 10 cattle, 40 pigs, 100 sheep and a cob. In 1086 there were 14 cattle, 60 pigs, 131 sheep, and three cobs.
Aungier, p.27 (Monasterium in the original Latin). This name was quoted slightly differently by the Abbess and Convent in their petition of 1431 as “The Monastery of St Saviour and the Saints Mary the Virgin and Bridget of Syon of the Order of St Augustine and of St Saviour”.Aungier, p.52 The funerary brass of Agnes Jordan, Syon's last pre-reformation abbess, describes her as “Sometyme abbesse of the monasterye of Syon”.
Elizabeth Zouche (before 1496-after 1553), was an English abbess. She was the last abbess of Shaftesbury Abbey, a Benedictine nunnery founded by Alfred the Great which was one and largest and richest in England. It was she who had to sign the deed of surrender on 23 March 1539 which brought to an abrupt end the 650 year life of the abbey and granted all its property and wealth to Henry VIII.
In 1143 Melisende built a convent dedicated to St. Lazarus at Bethany, on land purchased from the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. After the death of the elderly first abbess, Ioveta was elected to the position in 1144. Though not as influential as her sisters, she had some power as abbess; a charter from 1157 survives in which she donated land to the Knights Hospitaller. Ioveta was responsible for the education of her grandniece Sibylla.
As a child she was raised by her aunt amongst the nuns at Hohenburg. Later she became a nun herself, and when Odilia founded the abbey of Niedermünster, Gundelina became a nun there (c. 717). With the death of her aunt Gundelina, succeeded her as abbess of Niedermünster (723), whilst her two elder sisters remained at Hohenburg where each served as abbess. At her own death Gundelina was succeeded in office by Werentrude.
Abbess, Beauchamp and Berners Roding is a group of three small villages in the County of Essex, England. Collectively they form one civil parish in the Epping Forest district of Essex. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 427, increasing to 481 at the 2011 census. The parish includes Abbess Roding, Beauchamp Roding, and Berners Roding, three of The Rodings, the hamlet of Birds Green, and the small settlement of Nether Street.
The abbey was extinguished by Viking raiding. The next abbess after St Mildred was St Edburga daughter of King Centwine of the West Saxons. The third known abbess was Sigeburh, who was activeWilliam George Searle, onomasticon (Cambridge University Press Archive, 1879) page 418. around 762 AD and is known from the Secgan hagiography and from Royal charters.David Rollason, ‘Mildrith (fl. 716–c. 733)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press,2004).
Marie de Cambolas (1694-1757), was a French abbess. She was the founding abbess of the Comunauté des Religieuses Filles de Notre Dame du Cap-Francais in Cap-Francais in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1731-1757. Marie de Cambolas was born in Toulouse as the daughter of François de Cambolas, a member of the Toulouse Parliament. She joined the Abbey of the Ordre des Religieuses de Notre-Dames in Toulouse in 1717.
Matthew Paris, Chronica Majora (Rolls Ser.), i, 302. taking with her Ælfflæd and ten nuns. Hilda was now technically abbess of both monasteries, but she lived at Streaneshalch.Smith, L.A., 2007.
Her youngest sister, Anne Charlotte, whom she never met, was later Abbess of Remiremont. At the time of her death, her mother was pregnant with a future Queen of Sardinia.
The nuns hide, but return to prevent his escape. Robert stands terrified before a saint's tomb. The Abbess lures him towards the talisman in the saint's hand. Robert seizes it.
His daughter, Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon, who was a nun and had become the abbess of Remiremont Abbey, survived until 1824. He was buried at the Basilica of St Denis.
Gryfina, or Agrippina (c. 1248between 1305 and 1309) was a Princess of Kraków by her marriage to Leszek II the Black in 1265; she later became a nun and abbess.
Additional evidence of her death includes the transfer before 1093 of her nieces to Wilton Abbey for further education and the appointment of Eadgyth as the next abbess of Romsey Abbey.
A prioress is a monastic superior for nuns, usually lower in rank than an abbess. Abbesses and prioresses may also be known as "mother superior". They remain influential within the church.
The life- sized Black Abbess was found walled up in the tower during the 19th-century renovation. She is believed to depict a crusader's widow dating from the late 13th century.
From 1988 to 2011, Mother Theresa Brenninkmeyer was the prioress, later abbess, of a convent in Denmark. Two family members have entered show business, producer Stephan Brenninkmeijer and actor Philippe Brenninkmeyer.
Howard Pyle used this ballad's story for much of the conclusion of The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood, although he kept the older story of the abbess for the actual death.
Venerable Euphrosyne the Abbess of Polotsk. OCA - Feasts and Saints. Euphrosyne is the only virgin saint of East Slav origin. Euphrosyne (or Efrosinia) of Polotsk is a patron saint of Belarus.
Stephen had several children with Sophia, including Meginard I, who succeeded him as count of Sponheim and Jutta, abbess of the Benedictine monastery on Disibodenberg and teacher of Hildegard of Bingen.
Saint Aldegonde (or Adelgonde) ( or Adelgundis) ( 639–684 AD) was a Frankish Benedictine abbess who is honored as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church in France and Eastern Orthodox Church.
On 24 June 1601 Abbess Adrienne had the relics in Forest carried in solemn procession.B. Bossue, "Les Reliques de Sainte Alène", Précis historiques 10/235 (1 October 1861), pp. 447-450.
Princess Christine Charlotte of Hesse-Kassel (11 February 1725 – 4 June 1782) was a Hessian princess who lived as a secular canoness before becoming a coadjutor princess-abbess of Herford Abbey.
At the request of the last abbess, Countess Magdalena of Stolberg-Wernigerode, the Evangelical Church Province of Saxony took over the abbey in 1946 as a convalescent home and conference centre.
Walker Harold pp. 127–128. Harold's elder brother Sweyn was exiled in 1047 after abducting the abbess of Leominster. Sweyn's lands were divided between Harold and a cousin, Beorn.Walker Harold p.
Romsey's name is believed to originate from the Old English Rūm's eg, meaning "Rūm's island". Rūm is probably an abbreviation of a personal name like Rūmwald (meaning "glorious leader"), and eg (meaning "island") may have denoted a monastic retreat in the Early Middle Ages, since it is common among religious place names. Alt URL The first church in Romsey was founded by Edward the Elder in 907 AD for his daughter, Ælflæd, a nun who became the first abbess of Romsey. Edgar the Peaceful re-founded the abbey under the Rule of Benedict in 967 AD, appointing as abbess a noblewoman named Merewenna in 974 AD. Merewenna was given charge of Edgar's stepdaughter, Æthelflæd, who later served as abbess herself.
Sibylla was born in Bernburg in 1564. In 1577, her elder sister Anna Maria was relieved from her post as Imperial abbess of Gernrode and Frose in order to marry Joachim Frederick, eldest son and heir of the duke of Brieg; under pressure from her father, the Chapter elected Sibylla as her successor. Sibylla was confirmed in office by the emperor, Rudolph II. During her reign as abbess the only record of her activities comes from an abbey document in which she invests the widow of Stefan Molitor (the first Evangelical Superintendent of the abbey) with a piece of land. In 1581, Sibylla was relieved of her post as abbess in order to marry Frederick, Count of Mömpelgard and heir apparent of the Duchy of Württemberg.
The name "Leob" means "greatly loved", with Leofgyth being from Old Engish léof or líof 'beloved, dear' and gýþ or gúþ 'battle'. It is said that Leofgyth was trained first by abbess Edburga at Minster-in-Thanet,"Leoba, abbess of Tauberbischofsheim", Epistolae: Medieval Women's Latin Letters, Columbia Center for New Media Teaching and Learning, Columbia University but Dame Catherine Wynbourne, O.S.B. says the evidence for this is slight, although Leoba may have periodically visited Thanet.Wynbourne O.S.B., "Leoba: A Study in Humanity and Holiness", Medieval Women Monastics, (Miriam Schmitt, Linda Kulzer, eds.), Liturgical Press, 1996 She entered the double monastery of Wimborne Minster as an oblate and was entrusted to the care of the Abbess Tetta. Later, Leoba entered the community as a nun.
In one story, her father visits her in the monastery and she sings for him, and he asks her if there is anything he can do for her, and she asks for him to give the community an estate at Canning, which he does so. In another story, the abbess found her reading alone, which was against the rules of the monastery, and then thrashed her. When the abbess realized it was the princess and not an ordinary nun, the abbess then begged forgiveness from her. In another story, she one time insisted on cleaning the shoes of her well-born companions, and they felt shocked by this and reported it to her father as behaviour that is not right for her.
Lütz inspired the character of the “Mother Abbess”, portrayed by German actress Agnes Windeck, in the original 1956 feature-film on the von Trapp family. In the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music, Lütz was portrayed by Patricia Neway, who won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance. The song Climb Ev'ry Mountain, written by Rodgers and Hammerstein, is sung by the Mother Abbess to Maria, encouraging her to be strong and follow her heart.The Sound of Music (musical) accessed 8-14-2015 In the 1965 film The Sound of Music, the Mother Abbess was portrayed by Peggy Wood, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.
However, the political power of the convent slowly waned in the fourteenth century, beginning with the establishment of the Zunftordnung (guild laws) in 1336 by Rudolf Brun, who also became the first independent mayor, i.e. not assigned by the abbess. The abbey was dissolved on 30 November 1524 in the course of the reformation of Huldrych Zwingli, supported by the last abbess, Katharina von Zimmern. The monastery buildings were destroyed in 1898 to make room for the new Stadthaus.
Dillon left Gravelines with three other Irish nuns in May 1625 to found an Irish convent at Dunkirk, with Eleanor as abbess. In 1627, they moved to Nieuwpoort to found a community there. They wanted to return to Ireland, and with help from the Irish Franciscan priests and their brothers George and Louis, the first Poor Clare convent was established in Dublin in June 1629 with Dillon as abbess. Eleanor had died soon after their return to Dublin.
Dirk married Hildegarde (thought to be a daughter of Count Arnulf of Flanders, based on the names of her children), and had three known children. His son Arnulf became Count of Holland and Frisia after Dirk's death. The younger son Egbert became Archbishop of Trier in 977. His daughter Erlinde (Herlinde) was abbess of Egmond Abbey, until that institution was changed by her father from a nunnery into a monastery, after which she became abbess of Bennebroek.
Miaodao (, died after 1134) was a Chinese Buddhist abbess and master, lüshi. She was a daughter of minister Huang Shang (1044-1130) and became a nun at the age of twenty. She was a student of Zhenxie Qinguao in the Caodong school in Xuefeng, and from 1134 at Dahui Zonggau. She became a noted master and respected lecturer within the Chan Buddhism, served as abbess in several convents and gave lessons particularly but not exclusively to women.
She took refuge in the convent of Gandia fleeing of being married by force. María Enríquez de Luna, Duchess of Gandia entered the convent with the name of Sister Gabriela. She became Abbess of the convent in 1530, and died nine years later. Later, would be his daughter, Sister Francisca de Jesús which was chosen abbess of the convent in 1533, and ruled it until in 1548, he resigned to foundations away from their family environment.
103; Gady 2008, p. 309. From this second marriage, she had three daughters. Two of them became nuns, Anne-Marie of Lorraine (1625–52), abbess of Pont-aux-Dames, and Henriette of Lorraine (1631–93), abbess of Jouarre and later at Port-Royal. The third daughter, Charlotte-Marie of Lorraine (1627–52), having failed to wed Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti, became the mistress of Cardinal de Retz and played a role in the Fronde, but never married.
As the Third Order of St. Francis (Regular) was not yet established, the bishop established their monastery in Montefalco according to the Rule of St. Augustine. Clare made her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and became an Augustinian nun. Her sister Joan was elected as the first abbess, and their small hermitage (built and funded by their father) was dedicated as a monastery. On November 22, 1291, Joan died, after which Clare was elected abbess.
Each Princess-Abbess was, by birth, an Austrian archduchess from the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. With the closing of the neighbouring St. George's Abbey in 1782, the Princess-Abbess of the Theresian Institution inherited the privilege of crowning the Queens of Bohemia. Other administrative roles within the Institution included a deaconess, a sub-deaconess, and two canoness assistants. The Institution closed in 1919 after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the creation of the Republic of Czechoslovakia.
In 1612 she became the Abbess of the prestigious Remiremont Abbey, a Benedictine abbey near Remiremont, Vosges, France. The previous abbess, Elizabeth of Salm, had resigned specifically for Catherine to take the post Remiremont was one of the most important, illustrious and aristocratic Abbey in France and was closely associated with the House of Lorraine. She later became the coadjutor to her niece, Margaret. Margaret had lost her mother in 1627 and went to live with Catherine at Remiremont.
Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach (born 16 May 1696 in Sulzbach; died: 16 July 1776 in Essen) was the Princess-abbess of Essen Abbey and Thorn Abbey. She led Essen Abbey from 1726 to 1776, the longest of any Essen abbess. Her tenure was marked by disputes between the Abbey and the city, which were caused by her counselors. She founded the Princess Francisca Christina Foundation, which still maintains the orphanage she founded in Essen-Steele.
Aldetrude (died c. 696, or 526) was a Christian saint and from 684 was abbess of Maubeuge Abbey in the County of Hainault, now in northern France. She is also known as Aldetrude de Maubeuge, Aldetrude of Maubod, Aldetrudis and Adeltrude. She was one of the four children of Saint Waltrude, also known as Waldetrude, her siblings being Saint Landericus, a bishop of Paris; Saint Dentelin who died very young; and Saint Madelberta, who was also abbess of Maubeuge.
Anna Fickesdotter (Bülow), (died 1519), was a Swedish writer and translator and abbess of the Bridgittine Vadstena Abbey between 1501-1519\. Anna Fickesdotter Bülow was elected abbess of Vadstena convent in 1501 and held that position for eighteen years, until her death. She was active in literary matters and was widely reputed and respected for her learning. She ordered the translation of the suffering of Christ, the life of John, and the predictions of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary.
She is likely to have become abbess just before the year 1500; the last abbess known before her was Oddný, who was mentioned in office in 1488. Her niece Oddný later joined her as a nun in the convent. She was the aunt of Gissur Einarsson, and is known to have supported his studies and career, which eventually resulted in him becoming Bishop of Skálholt in 1540. She retracted her support when he began to study Luther.
In the Liber Ordinarius, a manuscript of Essen created around 1300, Mathilde is called Mater ecclesiae nostrae (Mother of our church). Abbess Mathilde was depictedOn the lost west windows of the Minster, which were donated by a member of the Essen order, Mechthild von Hardenburg, between 1275 and 1297. There she was called: : Mechthildis abbatissa huius conventus olim mater pia : Abbess Mechthildis, once pious mother of this convent.Sonja Hermann: Die Essener Inschriften S. 74-75 Nr. 45.
This plaque made of black marble in Antwerp is found on the north wall, east of the side bay and shows the Abbess in her official outfit, surrounded by the coats of arms of her ancestors. The second epitaph is that of the Abbess Anna Salome von Salm- Reifferscheidt, which is attributed to Johann Mauritz Gröninger and is found on the north wall of the organ loft. Because of the war damage, the Minster has no medieval windows.
Princess-Abbess Anna Dorothea Duchess Anna Dorothea of Saxe-Weimar (12 November 1657 - 24 June 1704) reigned as Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg from 1684 until her death. Born in Weimar, Duchess Anna Dorothea was the daughter of John Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and Princess Christine Elisabeth of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg. Her father decided she should pursue an ecclesiastical career when she was still a child. From 1681 until 1684, Anna Dorothea was provost of the Quedlinburg monasteries.
Maria de Taye (died 28 July 1637) was the 25th abbess of Forest Abbey at Vorst in the Duchy of Brabant (now in Belgium) from 29 January 1609 until her death. She was originally from Gooik. During her time as abbess she overstretched the abbey's finances by purchasing a refugium in Brussels. She also commissioned paintings from Hieronymus van Orley to adorn the abbey church, and commissioned an atlas of the abbey's property from the surveyor Filips de Dijn.
The abbess nominated the mayor, and she frequently delegated the minting of coins to citizens of the city. The political power of the convent slowly waned in the 14th century, beginning with the establishment of the ' (guild laws) in 1336 by Rudolf Brun, who also became the first independent mayor, i.e. not nominated by the abbess. An important event in the early 14th century was the completion of the Manesse Codex, a key source of medieval German poetry.
Lady Chapel At Gloucester Cathedral. St Margaret's Well, Binsey, Oxfordshire. Frithuswith (c. 65019 October 727; ; also known as Frideswide, Fridiswade, Frideswith, Fritheswithe, Frevisse, or simply Fris) was an English princess and abbess.
Since she was of Imperial descent, the incumbent Abbess of Chiemssee had the right to wear a thin golden hoop, resembling a little crown. Modern-era Abbesses, however, refrain from doing so.
She was active at the Wiener Staatsoper in Vienna in 1873—1878. Her best known parts were La magniola, Polka coquette, Valse, Jalousie de metier, Polka mazurka and the abbess in Robert.
In 720, he entrusted his eleven-year- old daughter Walpurga to the abbess of Wimborne in Dorset,Casanova, Gertrude. "St. Walburga." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912.
His Adoration of the Magi can be seen in the church of St. Martin. Katharina von Zimmern (1478-1547), the last abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey in Zürich, was born in Meßkirch.
Eufemia Szaniawska, Abbess of the Benedictine Monastery in Nieśwież with a crosier, c. 1768, National Museum in Warsaw The crosier is the symbol of the governing office of a bishop or Apostle.
In 1587, the first officially Protestant abbess was installed, and in 1616 the community stopped wearing Cistercian habits, although it had a reputation for secret leanings to Catholicism for many years afterwards.
In 1518, she was elected abbess by a majority of votes from the monks but a minority of votes from the nuns of the double convent, but the bishop granted her the election victory and had her installed as abbess. She hosted king Christian II of Denmark in 1521. In circa 1526, the famous scandal about Liten Agda och Olof Tyste was to have taken place at the abbey, and the following year, when the Swedish Reformation was introduced, king Gustav I of Sweden gave instructions to the abbess through Bishop Hans Brask, with reference to the scandalous elopement of the nun Agda, who had been placed in the abbey against her will, with her lover Olof, that no-one should be allowed to become a nun at the abbey in the future without permission from the monarch.Historiskt bibliotek utgifvet af Carl Silfverstolpe The existing members were also given royal permission to leave the convent if the wished to do so: some of the younger nuns made use of this permit, and the abbess Anna Germundsdotter was forbidden to stop them.
In October 995 Adelaide became a canoness in Quedlinburg. When Abbess Matilda died on 7 February 999, she was elected her successor and consecrated on Michaelmas (September 28) by Bishop Arnulf of Halberstadt.
Anna Germundsdotter or Girmundsdotter (Latin; Anna Germundi, died 23 March 1538) was a Swedish writer and Roman Catholic nun of the Bridgettine order and abbess of the Vadstena Abbey from 1518 until 1529.
Ioveta (c. 1120 - after 1161, before 1178), was a princess of Jerusalem and an Abbess of Bethany. Her name appears in various forms, including Joveta, Jovita, Jowita, Yvette, Iveta, Ivetta, and even Juditta.
Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate (18 April 1622 – 11 February 1709) was a painter and abbess. She was a daughter of Frederick V of the Palatinate and King of Bohemia, and Elizabeth Stuart.
Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (Maria Anna Ferdinanda Josepha Charlotte Johanna; 21 April 1770 – 1 October 1809) was an Archduchess of Austria by birth, and an Abbess at the Theresian Convent in Prague.
26 June 1295), Abbess at Owińska. # Euphemia of Greater Poland (1253 - 5 September 1298), twin of Anna; a nun at St. Clara, Wrocław. # Przemysł II (b. posthumously, 14 October 1257 - 8 February 1296).
Saint Thecla of Kitzingen (Tecla of England, Heilga) (died ca. 790 AD) was a Benedictine nun and abbess. Born in England, she went to Germany to assist Saint Boniface in his missionary labors.
After Charles the Fat's forces took Vienne in 882, Engelberga was allowed to return to Italy. In 896, she became abbess of her own foundation of San Sisto, Piacenza, but died shortly afterward.
The legend is described in Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, which celebrates the saintly virtues of Æthelthryth, but speaks less highly of Seaxburh, referring only to her marriage, succession as abbess and translation of her sister's relics. The date of Seaxburh's death at Ely is not known. The surviving versions of the Vita Sexburge, compiled after 1106, describe her early life, marriage to Eorcenberht, retirement from secular life and her final years as a nun and abbess at Ely.
The narrative switches to before the election of Abbess, to times soon before and soon after the death of the former abbess, Hildegarde. Most of the humour derives from Alexandra's implacable calm in the face of chaos and her guileful and downright Machiavellian treatment of her rival, Felicity, and the rest of the convent population. This includes the continuation of Hildegarde's video and audio surveillance systems, used to monitor all the nuns' activities, including Felicity's amorous romps in the garden.
According to the chronicles by Thietmar of Merseburg, Sophia was born to Emperor Otto II and Theophanu. She may have been the first surviving daughter, born in 975, though other sources indicate that her sister Adelaide, born 977, was in fact the eldest. Sophia is first documented in a 979 deed of donation, when her father entrusted her education to his first cousin, Abbess Gerberga II of Gandersheim. Sophia was raised and educated in Gandersheim Abbey to become abbess from childhood.
She outlived all of her siblings apart from her sister Dowager Princess of Conti and grand mother of the future Philippe Égalité. Dying in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif, she was buried at the Abbey of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs. Her sister Henriette Louise de Bourbon was an abbess at Beaumont-lès-Tours and a cousin Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans was the Abbess of Chelles. The Abbey at Saint-Antoine is now the home of the Hôpital Saint-Antoine outside Paris.
In Merovingian Gaul, founding a monastery was a noble family's way of expressing and reinforcing its power. The founder gave the land, and retained the right to appoint the abbot or abbess, but also guaranteed its protection. Regine Le Jan describes it as part of the family's honor. The ruling abbot/abbess was frequently a family member and controlled access to the premises, a matter of some importance during a time of recurrent feuds and power struggles between neighboring families.
Portrait of Ignatius Fortuna Ignatius Christianus Fridericus Fortuna (died 24 November 1789) was a black servant prominent in the court of Countess Palatine Francisca Christina of Sulzbach, an abbess at Essen Abbey in Essen, Germany.Ute Küppers-Braun: Kammermohren: Ignatius Fortuna am Essener Hof und andere farbige Hofdiener. In: Münster am Hellweg 54, 2001, S. 17–49. (In German) Fortuna was taken from South America as a child and given to the abbess by Essen businessman Franz Adam Schiffer in 1735.
She was elected as the abbess in 1529, succeeding Elizabeth Shelford who died in 1528.Sydenham,L 1959 p.68 By the time she became abbess, the train of events leading to the Dissolution of the Monasteries and the demise of the abbey was already underway. Having assented to the Act of Supremacy in 1534, Elizabeth Zouche and the nuns at Shaftesbury were visited by two commissions of enquiry in the following year, looking at the wealth and morality of the abbey.
She found d'Estrées and her entourage troublesome. With the intervention of the Parliament of Paris, the prévôt of Île-de-France removed them, and installed Arnauld as abbess. François de Sales made several visits to the new abbess. Later, Arnauld was replaced by Madame de Soissons, but, in Racine's words, she: de Soissons died in 1627. Her successor Marie Suireau, known as Marie des Anges ("Mary of the Angels"), was chosen (on Arnauld's proposal) as Maubuisson's leader, a position she held until 1648.
However, it was also suggested, most likely by Eleanor's brothers John and William Carey (who was married to Mary Boleyn), that Eleanor become the new abbess. Anne Boleyn also favoured Eleanor as the candidate for abbess, so the king looked into the matter. What was found out, however, quite put an end to any notion of Eleanor's promotion. She confessed to having borne “two children by two sundry priests” and was involved with a servant from the household of Lord Willoughby de Broke.
Funerary Brass of Dame Agnes Jordan from Denham Church, Bucks Agnes Jordan (died 29 January 1546) was the last pre-reformation Abbess of Syon Monastery.Syon Abbey, from: www.tudorplace.com.ar/Documents/SyonAbbey.htm It was she who had to sign the deed of surrender on 25 November 1539 which brought to an abrupt end the life of the abbey and granted all its property and wealth to Henry VIII. She was the sister of Isabel Jordan, prioress and later abbess of Wilton Abbey.
Les registres de Martin IV (1281-1285) , p. 65, no. 175. He performed the same function in the case of the Monastery of S. Alexander in Parma and the appointment of Abbess Margarita de Campilio; and the case of the Monastery of S. Victorino in Benevento and the appointment of Abbess Mabilia; and in the case of the Monastery of S. Benedetto de Padolirone in the diocese of Mantua, and the contested election of an abbot.Les registres de Martin IV (1281-1285) p.
A charter of immunities was issued by Otto III. This charter granted the convent of Vilich all the privileges and protections as well as legal freedom similar to the imperial convents of Gandersheim, Quedlinburg and Essen. With this charter, the convent had the right to freely elect an abbess and that no advocate could intrude without the permission of the abbess and the congregation. These charters and other pertaining to the abbey are found in the Staatsarchiv in Düsseldorf today.
As the abbess, she was responsible for both the political and theological affairs of the convent. She was also responsible for the safety and well-being of all nuns in her convent, in addition to leading and planning the liturgical ceremonies. Typically in English convents, the nun of the highest ranking was considered the supreme authority and had the most responsibility. Specifically, the abbess was required to provide goods and services for royal wars, as well as housing criminals until trial.
She carries a commanding aura, which is not only beautiful but also shows sign of malice. The Abbess is descended from “one of the noblest families in Italy” and was the youngest of several daughters – leading to her father procuring her the role of Lady Abbess. Vivani is Marcello's best friend, who he met in school, and the Conte de Porta. After losing his mother when he was a child, he became Conte when he turned 18, after his father passed away.
It had both an abbess and a prioress. In 1361, many fallen from the Battle of Visby was buried on the abbey's land, where a cross, which still stands, was erected. The abbey was presumably destroyed by the war between the Victual Brothers, the Teutonic Knights and the forces of the Kalmar Union in 1398-1403. In 1404, the abbess applied for help from the Master of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia, then in control of Gotland, to found a new abbey.
When the abbess died she was returned to her home region and placed under the tutelage of an uncle, her parents having by now died. Then in 1582, she joined the monastery at Beaumont where the abbess, Anne Babou de la Bourdaisière, was her aunt. In 1586, now aged 12, she was baptised by her uncle, the future Cardinal de la Bourdaisière. She took her own religious vows four years later, becoming a nun at Montmartre Abbey in Paris on 11 June 1590.
As a result, he had two daughters born out of wedlock. One of them lived from 1430 to 1490, was baptized as Elionor Manuel, and entered under the name of Isabel de Villena a convent in Valencia. There she became abbess in 1463 and wrote a Vita Christi that was published posthumously by the new abbess in 1497. During 1420 to 1425 not much is known about Villena other than that he wrote Arte cisoria and various treatises during this time.
She was the only child of Duke Przemysław of Toszek and Margareta, daughter of Duke Nicholas I of Opole, and thereby a member of the House of Piast in the Oświęcim branch. Around 1481 or 1482 Margareta became a nun in the monastery of St. Klara in Wrocław. In February 1508 she was elected Abbess. Margareta held this post until 3 February 1515; however, six months later, on 27 August 1515, she was elected again as Abbess, this time until her death.
Gerdeka, when abbess, had her father reburied in the abbey graveyard when it became permitted for non-members of the order to be buried there. Gerdeka was elected abbess in 1403 after the deposition of her predecessor Ingegerd Knutsdotter. Her reign has been described as a golden age for the abbey. In 1406, she received a delegation from England headed by Henry FitzHugh, 3rd Baron FitzHugh, for the purpose of creating a daughter abbey of the Bridgettine order in England.
Mathilde (also Mahthild or Matilda; 949 – 5 November 1011) was Abbess of Essen Abbey from 973 to her death. As granddaughter of Holy Roman Emperor Otto the Great she was a member of the Liudolfing dynasty and became one of the most important abbesses in the history of Essen. She was responsible for the abbey, for its buildings, its precious relics, liturgical vessels and manuscripts, its political contacts, and for commissioning translations and overseeing education. In the unreliable list of Essen Abbesses from 1672, she is listed as the second Abbess Mathilde and as a result, she is sometimes called "Mathilde II" to distinguish her from the earlier abbess of the same name, who is meant to have governed Essen Abbey from 907 to 910 but whose existence is disputed.
Mother Lettice Mary Tredway, C.R.L., (1595 – October 1677), courtesy title Lady Tredway, was an English canoness regular and abbess who founded a monastery for the English members of her Order in 17th-century Europe.
The nunnery was also involved in reclaiming land by clearing forests. As early as 1278 the need for bigger premises became apparent. In 1279 the first abbess, Adelheid (d. 1281), resigned from her position.
She has also written a biography of Southern writer Flannery O'Connor, "The Abbess of Andalusia: Flannery O'Connor's Spiritual Journey." She also wrote three cozy mystery novels featuring amateur detective Francesca Bibbo.Philip Grosset. "Francesca Bibbo".
Bodarwé, Sanctimoniales litteratae, p. 279-280; van Houts, "Woman and the writing of history in the early Middle Ages, the case of Abbess Mathilda of Essen and Aethelweard" in Early Medieval Europe 1992, 56ff.
Saint Senhorinha of Basto (; c. 942 – 982) was a Portuguese Benedictine abbess in what is today northern Portugal. She is a saint in the Roman Catholic Church and was related to Saint Rudesind of Mondoñedo.
Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia (9 November 1723 - 30 March 1787) was Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg. She was one of ten surviving children of King Frederick William I of Prussia and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover.
Svantepolk Knutsson was the father of Ingrid Svantepolksdotter (d. ca.1350), wife of Folke Algotsson (d. ca. 1310) and later abbess of Vreta Abbey. They were the parents of Swedish councilor Knut Folkesson (d. 1348).
Catherine Sunesdotter (), (c. 1215 – 1252) was Queen of Sweden from 1244 to 1250 as the wife of King Eric XI of Sweden. In her later years she served as abbess of Gudhem Abbey in Falbygden.
In 2013, after spending a year at Santi Forest Monastery she returned to her birth town of Charlotte, North Carolina for the founding of the Charlotte Buddhist Vihara, where she resides as abbess and Bhikkhuni.
Nieśwież with a crosier, c. 1768, National Museum in Warsaw In Catholicism, an abbess (Latin abbatissa, feminine form of abbas, abbot) is the female superior of a community of nuns, which is often an abbey.
Catherine of the Palatinate (14 October 1499 in Heidelberg - 16 January 1526 in Neuburg Abbey) was a member of the Wittelsbach family and a titular Countess Palatine of Simmern. She was abbess of Neuburg Abbey.
After she became abbess of the Monastery Saint Honorat in Tarascon in 1542, Marguerite and Francis visited her there. Francis carried her letters around with him and would show them to ladies of his court.
At the abbey, she worked first as an organist and member of the Choralschola, then took care of the elderly and sick in the infirmary. In summer of 2000 she was chosen by the convent to succeed Edeltraud Forster as the abbess. She was ordained on 3 October 2000 by Bishop Franz Kamphaus. Biografie Nave and sanctuary of the Abtei As the abbess, she regularly led the annual procession on the feast of Hildegard on 17 September with her shrine carried through the streets.
St. Agnes of Poitiers is a French saint and abbess, who was "recognized for her holiness and intelligence" and called "model of the conventual life". She served as abbess of Holy Cross convent in Poitiers, France until her death in 586.Brennan, p. 347 Agnes was the raised in court and was the adopted and "spiritual" daughter of St. Radegund, a Thuringian princess and Frankish queen who founded Holy Cross, a double monastery that housed 200 nuns and was known as a place of learning, in 557.
Ruyuan (, died 775) was a Chinese Buddhist abbess and master, lüshi. She was a member of the Li family of Longxi, one of the five most important families under the Tang dynasty. She became a novice at the age of nine, a nun at twenty, and an abbess at the temple convent of Zhenhua Temple (真化寺) in Chang'an. She was a master within the Chan Buddhism and famed as a lecturer and organizer of religious rituals with a great circle of followers.
Colegiata de Santa Maria in Briviesca founded by infanta Blanche "Fuero de Briviesca" (1313). She brought to the convent her dowry which consisted of several villages and properties and in 1303 donated to the convent the salt mines at Poza de la Sal and at Añana. Called the lady and keeper of the convent, Blanche was never its abbess, since during that time, between 1296 and 1326, Las Huelgas was governed by abbess Urraca Alfonso. In 1303, upon her mother's death, Blanche inherited the señorío of Alcocer.
It is said that in the year 480 (35 years after Saint Patrick settled in Armagh) Saint Brigid arrived in Kildare with her nuns. Her original abbey church may have been a simple wooden building. Soon after her death in 523 A.D., a costly shrine was erected in her honour in a new and larger building. For many centuries Kildare maintained a unique Irish experiment; the Abbess ruled over a double community of women and men, and the Bishop was subordinate in jurisdiction to the abbess.
Joachim Whaley, Germany and the Holy Roman Empire, Oxford University Press, 2012, volume 2, Glossary of German terms and other terms. The terms prince-bishopric (German: Fürstbistum, or simply Bistum) and ecclesiastical principality are synonymous with Hochstift. Erzstift and Kurerzstift referred respectively to the territory ruled by a prince-archbishop and an elector-archbishop while Stift referred to the territory ruled by an imperial abbot or abbess, or a princely abbot or abbess. Stift was also often used to refer to any type of ecclesiastical principality.
In 589, an insurrection broke out in the community of nuns which became a scandal throughout the empire. Led by two royal princesses, Basina, daughter of Chilperic I and her cousin, Clotilda, a group of nuns left the abbey and took refuge in a nearby church. There they accused the abbess of the monastery, Leubovère, of both excessive rigor in her treatment of the nuns under her charge and of immorality. The group recruited a large group of men to seize the abbess and confine her.
In the 5th century, the Abbey of Kildare was founded by Saint Brigid, a double monastery of nuns and monks. The abbey was governed by an abbess, who was the "heir of Brigit" (comarbae Brigte), and by abbots, bishops and abbot-bishops who were subordinate to the abbess. It was not until the 12th century however, that the bishopric was formally established at the Synod of Rathbreasail (1111 AD). The diocese covered roughly the northern part of County Kildare and the eastern part of County Offaly.
The Port of Póvoa de Varzim is also represented. King Afonso IV in his 1343 inquiries wanted to know the wealth of the religious orders. The abbess of the monastery presented a big letter in which it is stated, in Latin, that King Denis gave, to Afonso Sanches, Lower Varzim, and its royal charter valuing 250 pounds were property of the monastery. The abbess would have no rights over Upper Varzim (or Knights' Varzim), of the Order of Malta, nor the families of the king.
The earliest Monastic settlements in Ireland emerged at the end of the 5th century. The first identifiable founder of a monastery was Saint Brigid of Kildare, who ranked with Saint Patrick as a major figure of the Irish church. The monastery at Kildare was a double monastery, with both men and women ruled by the Abbess, a pattern found in many other monastic foundations. Commonly, Irish monasteries were established by grants of land to an abbot or abbess, who came from a local noble family.
During the Thirty Years War, the Abbess fled with its treasure to Cologne. In 1794, as the French advanced on Essen, the cathedral treasury was brought to Steele (modern Essen-Steele) and hidden in the orphanage donated by Abbess Francisca Christina of Sulzbach. At secularisation, the Catholic church of St Johann Baptist took over Essen Abbey and its property, including the cross. During the Ruhr Uprising of 1920 the whole treasury was taken to Hildesheim in absolute secrecy, whence it returned in equally secretive circumstances in 1925.
Initially founded as a double monastery, that is, a community of both men and women, this abbey was founded in 661 for the care of the sick by the young Aldegonde,Suzanne Fonay Wemple, Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500 to 900 (1981), p. 162. who was abbess there until her death in 684, and was also buried there. She was succeeded as abbess by her two nieces, first Aldetrudis and then Madelberte. The abbey soon became a Benedictine monastery solely of nuns.
Amalberga Vos (d. after 1573) was the Abbess of the Ter Hage Abbey in Zeeland from 1534 until 1572. Her family and background is unknown, but she became a member of the convent in 1529, and abbess five years later. She played an important political part: she had contacts within the government, expanded the abbey and its importance considerably and made it into an asylum (1544) where a great deal of religious dissidents were given protection, as well as being a religious and charitable center.
Hereswitha was to be the first abbess but died on her way there; and Benedicta took her place.van der Akker SJ, Dries. "Ansfried of Utrecht", Heiligen.net After his wife's death, Ansfried wanted to become a monk.
In 742 he and Winibald founded the double monastery of Heidenheim. Winibald served as the first abbot. Following his death, Willibald's sister, Saint Walburga, was appointed the first abbess of the monastery.Watkins, OSB, Dom B., ed.
The third, and current, Abbess is Rev. Master Meian Elbert, who was ordained in 1977 and received Dharma Transmission in 1979 from Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett. She was named a Master of the Order by Rev.
Bernhard married Firstly, Brigette (Jutta), a daughter of Canute V of Denmark with issue; # Henry I, Count of Anhalt (b. ca. 1170 – d. 1252). # Sophia of Saxony (d. 16 July 1244), Abbess of Gernrode (1221–44).
Adelheid held that position until 1044. Additions to the church in the 11th and 12th centuries include the west crypt (first mentioned in 1149), side galleries, the enlargement of the westwork (1127-1150) and the towers and the two-storey cloisters (1170). In 1188, Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa held court at Gernrode and gifted the "Barbarossa Bell" . The vaults of the transept were added in the Gothic period. The last Catholic abbess was Scholastika von Anhalt Dessau (1469-1504). Her successor, Elisabeth von Weida (1504-76) introduced Reformation in 1521. In 1525, Elisabeth managed to prevent damage to the convent during the German Peasants' War. With its introduction into the Landeskirche the convent lost its independence and fell under the influence of the local princes. Abbess Anna von Plauen (1532-49) founded the first school and supported the convent's role in providing medical care. From 1533, the collegiate church was shared with the parish. When Gernrode was awarded the status of town in 1539, the abbess donated a coat of arms. The last Stiftsdame (and by default abbess), Sophie Elisabeth, left the abbey in 1614.
"Marie de France presents her book of poems to Henry II of England" by Charles Abraham Chasselat The actual name of the author now known as Marie de France is unknown; she has acquired this nom de plume from a line in one of her published works: "Marie ai num, si sui de France," which translates as "My name is Marie, and I am from France."Burgess 7. Some of the most commonly proposed suggestions for the identity of this 12th-century poet are Marie, Abbess of Shaftesbury and half-sister to Henry II, King of England; Marie, Abbess of Reading; Marie I of Boulogne; Marie, Abbess of Barking; and Marie de Meulan, wife of Hugh Talbot. Based on evidence from her writings, it is clear that, despite being born in France, she spent much of her life living in England.
In 1504, most of the nuns turned against the next abbess, because she wanted to reintroduce claustration, supported by the abbot of Georgenthal Abbey, who was appointed Visitor and forced some of the nuns to be enclosed.
From 1331 the abbey had a right of residence in a house in Bamberg and owned several houses in Coburg. Through Abbess Anna von Henneberg the abbey gained possession of vineyards in Nassach (Aidhausen) and in Nüdlingen.
Christina, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (8 August 1639 - 30 June 1693) was a princess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Between 1681 and 1693 she served as the Abbess at Gandersheim. She was also a Princess of the Empire (Reichsfürstin).
Prior, derived from the Latin for "earlier, first", (or prioress for nuns) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior, usually lower in rank than an abbot or abbess. Its earlier generic usage referred to any monastic superior.
The couple became one of the greatest benefactors and protectors of the convent. After the death of her spouse in 1566, she was again referred to as "Mother Sister" by the nuns, an honorific of the Abbess.
At the latest in 1049 (and probably before 1039),Beuckers, p.43, 148. Ida became abbess of St. Maria im Kapitol in Cologne. As her brother Herman II was Archbishop of Cologne from 1036-1056,Wisplinghoff 1969.
920 and in 1130 was a royal justice in western England.Dalton "Eustace Fitz John" Speculum p. 360 Alice was the abbess of Barking Abbey and Agnes became the wife of Roger de Valognes.Keats-Rohan Domesday People p.
Eudes admits to finding the nunnery in disarray, explaining he did not have the time to fix every problem he encountered. Instead, Eudes ordered their bishop to instruct their abbess on the proper life for the nuns.
The abbess or abbot ruled Coxwold, Stonegrave and a third house, Donamuthe, near where the Old Don met the Trent and Humber at Adlingfleet. This was destroyed by the Danes in 794 AD and has totally disappeared.
They produced the principality's first written constitution, in which the powers of the abbess and the estates were delineated. This led to a better understanding between the abbess, who had not visited Essen since 1792, and the chapter. In addition to this constitution and judicial reform, Maria Kunigunde legislated a ban on abortion and regulations for the activities of surgeons and midwives. She also founded a school for the daughters of the upper class and worked for compulsory education and a reduction of the number of public holidays.
Hilda of Whitby or Hild of Whitby (c. 614–680) is a Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, which was chosen as the venue for the Synod of Whitby. An important figure in the Christianisation of Anglo- Saxon England, she was abbess at several monasteries and recognised for the wisdom that drew kings to her for advice. The source of information about Hilda is the Ecclesiastical History of the English People by Bede in 731, who was born approximately eight years before her death.
In 1392 Richard II confirmed a grant of two markets on different days. Edwardstow, Shaftesbury's oldest surviving building, was built on Bimport at some time between 1400 and 1539. Also in this period a medieval farm owned by the Abbess of Shaftesbury was established, on a site now occupied by the Tesco supermarket car park. Edwardstow In 1539, the last Abbess of Shaftesbury, Elizabeth Zouche, signed a deed of surrender, the (by then extremely wealthy) abbey was demolished, and its lands sold, leading to a temporary decline in the town.
At the end of the eighth century the abbess was Selethryth, sister of King Offa of Mercia, and she was remembered for recovering estates of the abbey which had been seized by Archbishop Wulfred of Canterbury. She was succeeded by Abbess Cwoenthryth. According to late traditions the abbey was sacked by the Vikings in about 855, but at the end of the ninth century Asser wrote in the present tense that "an excellent minster is established on the island". The boundary of the community is mentioned in Charter S 535 of 948.
Elizabeth details four fantasy vignettes. These are interspersed with conversations between the convent's former abbess, a priest, Abbess Elizabeth, an odd dead zombie nun and an actress Eileen Daly playing the spirit of Catechism.. The sex scenes conform to standard pornographic sequencing. They each start simply and culminate in erotic release at the end. There are scenes of the full lesbian sexual gamut, which extends from episodes of individual nuns' self-stimulation to non-monogamous lesbian sex to a final nun-centered crucifix-bondage scene, with copious use of the whip and the rope.
Retrieved 6 April 2010 However, she was later released and returned to Kingston St Michael. In 1534, she was nominated by the Court to the vacant post of abbess of Wilton Abbey, replacing Isabel Jordan. Cecily was known to both King Henry and Queen Anne Boleyn; and she paid the sum of £100 to Thomas Cromwell to secure her election as abbess.Emerson As abbess of Wilton, Cecily held an entire barony from the king, which was a privilege shared by three other English nunneries: Shaftesbury, Barking and St. Mary, Winchester.
Ingrid Svantepolksdotter (floruit 1350), was a Swedish noble and abbess. She is foremost known for being the central figure in one of the famous incidents referred to as the Maiden Abduction from Vreta, where she, like her mother before her, was abducted from Vreta Abbey by the man she later married. Later in life, she became an abbess at the very same abbey, in which position she served in 1323–1344. Ingrid was the daughter of Svantepolk of Viby and Benedicta of Bjelbo and thereby niece of Queen Catherine of Sweden.
St Servatius Church, Quedlinburg Named after her paternal grandmother, Queen Adelaide of Italy, Abbess Adelaide was the eldest daughter of Emperor Otto II and his consort Theophanu. She was educated in Quedlinburg Abbey by her paternal aunt, Abbess Matilda. While Matilda and Theophanu stayed at the Italian court of Pavia in 984, the young girl was abducted by the forces of her quarrelling uncle Duke Henry II of Bavaria in 984 and held in custody by his henchman, the Billung count Egbert the One-Eyed. Soon after, however, she was released by loyal Saxon troops.
Sister Ursula is a nun in a convent in Southern Spain. One day, while the peddler Perez (Lon Chaney) comes to the convent to sell his wares, she sees Manuel, a handsome cavalier, riding by and she cannot suppress her attraction to him. Perez sells the Abbess a beautiful length of fabric for an altar cloth, but when Ursula is putting it away, she cannot resist the temptation to cover herself in the cloth and admire her own beauty. Coming to her senses, she runs to the Abbess to confess her sins.
In 671, at the Battle of Two Rivers, Ecgfrith put down an opportunistic rebellion by the Picts, which resulted in the Northumbrians taking control of the land between the Firth of Forth and the Tweed for the next fourteen years. Around the same time, Æthelthryth wished to leave Ecgfrith to become a nun. Eventually, in about 672, Æthelthryth persuaded Ecgfrith to allow her to become a nun, and she entered the monastery of the Abbess Æbbe, who was aunt to King Ecgfrith, at Coldingham. A year later Æthelthryth became founding abbess of Ely.
Whitby Abbey The first monastery was founded in 657 AD by the Anglo-Saxon era King of Northumbria, Oswy (Oswiu) as Streoneshalh (the older name for Whitby). He appointed Lady Hilda, abbess of Hartlepool Abbey and grand-niece of Edwin, the first Christian king of Northumbria, as founding abbess. The name Streoneshalh is thought to signify Fort Bay or Tower Bay, in reference to a supposed Roman settlement that previously existed on the site. This contention has never been proven and alternative theories have been proposed, such as the name meaning Streona's settlement.
Maria Rainer, a postulant at Nonnberg Abbey in Salzburg, is contemplating the day she has spent in the mountains ("The Sound of Music"). When she returns to the Abbey, she learns from the Mother Abbess that she is to be the new governess for the von Trapp children. Before she leaves the Abbey, Mother Abbess asks her to teach her the song that she's always singing ("My Favorite Things"). When Maria arrives at the von Trapp house, she is greeted coldly by the Captain and introduced to the children, who enter with military precision.
At this point it was not Christina who took over as abbess but the duke's own young daughter, Christine Sophie. She, however, remained in post only for three years: she left in order to marry a near cousin and adoptive brother, Augustus William, [subsequently - from 1714] Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, on 29 June 1681. This time, on 9 August 1681, Christina of Mecklenburg-Schwerin was elected to succeed Christine Sophie as abbess. Her installation followed on 11 October 1681, following her "capitulatio caesarea" (formal conditional acceptance of the position).
In 1003 Sweyn, King of Denmark, destroyed the town of Wilton but it is unknown whether the abbey shared its fate. Edith of Wessex, the wife of Edward the Confessor, who had been educated at Wilton, rebuilt the abbey in stone; it had formerly been of wood. The Abbess of Wilton held an entire barony from the king, a privilege shared by only three other English nunneries, Shaftesbury, Barking, and St Mary's Abbey, Winchester. As the head of a barony, the abbess had the obligation to provide the royal army with knights when summoned.
A dispute between Gonzalo's mother, abbess of Guimarães in her widowhood, and a relative of the Galician magnate Rodrigo Velásquez, spurred a rivalry between the two families that would span several years. Rodrigo's brother's sister-in-law, Guntroda, abbess of Pazóo, had appropriated the monastery of Santa Comba, which belonged to a monk name Odoino, who appealed to Mummadomna for support. She sent her sons Gonzalo and Ramiro to force Guntroda to return it volens nolens (willing or not). The conflict left to open warfare between the factions led by Gonzalo and Rodrigo.
The life of the Abbess Hilda of Whitby - Worksheet 5, Barnabas in Schools In 655, King Oswiu of Northumbria sent his one-year-old daughter Ælfflæd to stay with Hilda, "to be consecrated to God in perpetual virginity",Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, lib. iii, c. 24. an important gesture. Hilda stayed at Hartlepool Abbey until 657 or 658 when at Aidans behest she became founding abbess of Whitby Abbey, then called Streoneshalh,"Saxon Houses: including Wearmouth and Jarrow", A History of the County of Durham: Volume 2 (1907), pp. 79-85.
When the Abbess comes to prepare the body, she asks Esteban his name, and he says he is Manuel. Gossip about his ensuing strange behavior spreads all over town. He goes to the theater but runs away before the Perichole can talk to him; the Abbess also tries to talk to him, but he runs away, so she sends for Captain Alvarado. Captain Alvarado, a well-known sailor and explorer, goes to see Esteban in Cuzco and hires him to sail the world with him, far from Peru.
Before the Conquest, lordship was held by Wulfmer of Eaton Socon; after given to Eudo Dapifer who was also Tenant-in-chief to William the Conqueror. "Abbess Roding", Open Domesday, University of Hull. Retrieved 9 February 2018 A further source, the Domesday Book: A Complete Translation, gives a Domesday record of Abbess Roding being held by Geoffrey Martel as part of the land of Geoffrey de Mandeville. Ordnance Survey map 1805 showing 'Abbots Roding' Other traditional names for the village and its previous parish were 'Abbott's Roothing' or 'Abbots Roding'.
The original Bridgettine Order was open to both men and women, and was dedicated to devotion to the Passion of Jesus Christ. It was a “double order” each monastery having attached to it a small community of monks to act as chaplains, but under the government of the abbess. St Bridget's Rule stipulated: The nuns were strictly enclosed, emphasizing scholarship and study, but the monks were also preachers and itinerant missionaries. The individual monasteries were each subject to the local bishop, and, in honor of the Virgin Mary, they were ruled by an abbess.
In the 5th century, the Abbey of Kildare was founded by Saint Brigid, a double monastery of nuns and monks. The abbey was governed by an abbess, who was the 'heir of Brigit' (comarbae Brigte), and by abbots, bishops and abbot-bishops, who were subordinate to the abbess. Although the bishopric was founded with the abbey in the fifth-century, it wasn't until 1111 AD that the diocese of Kildare was established at the Synod of Rathbreasail. The diocese covered roughly the northern part of County Kildare and the eastern part of County Offaly.
From 1628, she fought against the influence of Molinism on some of the sisters, but with two nuns suspected of this heresy having been ejected, the orthodoxy and canons of the Cistercian Order were affirmed. Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate (1622 – 1709), daughter of Frederick V of the Palatinate and aunt of Elizabeth Charlotte of Bavaria, second sister-in-law of Louis XIV, also served as Abbess of Maubuisson. On 27 April 1769, Archbishop Christophe de Beaumont, the Duke of Saint-Cloud, visited the abbey to restore friendly relations between the abbess and her nuns.
Canopy over the coffin of the Abbess During the last years of her life, Francisca Christina was weak and frail and also plagued by diseases. However, she was not an easy patient: a report from 1775 complains that she did not regularly take her medications, ... although we three medical man, Leidenfrost, Bruning and Tuttman, adopt every possibility to provide her with tasty, and yet effective [Medicine].Küppers-Braun, Fürst-Äbtissin, p.78 The octogenarian abbess died on 16 July 1776 in Essen, shortly before her fifty- year jubilee.
At this time, Gertrude took the "whole burden of governing upon herself alone," placing affairs of the family in the hand of "good and faithful administrators from the brothers." Some have argued that this implies that Gertrude ruled the monastery with an abbot. Frankish double monasteries were almost always led by an abbess, or jointly by an abbess and abbot.Wemple 162 However, when Suzanne Wemple used Nivelles as an example of the latter, claiming that Gertrude ruled Nivelles jointly with Saint Amand "around 640," she casts doubt on her own theory by mistaking the date.
On 18 October 1663 they acquired land for a church, and the foundation stone was laid by Abbess Anna Rochelles on 3 October 1673. The church was consecrated on 14 October 1679 by Antonius Spanoghe, Abbot of Hemiksem. On 10 May 1686 the Abbess of Roosendael Abbey gifted two new altars for the church. A little over a century later, on 16 Vendémiaire in Year V of the Republic (7 October 1796), the 20 nuns then living in the community were ordered off the premises by a government commissioner.
The Convent of Our Lady of Saidnaya In the late 8th century, a certain venerable Marina was abbess of the convent, and she was widely revered for her piety and sanctity of life. It happened that a hermit monk, a Greek pilgrim from Egypt named Theodore, stopped at the convent on his way to the Holy Land. When he was leaving, Abbess Marina asked him to buy in Jerusalem a precious and fine icon of the Holy Virgin. While at Jerusalem, he utterly forgot the task entrusted to him and started on his return journey.
In 1385, she succeeded Margareta Bosdotter (Oxenstierna) as abbess, although the abbey was still not officially recognized. On 18 May 1388, after the Vadstena Abbey was officially recognized by the pope, she was ordained as its first official abbess. During her tenure, she received the Union Queen Margaret when the monarch claimed to have had a vision, kissed the hands of all the members of the convent and was ordained as a lay sister. In 1400 the city of Vadstena was granted city rights by Queen Margaret on Ingegerd's request.
Venerable Petronilla of Chemillé (died April 24, 1149) was the first abbess of the double monastery of Fontevrault in western France, which she headed from 1115 to 1149 following her second widowhood. Born Petronilla of Craon, she became a follower of Robert of Arbrissel, himself a Beatified. After Philippa of Toulouse persuaded her husband, William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, to grant Robert land for the foundation of an abbey, Robert left both Hersende de Champagne and Petronilla in charge of monitoring the construction and organization. A year before Robert's death, he named her first abbess.
Abbess ran out of time to film this scene using conventional techniques, so positioned the camera at the end of the hallway and used "crash zooms… in and out of the action" to highlight the key moments. Abbess studied other low-budget films like Requiem for a Dream and Donnie Darko to identify ways the filmmakers worked around their small budgets. Physical effects were also created cheaply. Instead of using expensive rain towers, the rain featured in the film's climactic scenes was created simply using hoses and unheated water.
Earconwald is said to have engaged Hildelith to instruct his sister Æthelburh, abbess of the monastery which he had founded at Barking. Hildilid succeeded her pupil as abbess at some date later than 692, if we accept the charter of Æthelred to Æthelburga given under that date (Kemble, Codex Dipl. i. 39). According to another account it must have been after the death of Earconwald (693), who died on a visit to his sister. Florence of Worcester, however, gives her accession under 664, but again mentions it under 675 (i.
Once she had made her religious profession in 1620, Mary of Jesus began to experience a long period of illness and temptations. After her mother's death, Mary of Jesus, then aged 25, was appointed the Superior locum tenens, after which her fellow nuns elected her as their abbess. Though rules required the abbess to be changed every three years, Mary remained effectively in charge of the monastery until her death, except for a three-year sabbatical in her fifties. Throughout her life, Mary of Jesus was inclined to the "internal prayer" or "quiet prayer".
In the Church of England Diocese of Chelmsford, Leaden, Abbess, White and Beauchamp Roding have formed the South Rodings parish since 2004.South Rodings parish history High and Aythorpe Roding are beneficed to Great Canfield and Margaret Roding to Good and High Easter, those 6 parishes are served by one priest-in-charge. Berners Roding is now part of the Parish of Willingale, the Parish Church of unknown dedication (but thought to be All Saints) is redundant and is privately owned."Berners Roding Parish Church (De-consecrated)", Abbess, Beauchamp & Berners Roding Parish Council.
Bodarwé, Sanctimoniales literattae, p. 54. Mathilde received a comprehensive education appropriate to her status, probably from Abbess Hathwig and Abbess IdaTobias Nüssel, "Überlegungen zu den Essener Äbtissinnen zwischen Wicburg und Mathilde," in Das Münster am Hellweg 63, 2010, p. 30. Aside from the Gospels, the books at Essen included the religious authors Prudentius, Boethius, and Alcuin, as well as secular works like Terence and other classical authors which were not only reading material but also the basis of the education of the girls entrusted to the Abbey.For the Essen book catalogue: Bodarwé, Sanctimoniales litteratae, pp.
By around 1600, her jawbone and upper arm were preserved in the parish church, each in its own jewel-studded reliquary dating from the 15th century. The rest of the bones, with the exception of the collarbones, were preserved in the abbey church in a Baroque reliquary (1644) commissioned by Françoise de Bette, abbess 1637–1666. When the abbey was suppressed in 1796 the last abbess, Juana Francisca de Rueda de Conteras (1785–1818), removed this reliquary to a monastery near Würzburg. It was returned to Forest only in 1812.
It is from the archives of this abbey that a good part of the information we have on García Fernández comes: some 60 documents referring directly to him or to his wife Mayor Arias. Female members of the family continued to hold key posts in the abbey long after his death. The first abbess was Marina Arias, probably Mayor's sister, and García's daughters Marina and Mayor also led the community. The latter was still the abbess in 1286 when two granddaughters of the founder occupied the posts of prioress and precentrix.
Janet L. Nelson called it the "centre of the monarchic cult", indicating a unique prominence for the abbey and firm royal connections. Political contacts met there and information was collected from across the kingdom. Abbess Gisela was the one person to send Alcuin the news at Tours of her brother Charlemagne’s official coronation. Nelson suggests that the abbess, as well as writing to Alcuin in Latin to request a Biblical commentary, was responsible for writing the Annales Mettenses priores, which recorded a visit from the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne himself in 804.
In token of his, every three years the abbess would send to Rome a white horse draped with a purple cloth.Hare, Augustus J.C., North-eastern France, 1890 At the time of Rudolph of Habsburg (1290), the abbess was raised to the status of Imperial Princess. On Whit Monday the neighboring parishes paid homage to the collegiate chapter in a ceremony called the Kyriolés (canticles in the vernacular). On their accession, the Dukes of Lorraine became de facto suzerains of the abbey and had to come to Remiremont to swear to continue their protection.
In 1775, Scholastique Daivier (d. 1805) succeeded as abbess, the last abbess of the ancien régime. In 1790, fearing the arrival of the revolutionary armies, she moved the community from Soleilmont, along with the abbey's relics and the image of Our Lady of Rome, first to and later to Liège. However, in the belief that they had moved for no good reason, they then returned to Soleilmont in 1794, just in time to be caught up in the Battle of Fleurus of 26 June 1794, which was fought literally beneath the abbey walls.
The new parts, presumably built at the order of the abbesses Agana and Hathwig, were an outer crypt, a westwork and a narthex and an external chapel of St John the Baptist. This building can be reconstructed from archaeological finds and did not have a long existence, because a new church was erected, perhaps under the art loving Abbess Mathilde, but maybe only under Abbess Theophanu (r. 1039–1058). Possibly, a new building was begun under Mathilde and completed under Theophanu. Significant portions survive from the new Ottonian building.
After her father's death in 1257, Euphrosyne and her siblings remained under their mother's care, and after her death in 1265 were raised by their paternal uncle Bolesław the Pious. The religious environment of Bolesław's court certainly impacted in his nieces; all three who remained unmarried (Euphrosyne and her sisters, twins Anna and Euphemia) took the veil. Euphrosyne became a nun in the Cistercian monastery of Trzebnica, and in 1278 she became the Abbess. Documentation from the years 1285–1297 shows a high activity of Euphrosyne as Abbess, especially in economic matters of the monastery.
The two of them spend days trekking through the jungle. Choden deflects Kinley's questions by telling fantastical parables: a nun who doesn't stop meditating when stones are thrown at her; an abbess who protects her nuns from an invasion by transforming them into pigs; an abbess who continued meditating after her death and transformed into a rainbow. The two end up staying in Kinley's house, and he must hide all evidence that he is a police officer. Just when they are starting to form a connection, Choden leaves without a word.
In 1570, the nine- year-old Anna Maria succeeded her paternal aunt Elisabeth as Abbess of Gernrode and Frose. This dignity was only titular, however; the territory had in reality been incorporated into the principality of Anhalt, with her father as "administrator" and holder of Gernrode's vote in the Reichstag.Women in power 1570-1600 In 1577, Anna Maria was relieved from her post as abbess in order to marry Joachim Frederick, eldest son and heir of George II the Pious, Duke of Brzeg. The wedding took place in Brzeg on 19 May of that year.
After becoming the abbess of Abu- Sefain, Tamav stated that she had received a vision of Christ and of St Pachomius the Great (292-348 AD), one of founders of the communal life of monks and nuns (cenobeticism). St Pachom allegedly told Tamav to follow the rules of the Pachomian Koinonia (fellowship) in the convent. She then banned all forms of personal property or segregation, and introduced group prayers and meals. Before Tamav became Abbess, the nuns attended mass and communion in an adjacent church, dedicated to St. Saint Mercurius.
Countess Elisabeth of Regenstein-Blankenburg (1542 – 20 July 1584) was Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg. As such, she is numbered Elisabeth II. Elisabeth was the daughter of Count Ulrich of Regenstein-Blankenburg, and his second wife, Magdalene of Stolberg.
She came from a noble Limburg- Styrum family. Her father was Herman George of Limburg-Bronkhorst, Lord of Styrum, Wisch and Borculo. Her mother was Countess Mary of Hoya-Bruchhausen. Her sister Metta was also Abbess in Freckenhorst.
Herrad of Landsberg (; 1130 – July 25, 1195) was a 12th-century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains. She was known as the author of the pictorial encyclopedia Hortus deliciarum (The Garden of Delights).
Henriette Louise de Bourbon (Henriette Louise Marie Françoise Gabrielle; 15 January 1703 – 19 September 1772) was a French princess by birth and a member of the House of Bourbon. She was the abbess of Beaumont-lès-Tours Abbey.
Bleeding was also the means of his death in the earlier Robin Hood's Death, but that, the more common version, had it done by an abbess, his cousin. This version also omits his usual reconciliation with the king.
She died here in about 895 and was buried in the abbey church. The abbey survived the Reformation, thanks to the efforts of the Abbess Rebstock, who is commemorated in the present church, but not the French Revolution.
Elisabetta Maria Satellico (31 December 1706 - 8 November 1745) - in religious Maria Crocifissa - was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious from the Poor Clares who served as her convent's abbess. Her beatification was celebrated on 10 October 1993.
Kadrin wrote the first half of the book, and Christina the second half. Christina is also identified as the translator of Antiphonarium for the Abbess Margareta Clausdotter, and as the author of Speculum Virginum and Christina Hansdotters bönbok.
James Joseph Sheahan, History and Topography of Buckinghamshire, Longman, Green & Roberts, London 1862, p. 816. The Abbess was granted a small pensionFrancis Aidan Gasquet, Henry VIII and the English Monasteries, vol. II, John Hodges, London, 6th edition 1895, p.
He would have been in his mid-thirties. His widow, Eormenhild, is thought to have later become the abbess of Ely.Yorke, Kings and Kingdoms, p. 70. Æthelred, Wulfhere's brother, succeeded to the throne and reigned for nearly thirty years.
Princess Helen's heraldic arms Helen of Sweden ( 1190 – 1247, Swedish: Helena) was a Swedish princess and daughter of King Sverker II of Sweden. She was the mother of Queen Catherine of Sweden. She was later Abbess of Vreta Abbey.
Clara of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (16 November 1532 in Wolfenbüttel - 23 November 1595 at Herzberg Castle), was a princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel by birth. She was abbess of the secular Gandersheim Abbey and later Duchess of Brunswick-Grubenhagen by marriage.
Victoria Sweet is an American physician, author and advocate for what is termed "slow medicine". She is also a historian of medicine who has studied the writings of Hildegard of Bingen, a 12th century German abbess and medical therapist.
In the 18th century, the abbey shrank in numbers, from 70 nuns in 1720 to only 18 in 1780. In 1786, Louis XVI decided to disband it. Before the French Revolution, the Abbess earned around 5,000 livres in tithes.
1180), Abbess of Altomünster ### ### ### ### ### ### ###Kunigunde (d.1139), nun in Abbey ###The Count Justin di Cristofaro I ### ### ### ### ### ### ### ### A history of the House of Andechs was written by the statesman and historian Joseph Hormayr, Baron zu Hortenburg, and published in 1796.
Perpetua was an abbess of an order of consecrated virgins in Hippo. This monastery was probably close to his own in Hippo. Augustine and Perpetuas' nieces joined this religious foundation. The monastery was also well-known for rescuing foundlings.
Her sister, Beatrix, was abbess of Quedlinburg Abbey. Sophie and Beatrix both died in 1160. Some sources suggest that Sophie died on 25 March, other name 6 or 7 July. She was buried in the church of the monastery in Ballenstedt.
680), abbess of Hamage Abbey near Arras; Adalsinda, a nun at Hamage (died 714); and Clotsinda (died 714). All are venerated as saints. The couple opened their castle to the poor and disadvantaged. The hermit-monk Richarius was a family friend.
In the walls of the monastery the Saint Euhrosyne women's spiritual school was located . In 1847, with the Abbess of Claudia Schepanovsky, the construction of the Euphrosyne Refectory Church was started. It was opened on 5 June (23 May o.s.), 1858.
Cristina, daughter of Edward the Exile and Agatha, was the sister of Edgar Ætheling and Saint Margaret of Scotland, born in the 1040s. Cristina's nieces Edith and Mary were sent to Romsey Abbey, near Southampton, in 1086 when she was abbess.
In the middle of the eleventh century, the archbishop of Cologne Hermann II. and his sister Ida, abbess of St. Maria im Kapitol, initiated construction of a new church. The altar and the nave were consecrated by pope Leo IX.
Duchess Dorothea Sophia of Saxe-Altenburg (19 December 1587 – 10 February 1645) was Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg. She was the fourth child and second daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and his first wife, Sophie of Württemberg.
It is unclear whether she had four or five children. Her four known children were: Clotsinda, successor as abbess,Matthew Bunson, Stephen Bunson, Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints (2003), p. 214. Adalsinda,Bunson and Bunson, p. 34. Eusebia and Maurantius.
Agnes I (born c. 1090; died 29 December 1125 in Quedlinburg) was Abbess of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg. She was the second daughter of Judith of Swabia and Władysław I Herman. She was the granddaughter of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor.
Blessed Irmgard of Chiemsee (, also Irmengard; - 16 July 866), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was the second daughter of King Louis the German and his wife Hemma. She was the first Abbess of Frauenchiemsee from 857 until her death.
Sperandia (or Sperandea) (1216 – September 11, 1276) is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church. A relative of Saint Ubald of Gubbio,Patron Saints Index: Saint Sperandea she became a Benedictine nun at Cingoli. She later became an abbess.
Mlada from the tympanum of St. George Monastery (1220s) Mlada was a Benedictine abbess and founder of the first monastery in Bohemia. In 965, she undertook a diplomatic trip to Rome to advocate the formation of the Diocese of Prague.
Hrosvitha was followed by Hildegard of Bingen (d. 1179), a Benedictine abbess, who wrote a Latin musical drama called Ordo Virtutum in 1155. The anonymous pagan play Querolus, written c.420, was adapted in the 12th century by Vitalis of Blois.
Elizabeth's third child, Gertrude of Altenberg (1227–1297), was born several weeks after the death of her father; she became abbess of the monastery of Altenberg Abbey, Hesse near Wetzlar.Ott, Michael. "Blessed Gertrude of Aldenberg." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 6.
In 985, the monastery was attacked by the troops of Almanzor. Count Borrell II restored it; the new abbess was Adalet. The monastery grew slowly. At the end of the 10th century, the community was composed of a dozen religious.
By the time of her death, the site was one of the more important monasteries in the peninsula. Abbess Mafalda was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1792. This in part reflected the position of the abbey in royal favor.
At end of the 12th century, the abbess of Quedlinburg pledged estates to Blankenburg Jews. These appear at the time to have been both in Blankenburg and in Quedlinburg.Vgl. Eberhard Brecht, Manfred Kummer: Juden in Quedlinburg. Halberstadt 1996, p. 7.
A Lingua Ignota (Latin for "unknown language") was described by the 12th century abbess of Rupertsberg, St. Hildegard of Bingen, OSB, who apparently used it for mystical purposes. To write it, she used an alphabet of 23 letters denominated litterae ignotae.
Yorke "Adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon Royal Courts" Cross Goes North pp. 250–251 His sister, Æthelburg, was Abbess of Barking, while he served as Abbot of Chertsey. In 675, Earconwald became the Bishop of London, after Wine.Fryde, et al.
Saint Ava is a Roman Catholic saint. Ava was the daughter of Pepin. She was cured of blindness by St. Rainfredis. She then became a Benedictine nun at Dinart, Hainaut, located today in Belgium, and was elected abbess c. 845.
St. Clare's Priory, Stockholm Blodbadsplanschen 1524 Anna Rheinholdsdotter Leuhusen (died c. 1554), was the Abbess of St. Clare's Priory in Stockholm. She became known for her involvement in the Swedish War of Liberation between Sweden and Denmark in the 1520s.
Instead she was appointed as the abbess of a convent. Here she is said to have fornicated with an English exile. As a result, she was eventually expelled from the monastery and ended her days begging in the streets of Pavia.
Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich (c.970´´Piesik, Heinz, Vita Adelheidis - Das Leben der hl. Adelheid von Vilich. Bonn 2003, p. 9`` – 5 February 1015(?)``Schlafke, Jakob, Leben und Verehrung der heiligen Adelheid von Vilich, in: Achter,Irmingard, Die Stiftskirche St.
Valois-Orleans coat of arms Anne d'Orléans (1464 – 1491 in Poitiers) was a French abbess. She was the youngest child of Charles, Duke of Orléans and Maria of Cleves. Her only brother became king Louis XII of France in 1498.
William Montgomery McGovern. Grosset & Dunlap (1924). Reprint: South Asia Books (1983). . The abbess became famous when she turned herself and her nuns into sows to prevent a Mongol raid on the nunnery in 1716 (McGovern gives 1717 for this event).
Next came The Abbess (1833), an anti-Catholic novel, as was Father Eustace (1847). While both borrowed from Victorian Gothic conventions, the scholar Susan Griffin notes that Trollope wrote a Protestant critique of Catholicism that also expressed "a gendered set of possibilities for self- making", which has been little recognised by scholars. She noted that "Modernism's lingering legacy in criticism meant overlooking a woman's nineteenth century studies of religious controversy."Susan M. Griffin, "Revising the Popish Plot: Frances Trollope's 'The Abbess' and 'Father Eustace'", Victorian Literature and Culture, 2003, p. 279, JSTOR, accessed 24 February 2011.
Dorothea Maria zu Salm (in French: Dorothée-Marie de Salm) (1651-1702), was a German-Roman monarch as Princess Abbess of the immediate Imperial Remiremont Abbey in the Duchy of Lorraine which then formed a part of the Holy Roman Empire, but later on was annexed by France in 1766. Dorothea Maria zu Salm was the daughter of Prince Leopold Philipp Karl zu Salm and Countess Maria Anna von Bronckhorst-Batenburg, Heiress of Anholt.WOMEN IN POWER 1640-1670, at guide2womenleaders.com She was elected Coadjutrice as a child, with the right to succeed the existing abbess, Anne Marie Thérèse de Lorraine.
The Saxon attempts to have Maria Kunigunde appointed as Abbess of Münsterbilsen failed in 1766. The incumbent, Antoinette of Eltz-Kempenich, was willing to abdicate in Maria Kunigunde's favour; however, the chapter fiercely resisted the imposition and insisted that all applicable procedures be followed. For example, Sophia of Stadion-Tannhausen requested proof of Maria Kunigunde's nobility, confirmed by two electors or imperial princes, and also that the next abbess reside at the Abbey -- this was not an unusual requirement at ladies' abbeys, but it was unacceptable to the court in Dresden. The court interpreted the demand for proof of nobility as an insult.
In 1767, by the grace of her maternal uncle Frederick the Great (Frederick II of Prussia), Sophia Albertina was made Coadjutrix of Quedlinburg Abbey, a convent of Lutheran women. In 1787, one or two years after allegedly secretly giving birth, she succeeded her maternal aunt, Anna Amalia of Prussia, as Princess- Abbess of Quedlinburg. As such, she was the reigning head of a German state directly under the Holy Roman Empire, and thus a monarch in the Empire. When she succeeded as abbess, Frederick offered to "relieve" her from the position by buying the realm of Quedlinburg and annexing it to Prussia.
At the beginning of the novel we are introduced to Alexandra, recently elected Abbess of Crewe, circumnavigating the issue of electronic bugging in the convent, while there is a visible police presence outside the gates. Alexandra is tall and elegant, 'like a tower of ivory'. She recites modern poetry in place of the traditional vespers and has the nuns given incantations on electronics. It soon becomes clear that there has been a scandal engulfing the covent and that another senior member of the convent, Felicity, formerly Alexandra's rival for the position of Abbess, has departed to live with a Jesuit priest.
The death of Emperor Francis I on 18 August 1765 was a devastating blow for Maria Anna. Because her mother was unable to find a royal husband for her, in 1766 Maria Anna was made Abbess of the Imperial and Royal Convent for Noble Ladies (Frauenstift) in Prague with the promise of 80,000 florins per year. Despite the opposition of her mother, she decided to give up the Prague position and became an abbess in Klagenfurt with a smaller provision. A palace for her was built by Nicolò Pacassi near the monastery as her residence, the construction of which was completed in 1771.
At her mother's request, and through the mediation of her second cousin, Anton Ulric of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, from 1665 she acquired a benefice (income) through her appointment as the then youngest canoness of Gandersheim Abbey. Despite her relative youth, on 3 October 1665 Christina was elected deaconess at the abbey, on the recommendation of Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, who was the younger of her mother's surviving uncles. Being deaconess lined her up as deputy and likely successor to the Abbess Dorothea Hedwig, another kinswoman. However, the Abbess Dorothea Hedwig retired from the post sooner than had been anticipated.
At a General Chapter of the Cistercians held in 1189, she was made Abbess General of the Order for the Kingdom of León and Castile, with the privilege of convoking annually a general chapter at Burgos. The Abbess of Las Huelgas retained her ancient prerogatives up to the time of the Council of Trent, in the 16th century. Currently, the monastic community, which at present numbers 36, is part of the Spanish Congregation of St. Bernard, a reform movement of Cistercian nuns, which arose during the 16th and 17th centuries. Due to this, they are also commonly referred to as "Bernadines".
The first document mentioning Borbeck dates back to 869, when Borthbeki, a small rural commune, was mentioned as one of nine communes around Essen Abbey which were liable to tax. In 1288, princess-abbess Berta von Arnsberg bought probably mortgaged parts of the region and built the predecessor of Schloss Borbeck. By the 14th century, Schloss Borbeck had become the favorite residence of the princess-abbesses, which came along with a rise of prestige for the region. In 1339, princess-abbess Katharina von der Mark had Borbeck's old Romanesque church modified so the abbesses and their entourage could adequately attend mass.
Then came Santa María la Real de las Huelgas (Valladolid) (1140), Espírito Santo Olmedo (1142), Villabona, or San Miguel de las Dueñas (1155), Perales (1160), Gradefes (1168), Cañas (1169) and others. The most celebrated was Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas near Burgos, founded in 1187 by Alfonso VIII of Castile. The observance was established there by Cistercian nuns who came from Tulebras, under the guidance of Misol, who became its first abbess. The second abbess was Constance, daughter of the founder, who believed she had the power of preaching in her church and hearing confessions of her religious.
Gyokuko Carlson (born Andrea Gass) is a Soto Zen roshi and abbess of Dharma Rain Zen Center in Portland, Oregon, United States. She was formerly the co- abbot along with her husband, the late Kyogen Carlson. Carlson and her husband practiced at Shasta Abbey when Jiyu Kennett was the abbess (and from whom she received Dharma transmission), leaving to found their own center in 1986 when celibacy became a requirement at Shasta Abbey. She has been a practitioner of Zen Buddhism for more than thirty years, and is a member of the American Zen Teachers Association.
There are exigent circumstances, where due to Apostolical privilege, certain Abbesses have been granted rights and responsibilities above the normal, such as the Abbess of the Cistercian Monastery of the Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas near Burgos, Spain. Also granted exceptional rights was the Abbess of the Cistercian order in Conversano Italy. She was granted the ability to appoint her own vicar- general, select and approve the confessors, along with the practice of receiving the public homage of her clergy. This practice continued until some of the duties were modified due to an appeal by the clergy to Rome.
The city remained a free imperial city, subject to the emperor only, but was politically far too weak to influence the policies of any of its neighbours. The only dominion it had was over Burtscheid, a neighbouring territory ruled by a Benedictine abbess. It was forced to accept that all of its traffic must pass through the "Aachener Reich". Even in the late 18th century the Abbess of Burtscheid was prevented from building a road linking her territory to the neighbouring estates of the duke of Jülich; the city of Aachen even deployed its handful of soldiers to chase away the road-diggers.
She has been Cellarer of the Abbey, responsible for the maintenance of the Abbey property and buildings since 2001. Her day to day experience of our growing community trying to live within inadequate space and facilities, inspired her to propose our New Horizons renovation project for which she is Monastic Project Manager. Abbess Emerita David Serna has long acknowledged Mother Lucia's "comprehensive vision" which has predilected her now as "Mother Abbess" to lead Regina Laudis into the future. The community is known for its commitment to the arts, most notably in the performance of Gregorian Chant.
The donor portrait, especially the positioning of the siblings' hands, was earlier interpreted as indicating that Otto donated the cross to the abbey which his sister oversaw as abbess. But this makes it odd that Mathilde is not depicted as abbess and that Otto is depicted without ducal insignia. The common hypothesis, advocated by von Pothmann among others, that it was a combined donation of both siblings, may not fit with the fact that the cross depicted on the donor portrait does not match the appearance of the Cross of Otto and Mathilde. This was typically the case in medieval donation pictures.
As a young aristocrat of 14, Victorine's parents began proceedings to have her named the new abbess of the chapter of Epina. This was a coming of age event. At a formal ceremony in October 1785, the parents presented proof that their daughter was descended from French nobility on both the maternal and paternal sides, and Victorine was received into the noble chapter of Épinal. As the young Abbess, she took no vows and was not forbidden to marry, but, even at her young age, she became entitled to be called Madame, a salutation ordinarily reserved for mature or married women.
Pelayo and his father are usually associated with the party that supported Sancho I and his son Ramiro III. Their chief rival clan was led, during Pelayo's episcopate, by Gonzalo Menéndez, who supported first Ordoño III, later his son Vermudo II. García Álvarez credits fear of retribution from Gonzalo with forcing Pelayo into exile in Celanova. The rivalry between the two families, however, had more to do with a dispute between Gonzalo's mother, Mummadomna, abbess of Guimarães, and a relative of Pelayo's, Guntroda, abbess of Pazóo.Guntroda was a sister-in-law of Pelayo's uncle, Ordoño Velázquez.
The change was not welcomed by the citizens of Quedlinburg nor by the Princess-Abbess, as it led to diminishing of her power and loss of many of the abbey-principality's possessions. The Princess-Abbess protested against the sale and refused to recognise the Elector of Brandenburg as the abbey- principality's new guardian until military occupation the same year forced her to do so. As many of her predecessors, she often came into conflicts with the Council of the City of Quedlinburg and her guardian. Anna Dorothea suffered poor health in 1703 and went to Carlsbad to recover, but without success.
Born in Meissen, Hedwig was the youngest daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony, and Margaret of Austria. In 1458, the chapter of the Quedlinburg Abbey elected the 12-year-old Hedwig as successor to Princess-Abbess Anna I, who had died aged 42. Pope Calixtus III confirmed the election but decreed that the Princess-Abbess should reign under the guardianship of her father and canonesses of Quedlinburg until the age of 20. In 1465, she was invested with regalia by her maternal uncle, Emperor Frederick III, and started governing the abbey- principality on her own.
Over time, they acquired donations of various farms and lands in the surrounding area. They became a significant landholder in the region that way, with all the privileges pertaining to such a position. In 1482, under Abbess Isabel de Herrera y de Guzmán, the community joined the Reformed Congregation of Castile. This re-invigoration of commitment to the Rule of St. Benedict saw a revival and flowering of the monastery, which lasted into the mid-17th century. Work on the monastery church was begun in 1579 under the rule of Abbess Ana Quijada y de Mendoza (1543-1590), and was completed in 1599.
Mildrith's successor as Abbess, Eadburg (also styled Edburga of Minster-in-Thanet, a correspondent of Saint Boniface), built a new Abbey church, also at Minster in Thanet, dedicated to saints Peter and Paul, and translated Mildrith's remains there not later than 748 .D. The shrine within the Abbey became a popular place of local pilgrimage, with Mildrith becoming a much-loved local patron saint. minster-in-thanet.org.uk/abbey accessed 12 October 2014 The last Abbess of Minster in Thanet was Leofruna, who was captured by Danes in 1011. The abbey was abandoned and the church downgraded to a parish church.Rollason (1982) p.
In September 1327 the Pope wrote to the Bishop of Hereford asking him to intervene and secure justice between the rector of Eyton in Shropshire and the abbess of Polesworth. Northburgh had forced Thomas, the rector, to swear to pay the abbess two thirds of his income as a pension before allowing him to be inducted.Regesta 87: 1327-1328 in Bliss (1895) On taking up the post, Thomas found the remaining third of the revenue insufficient to support him. The Pope had already intervened, ordering members of the Lichfield chapter to annul the oath: Richard Bernard, the Archdeacon of Salop, William de Bosco,Jones Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541: Volume 10: Coventry and Lichfield Diocese: Chancellors of Lichfield the Chancellor, and Gilbert de Bruer, prebendary of Wolvey.Jones Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541: Volume 10: Coventry and Lichfield Diocese: Prebendaries of Wolvey He had also ordered the abbess to take the matter no further.
The building project was apparently completed through the funding of a wealthy relative. St. Eustochia was chosen abbess, and at the time of her death the convent was home to 50 sisters. She died on 20 January 1485, at the age of 50.
The composer Ludger Stühlmeyer dedicated his Quatre pièces pour Orgue:Prélude romantique, Caprice expressionique, Hymne impressionique, Fugue baroque in 2001 to her, "Äbtissin Clementia zugeeignet" (dedicated to Abbess Clementia). It was published by the Sonat-Verlag in 2013, ISMN 979-0-50235-058-1.
Some 24 women under vow, four novices, and 14 lay sisters remained in the monastery. In 1826, the last Abbess Juliana Mayer died. In 1850, the last living sister, Franziska Gaupp, left the monastery. This ended its use as a Cistercian abbey.
Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans (Marie Louise Adélaïde; 13 August 1698 – 10 February 1743) was the third daughter of Philippe d'Orléans, and Françoise Marie de Bourbon, a legitimised daughter of Louis XIV of France and his mistress, Madame de Montespan. She was Abbess of Chelles.
However, Bartolemea's admission was enough to ensure that Benedetta was stripped of her primacy as abbess and held under guard for the remaining 35 years of her life. She died in 1661. Her lover, Sister Bartolomea, died one year earlier in 1660.
Saint Ingrid of Skänninge (died in Skänninge, 9 September 1282) was a Swedish abbess venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. She founded Skänninge Abbey, a nunnery belonging to the Dominicans, in 1272. Her feast day is on September 2.
Rictrude (Rictrudis, Richtrudis, Richrudis) (c. 614–688) was abbess of Marchiennes Abbey, in Flanders. The main early source for her life is the Vita Rictrudis, commissioned by the abbey, and written in 907 by Hucbald.Karine Ugé, The Legend of Saint Rictrude, pp.
Marie Anne Éléonore de Bourbon (Marie Anne Éléonore Gabrielle; 22 December 1690 – 30 August 1760) was a daughter of Louis III de Bourbon, Prince of Condé. She was the Abbess of Saint-Antoine-des-Champs, an abbey in the Villejuif suburb of Paris.
Saint Willibrord consecrated Harlindis as the first abbess of this religious community. After her demise, Saint-Boniface consecrated her sister Relindis as her successor. The Codex Eyckensis was used at the convent to study and also to promulgate the teachings of Christ.
In Ruppin on 2 November 1442 Adolph married Cordula (died 1 June 1508), daughter of Albert III, Count of Lindau-Ruppin. They had seven children: #Anna (died 1 August 1485), Abbess in Derenburg. #Magdalena (died aft. 1481), a nun at Quedlinburg (1481).
The Latin cross plan ends in an extended apse with two side chapels. It has an octagonal cupula over the crossing. The cupula was likely constructed under the patronage of abbess Jerónima de Azlor (1609-1615). The Romanesque portal of the church (c.
Her little brother died in infancy, aged 2. She was one of three surviving children. Charlemagne's biographer Einhard states that Gisela had been dedicated to religion since her childhood. She became a nun at Chelles Abbey, where she was eventually made abbess.
Dode then took refuge in her aunt's abbey. She succeeded Beuve as abbess. At the end of her life, she obtained from Pepin of Landen, an act designed to protect her community. She is venerated in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
Cecilia was entered into the Abbey of Caen at a young age by her parents.Historia Ecclesiastica by Orderic Vitalis She became Abbess of Holy Trinity in 1112.Douglas: William the Conqueror, pp. 393–395 Cecilia died on 30 July 1126 in Caen, France.
W. M. McGovern (1924). Reprint: Delhi, Asian Educational Services, 2000. . The female tulku who was the abbess of Samding was traditionally a nirmāṇakāya emanation of Vajravārāhī. The lineage started in the fifteenth century with the princess of Gungthang, Chökyi Drönma (, 1422–1455).
Kleckewitz, 9 July 1731 - d. Dessau, 15 July 1786), Abbess of Mosigkau. #Frederick ["Count of Anhalt" from 19 September 1749] (b. Kleckewitz, 21 May 1732 - d. St. Petersburg, 2 June 1794), General Adjutant of the Empress Catherine II the Great of Russia.
22 She became abbess of the abbey. Catherine died in 1526, at the age of 26. She was buried in the abbey church of Neuburg. Her grave stone can be found on the north wall of the nave, opposite the monastery portal.
Indeed, Marie Angélique de Sainte Madeleine, (b. 1591, d. 1661) would become an abbess of the Port-Royal Cistercian house, where she is remembered for her reforms (prompted by St. Francis de Sales). One of the aforementioned authors was Antoine Arnauld (b.
Arthur Kleinschmidt: Christoph I in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB), vol. 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 228. [retrieved 20 September 2014]. They had 15 children between 1470 and 1493, of whom 13 reached adulthood: # Ottilie (6 June 1470 – 1490), Abbess in Pforzheim.
Reuter, 241. The first abbess of Gernrode was Hathui, the widow of Gero's son. Hathui was a member of the Billung dynasty and was a niece of Queen Matilda. The abbey was intended as a burial place and memorial site for Gero.
At the end of Errors, the world of the play is returned to normal when a Christian abbess interferes with the feuding. Menaechmi, on the other hand, "is almost completely lacking in a supernatural dimension".N. Rudd. The Classical Tradition in Operation.
Hieu was a 7th-century Irish abbess who worked in Northumbria. She was foundress of abbeys at Hartlepool and Healaugh in Yorkshire England. Hieu was also the first of the saintly recluses of Northumbria,Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, lib. iv, c. 23.
After Marietta's death, Maddalena begins to sleep walk and eventually meets Marcello. This meeting angers the Abbess and leads to Maddalena being sent away. Marcello (Conte) is the novel's main protagonist and the romantic hero. He is also best friends with Vivani.
She donated her father's extensive archive of books, letters and other documents to the State University of Milan in 1964. Her sister Algisa (1899-1994) became a nun, and eventually abbess, living in the convent of Lugo di Romagna until her death.
Euler may have been employed as her teacher. On 13 October 1764, Friederike Charlotte became Abbess of Herford. As head of an imperial abbey, she ranked as an Imperial Princess. She administered the abbey and defended its rights against the city of Herford.
The house was suppressed as part of the Dissolution of the Monasteries in November 1539, with pensions granted to the abbess, prioress and nuns. Considerable remains of the buildings survived into the seventeenth century, but only certain watercourses survive into the present.
Millam is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. A chapel dedicated to the Mercian Saint Mildrith (Mildred), Abbess of Minster-in- Thanet, who is said to have stayed there, exists in Millam, but is privately owned and not easily visited.
Mstivoj's daughter Tove married Harald Bluetooth and raised the Sønder Vissing Runestone in memory of her mother. Another daughter, Hodica, was abbess of the monastery at the Mecklenburg. Mstivoj also had a son, Mstislaw, often being confused with his similarly named father.
Serafima Meleteva or Serafina Rosov (born 29 April 1886) was an abbess of the Catholic Church of the Byzantine Rite, or, in other terminology belonged to the Greek Catholic Church and the Synod of the Russian traditions of the apostolate in the Russian Diaspora.
Felicity, Alexandra's only real rival for the position of Abbess. Her political strategy is to form sewing collectives among the nuns and preach free love. Mildred, one of the two main supporters and co-conspirators of Alexandra. Walburga, the second of Alexandra's main co-conspirators.
This minor planet was probably named after Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179). The Benedictine abbess is considered to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany. The was also mentioned in The Names of the Minor Planets by Paul Herget in 1955 ().
She ruled her abbeys successfully until her death in 1039. Despite the help he had received from the sisters, Conrad II denied Adelheid's request to succeed Sophia as Abbess of Gandersheim. Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, eventually granted her the right to rule Gandersheim too.
Every Easter Monday the doge headed a procession from San Marco to the convent of San Zaccaria, where the abbess presented him a new camauro crafted by the nuns. The Doge's official costume also included golden robes, slippers and a sceptre for ceremonial duties.
He forced her to enter the convent of Poor Clares at Pesaro. In 1475 Seraphina was elected abbess of the monastery at Pesaro, where she died in 1478. Her body, exhumed some years after her death, was found incorrupt, and is preserved in Pesaro Cathedral.
She was the heir of her father and his brother Coenwulf, and, by the middle of the century, she was probably abbess of Winchcombe, as she was disposing of its property. She died after 850, and may have been the mother of King Ceolwulf II.
Throughout the history of the Abbey of Saint John there were conflicts between the Bishop of Chur, the Grey League and the House of Habsburg. The abbey's ruler, the abbess, and the government authority, the vogt, were often chosen by one of these three powers.
234 One of her kinsman had been bishop there, and his successor supported her efforts. She died there c. 670,Jamie Kreiner, The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom (Cambridge, 2014), p. 189.and was succeeded as abbess by her daughter, Anstrudis.
Berthild was appointed first abbess of Chelles Abbey in 646. Berthild was known for her devotion to self-denial. She "was ambitious of martyrdom, but as no persecutors were forthcoming, she martyred herself with austerities." Saint Berthild's reputation drew several foreign princesses to the abbey.
Hilda ruled men and women,Bede, Hist. Eccles. lib. iv. Bede speaks of male students in the monasteries of the Abbess Hilda, and there are male names on the head stones, and male interments in the cemetery.Journ. of Brit. Arch. Assoc. i, 185; V.C.H. Dur.
It is a Benedictine abbey of women. In memory of Saint Ausone the entrance of the bishops in Angoulême was done in procession of the monastery of Saint-Ausone until the cathedral. The illegitimate daughter of Charles d'Orleans, Madeleine was abbess of 1476 to 1543.
11 August 2012. Web. {2012-9-20} She was a noblewoman of Normandy, the sister of Saint Vitalis. She became the abbess of the Benedictine convent Abbaye Blanche in Normandy, a religious community founded by her brother. Her feast day is celebrated on October 20.
This Sigibert IV found refuge with his abbess sister at Oeren and was the cousin of Sigebert de Rhedae, who was alive more or less around the same time. Historians conflate these two Sigiberts into one person. When did Sigebert IV die? We don't know.
Clus Abbey (Kloster Clus) was an abbey near Bad Gandersheim in Lower Saxony. It was a daughter-house of Gandersheim Abbey, having been founded in 1127 by Agnes, Abbess of Gandersheim, niece of the Emperor Henry IV, and was part of the Cluniac Reform movement.
The codicil is dated 1267. In 1267 Cardinal Uberto was named Auditor (judge) in the case of the confirmation of an Abbess for the monastery of S. Trinité de Caën in the diocese of Bayeux.E. Jordan, Registres de Clément IV (Paris 1893), p. 172 no.
1279) Archbishop-elect of Salzburg, Patriarch of Aquileia ####Engelbert III (1124–1173), Margrave of Istria, Margrave of Tuscany ####Henry (d. 1169), Bishop of Troyes ####Rapoto (d. 1186), Count of Ortenburg, founder of the House of Ortenburg ####Adelheid (d. 1178), Abbess at Göss ####Hartwig II (d.
Sancha was a daughter of Alfonso V of León by his first wife, Elvira Menéndez. She became a secular abbess of the Monastery of San Pelayo. In 1029, a political marriage was arranged between her and count García Sánchez of Castile.Bernard F. Reilly, 26.
Palace of Blessed Camilla's father, the Duke of Camerino Camilla Battista da Varano O.S.C., (9 April 1458 – 31 May 1524), from Camerino, Italy, was an Italian princess and a Poor Clare nun and abbess. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.
Wilfrid was a monk at Whitby and studied there when Hilda was abbess. He was consecrated abbot of the cathedral community in York during 718, and in 718 was consecrated as coadjutor bishop to John of Beverley.Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p.
4 Dec. 2013 with whom she had a daughter, St. Wærburh, and a son, Coenred. Eormenhild became a nun after her husband died in 675, and eventually became abbess of Minster-in-Sheppey and Ely consecutively. There are almost no contemporary records for her life.
Fredebeul & Koenen, Essen 1966, p. 58. "Born of a royal family, noble Abbess Theophanu donated this standard". The ends of the cross are formed by rectangular sections with rounded inner corners. At the centre on the front, there is a large, oval quartz crystal.
He took refuge with the English Jesuits at their house at Ghent. Whilst he was there he became the spiritual adviser to the Abbess, Elizabeth Knatchbull, there. He admired her and wrote her biography that was later published in 1931. He died in Ghent.
The Abbess Helene Prunner was replaced by Barbara Snäkler from the convent of Bergen, Neuburg. Between 1701 and 1712 the monastery was reconstructed. The redesigned abbey church was consecrated in 1730. As late as 1752 the abbey still held 189 estates in 36 communities.
Master Jiyu in 1989. She was chaplain to Rev. Master Jiyu for more than 15 years and has served the community as Vice Abbess, Chief Cook, Chief Precentor, Prior and Novice Master. She also served as Executive Secretary of the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives. Rev.
The following year, Abbess Marie-Bernardine Castella (1838-1849) was required to hand over the goods and archives of the Abbey to the cantonal officials, and had to agree to cease taking candidates to the community. Little surprise that she died the following year.
To show his devotion, Ubaldo is known to perform self-flagellation as a form of worship. He is devout to the Abbess and helps her derive the plan to send Maddalena away. Sister Beatrice is an evil sister at the convent of Santa Maria.
The family gave the couple large gifts to secure an adequate standard of living. The Empress Theophanu had consented to the marriage. Ezzo then took Matilda out of the Abbey where she had lived. However, Abbess Mathilde had vainly refused to surrender the girl.
This congregation focused their attention in discouraging street crime. One day, Ferré was forced to dress a gang member in nun's clothing, to confuse the members of a rival gang. Due to her actions, she was promoted to abbess of the convent.Ramos et al.
During the reign of her successor, Agnes Sauter (1480-1509), more altars were added to the abbey church, the chapter house received a chapel and the west wing was extended. Further improvements to the structure of the monastic buildings were carried out under abbess Margaretha Hautmann (1532-1539). The physical protection of the abbey, originally a task of the Empire, was transferred to the Imperial city of Biberach in 1481. During the German Peasants' War, the abbey was looted on 27 March 1525 by rioting farmers of the peasants' army from nearby Baltringen (Baltringer Haufen) after several complaints regarding the burden of heavy taxes had been ignored by the abbess.
In 1240 Cardinal Otto (Oddone di Monferrato), legate to the Apostolic See of Pope Gregory IX visited the abbey and confirmed a charter of 1191, the first entered in the Glastonbury chartulary. During the Middle Ages the abbey was the central focus of the town; the abbey's great wealth was acknowledged in a popular saying at the time, which stated that "If the abbot of Glastonbury could marry the abbess of Shaftesbury their heir would hold more land than the king of England". In 1260 a charter to hold a market was granted. By 1340 the mayor had become a recognised figure, sworn in by the steward of the abbess.
Facade and southern door of the Collegiate Church of Saint Gertrude (11th century). Nivelles Abbey was founded around 648-649 by the widow of Pepin of Landen, Itta of Metz, along with her daughter, Gertrude of Nivelles, with the support of the bishop, Saint Amand. The abbey began as a community of nuns; they were joined later by Irish monks from the Abbey of Mont Saint-Quentin, sent by Abbot Foillan to give support to the nuns. A group of the monks settled at Nivelles and it soon became a double monastery, led either by an abbot and abbess, later only by an abbess.
At the age of 16, she felt a vocation to be a member of the small monastic congregation which had raised her and she was quickly accepted and given the name Sister Mary Catherine of St. Rose of Viterbo."Brief History", Franciscan Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Shortly after her religious profession, she was named as Secretary of the monastery and of the Abbess. Her prayers and work then supported the Abbess in their efforts to help the development of their small religious congregation, which was struggling to follow a more strictly cloistered life. Thoughts of working in the foreign missions, however, never left her mind.
Whereas Werden Abbey sought to support Liudger's missionary work in the Harz region (Helmstedt/Halberstadt), Essen Abbey was meant to care for women of the higher Saxon nobility. This abbey was not an abbey in the ordinary sense, but rather intended as a residence and educational institution for the daughters and widows of the higher nobility; led by an abbess, the members other than the abbess herself were not obliged to take vows of chastity. Around 852, construction of the collegiate church of the abbey began, to be completed in 870. A major fire in 946 heavily damaged both the church and the settlement.
Bishop Richard Smith, who was charged with the spiritual care of the Catholics of Great Britain, then in exile in Paris, helped them generously and may be counted a co-founder. He blessed Lady Tredway as abbess, and the Priory of Notre-Dame-de-Sion was permanently established on the Rue des Fosses in 1639. Carre and Tredway were also practically the founders of the Seminary of St. Gregory (now Downside Abbey) for training priests for the English mission. A pension for English ladies and a school were attached to the new monastery, of which Tredway held the office of abbess till 1675, when illness compelled her to resign.
Matilda was the third daughter of Emperor Henry III and Empress Agnes, a daughter of the French duke William V of Aquitaine. Among her older siblings were Adelaide, who became Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim, and Gisela, who died in infancy. Her younger siblings included her brothers Henry IV, who succeeded their father as Holy Roman Emperor in 1056, and Conrad II, who also died in infancy, and a sister, Judith of Swabia, who was queen consort of Hungary from 1063 to 1074. In addition, Matilda had an older half-sister, Beatrix, Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim, born from her father's first marriage with Princess Gunhilda of Denmark.
In 1528, the crown interfered in the election of a new abbess after Cecily Willoughby (d. 1528). The abbey nominated the election of the prioress, Isabel Jordayne, described as 'ancient, wise and discreet', while Anne Boleyn favored her brother-in-law Philip Carey's sister Eleanor Carey. Henry VIII preferred Isabel Jordayne when Eleanor Carey's candidacy was destroyed by serious moral charges against her. In 1535, the abbess complained about Thomas Leigh's too strictly enforced enclosure, as it would not be possible for her to conduct the abbey's business properly if she was not allowed to leave the convent on business, as the abbey was in debt.
He directed that the abbess should never be chosen from among those who had been brought up at Fontevrault, but that she should be someone who had had experience of the world (de conversis sororibus). This latter injunction was observed only in the case of the first two abbesses and was canceled by Pope Innocent III in 1201. At the time of Robert's death in 1117, there were about 3,000 nuns in the community. In the early years the Plantagenets were great benefactors of the abbey and while Isabella d'Anjou was the abbess, King Henry II's widow, Eleanor of Aquitaine, made the abbey her place of residence.
A Protestant elementary school was founded in 1533 according to the ideas of Martin Luther. Closely linked to the University of Wittenberg, the premises were used as a school until 1847, when it moved into St Stephen's Church, and may be the oldest such school in Germany. In 1565 Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst (1545–1574) became abbess of Gernrode and the convent was led by Ascanian princesses ever since. It was finally disbanded in 1614, when the last abbess Sophia Elizabeth (1589–1622), daughter of the Ascanian prince John George I of Anhalt-Dessau, married Duke George Rudolf of Liegnitz. Gernrode received brewing rights in 1545.
Francesco died in 1694 without an heir and Modena passed to his uncle Rinaldo d'Este, Duke of Modena, who married Charlotte Felicity of Brunswick-Lüneburg His paternal first cousins included the Chevalier de Lorraine (lover of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans), Count of Armagnac; his maternal cousins included Louis XIV of France and the above- mentioned Duke of Orléans. She was made the coadjutrice of Remiremont in 1705; In 1710, she became the Abbess of Remiremont, a prestigious Benedictine abbey near Remiremont, Vosges, France. Taking over from Christina of Salm, she would remain the Princess-Abbess till her death in 1738. She died in Paris.
Also during excavations in 2006 under the parish church the remnants of an early medieval church of 11 x 5.7 m were found. The so-called abbess house and the main entrance in Maaslandse renaissance style were rebuilt around 1730-50 after a design by the Aachen architect Johann Joseph Couven. The abbey school was built in 1725 at the expense of Abbess Anne-Antoinette of Tilly d'Aspremont of Lynden van Reckheim and was among other things meant for free education to six poor girls. The abbey complex is surrounded by a partly renovated monastery wall, on which are found the coats of arms of some abbesses.
Her nuns were quick to abandon the Cistercian Rule for that of the Poor Clares. In France Jeanne de Courcelles de Pourlan, having been elected Abbess of Tart in 1617, restored the regular discipline in her community, which was transferred to Dijon in 1625. Owing to the hostility of the Abbot of Cîteaux to the reform Abbess de Pourlan had the Holy See withdraw her abbey from the jurisdiction of the Order of Cîteaux. In 1602, another reform was effected at Port-Royal des Champs by Angélique Arnauld, who, to provide for the ever-increasing members of the community, founded Port-Royal de Paris, in the Faubourg of Saint-Jacques (1622).
The absolutist view on government of her advisors often clashed with the ancestral rights of the chapters of Thorn and Essen, which the latter fiercely defended. For example, there was a dispute over whether the abbess could decide the arrangement of prayers and processions alone, or did she need agreement with the chapter. Another dispute, which even led to a lawsuit before the Reichskammergericht in Wetzlar, was about whether the Abbess or her officialis had the right to inspect the fireplace in the private residences of the canons in Essen without prior consultation of the chapter. In Thorn, there were disputes over revenue and judicial issues.
Essen Abbey was an Imperial abbey like Gandersheim and Quedlinburg and the abbess herself came from the Imperial family. Documentation that she took part in the Italian campaign of her young uncle, Otto II, like her eponymous aunt Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg, and her younger brother Otto is lacking. However, her involvement in the burial of her brother in the collegiate church of St Peter and Alexander, which had been founded in Aschaffenburg by her father, after he died in Italy in 982, is documented by an entry in a manuscript at St Peter and Alexander. Her uncle Otto II died in Rome a year later.
Alcuin and St. Bernard corresponded with its abbesses. At his installation the bishop went to the abbey on the previous evening; the bed he slept on became his property, but the mule on which he rode became the property of the abbess. The abbess led the bishop by the hand into the chapter hall; she put on his mitre, offered him his crozier, and in return the bishop promised to respect the rights of the abbey. The Jansenists in the 18th century made a great noise over the pretended cure by the deacon François Paris of Marie Madeleine de Mégrigny, a nun of Notre Dame aux Nonnains.
Other nuns also approach Sor Juana and ask her to run for election to be the abbess, but Sor Juana refuses saying that she is in the middle of writing an epic poem which she cannot give up. When the new abbess is elected she institutes a vow of poverty and tries to take away Sor Juana's books but the Vicereine insists that she keeps them. The Archbishop then attempts to censor Sor Juana's books based on a poem she has written about the Vicereine which he claims is sinful. Sor Juana's books are taken away but when the Viceroy hears of this he demands they be returned to her.
The convent was quickly built, and was dedicated to Saint Cecilia (Sainte Cécile) because of Dom Guéranger's particular devotion to that saint. The foundress, Jenny Bruyère, also took her religious name from the saint, to become Mother Cécile Bruyère, first abbess of St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes.Joris-Karl Huysmans, in his book La Cathédrale (1898), wrote admiringly of St. Cecilia's Abbey and the nuns' Gregorian chant (the French Benedictine Congregation having revived the use of plainsong) and of the "great medieval abbess" ("une grande Abbesse du Moyen Âge"). The 19th century abbey church contains a full-size replica of the monumental effigy of Saint Cecilia in St. Cecilia's Basilica in Rome.
According to the Domesday Book the abbess held Lyss, Froyle, Leckford Abbess, Long Stoke, Timsbury, and Ovington in Hampshire; Coleshill in Berkshire; and Urchfont and All Cannings in Wiltshire. The Nunnery was rebuilt again after the Norman conquest, perhaps by AD 1100, by which time it was known as St Mary's Abbey."The Nunnaminster in Winchester", City of Winchester During The Anarchy the monastery was burnt in the great fire of Winchester in 1141. The house became impoverished during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, but thanks to various grants and concessions it recovered its position and was in a healthy state at the time of the suppression.
In 1585 François provided a cartoon for a tapestry of Christ preaching on the steps of the Temple for the Church of Saint Madeleine in Paris. In August 1586, François contracted to provide designs for tapestries of the Life of the Virgin for Renée of Guise Lorraine, Abbess of the Convent of Saint-Pierre-les-Dames at Reims and sister of his father's employer in Scotland, Mary of Guise (who was buried in the Convent). The eight tapestries and his cartoons were to be 1.5 ells in height, and 10.25 ells in length. Each was to include the heraldry of the Abbess in the centre.
The buildings fell into ruin until the mid-1700s when Frazer Honeywood, a London banker, built a neo-gothic mansion and repaired the remaining medieval fabric. In 1892, the property was purchased by Charlotte Boyd whose life's work it was to create a trust to restore church property to its original use. She invited a small Anglican Benedictine community, the Community of Saints Mary and Scholastica, to settle at the abbey. This community had been founded by Fr Ignatius of Llanthony Abbey (Joseph Leycester Lyne) but had become independent of his rule in 1879, with Mother Hilda Stewart OSB as their abbess – the first Anglican Benedictine abbess since the English Reformation.
The cover of the gospels donated by the abbess. Theophanu was the abbess of the convents of Essen and Gerresheim from 1039 until her death in 1058. She was the daughter of Matilda of Germany and a granddaughter of the Byzantine princess Theophanu and the Holy Roman Emperor Otto II. During her abbacy, Theophanu was responsible for a number of artistic and architectural commissions, including the renovation of the west end of Münster church to reflect the design of the famous octagonal Aachen Chapel. She donated several lavish illuminated manuscripts, including the Theophanu Gospels (now in the Essen Cathedral Treasury) and the Cross of Theophanu.
According to local legend, Gertrude of Nivelles, abbess of Nivelles Abbey, was on her way to Lennik when her carriage became stuck in the mud. Therefore, she was obliged to continue her journey on foot. The name Pede would come from the Latin for "on foot".
The abbesses were the noble widows Sofia Emerentia Gyllenborg (in 1783-83) and Hedvig Christina Creutz (in 1783-96). The stift was dissolved by the foundation because of its bad economy in 1796, but the abbess and the other members were given a pension from the foundation.
His sister Acha was married to Æthelfrith, king of neighbouring Bernicia. An otherwise unknown sibling fathered Hereric, who in turn fathered Abbess Hilda of Whitby and Hereswith, wife to Æthelric, the brother of king Anna of East Anglia.Higham, Kingdom of Northumbria, p. 80; Kirby, p. 72.
Elizabeth Rose was a Benedictine nun at Chelles, France. She founded the convent of Sainte-Marie-du-Rozoy,St. Elizabeth Rose Catholic Online near Courtenay, Loiret, France, and served as its first abbess. Eventually she retired to live as an anchoress in a hollow oak tree.
Princess Therese Natalie of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (4 June 1728 in Wolfenbüttel - 26 June 1778 in Gandersheim Abbey, in Bad Gandersheim) was a German noblewoman. She was a member of the House of Welf and was princess- abbess of the Imperial Free secular Abbey in Gandersheim.
A year after becoming abbess, Matilda was assigned as regent of the kingdom when her father and brother Otto went to Italy. As regent, Matilda held a reforming synod at Dornberg. concerning the church in Germany. In 984, she held an imperial diet at her abbey.
The Abbey of Sant Joan de les Abadesses was founded in the Diocese of Vic by Wilfred and his wife Guinedilda to provide for their daughter Emma, who became the community's first abbess in 899 and was given immunity from lay jurisdiction by King Charles the Simple.
From 1797 to 1800, she was abbess of Drübeck Abbey. On 21 December 1807, she left the abbey to marry Moritz Haubold von Schönberg. She moved to his estate in Groß Krauschen, which is now in Poland and called Gmina Bolesławiec. She died there in 1856.
Kylemore Abbey Kylemore Abbey () is a Benedictine monastery founded in 1920 on the grounds of Kylemore Castle, in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. The abbey was founded for Benedictine Nuns who fled Belgium in World War I. The current Mother Abbess of the Benedictine Community is Marie Hickey.
The abbey is perhaps best known as the place where the novelist Sigrid Undset set her character the young Kristin Lavransdatter in the first volume, Kransen (1920), of the eponymous trilogy, during which Kristin was placed there in a form of schooling under the abbess Groa.
The abbess kept order among the nuns and had ultimate control of the abbey; the 13 canons were led by the general confessor. At its height, Maribo Abbey owned several manors and over 400 farms, making it one of Denmark's great landowners in the Middle Ages.
She became a full member of the order in 1415. Due to her age, it is believed that she initially resided in her own house on the convent premises. In 1447, she was appointed Abbess. Her election was controversial and an active opposition remained against her appointment.
The identity of Ealdwulf's queen is unknown. There were at least two children, his heir Ælfwald, and Ecgburga, who became an abbess. It can be assumed that the king and his family were Christians throughout their lives. According to annals written in Francia, Ealdwulf died in 713.
Exterior view (c. 1905) A nunnery was founded by Count Sunyer I and his wife Riquilda Toulouse next to an ancient church dedicated to San Saturnino. The church was consecrated on 16 June 945 by Bishop Guilarà. The first abbess was Adelaide, widow of Sunifredo of Urgel.
1450 depicting Guglielma blessing Abbess Maddalena Albrizzi and an unknown donor hangs in the Church of San Andrea in Brunate. Barbara Newman has attempted to identify the kneeling figures in the painting as Guglielma's followers, Sister Maifreda da Pirovano and Andrea Saramita, but this is contested.
Saint Hildegund, O.Praem. (c. 1130–1183) was a Praemonstratensian abbess. Born to nobility, her father was Count Herman of Lidtberg and her mother Countess Hedwig.St. Hildegund Catholic Online She was married to Count Lothair of Meer (now Meerbusch), in the modern region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
An inscription MA/HTH/ILD / AB/BH/II makes it possible to identify the monastic as the Abbess Mathilde. The inscription is probably faulty, with the second word to be read as ABBATI(SSA).Hermann, Die Inschriften der Stadt Essen (Die Deutschen Inschriften vol. 81), p.
Knatchbull died in Ghent on 5 August 1629. In 1650 Knatchbull's niece Mary was elected Abbess. The Ghent community had to flee to the UK in 1794 and they initially settled in Preston, moving to Caverswall Castle and then to Oulton in 1853 where it continues.
Elizabeth of Hungary, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, ed. Frank Leslie Cross, Elizabeth A. Livingstone, (Oxford University Press, 2005), 543. with whom he had three children: Hermann II, Sophie, and Gertrude, later abbess at Altenberg. He set up his court at Wartburg Castle near Eisenach.
The earliest known mention dates from 1197. Wevelgem was home to the Cistercian Guldenberg Abbey in the 13th–14th centuries, which owned grain mills in various locations. From c. 1278 to 1310, abbess Ida was in charge, though Marc Brion lists it as an abbey for men.
Between 1775-80, Harkort founded five iron works and became a major iron trader, exporting to Russia and along the Ruhr. The princess Abbess of Essen was one of her most important business partners. She played an important role in the industrialization of the Ruhr area.
Beuckers 1993, p.164-168. However, the determination of their age and their donor are part of an ongoing scientific discussion.Riemer 2013, p.39. Ida might also have given a column with a crucifix for the collegiate church in Essen, where her sister Theopanu was abbess.
It is unclear whether the gift included the entire Reuss valley or just certain settlements. The abbess appointed a vogt to manage the lands, but ruled the lands with a light hand. Many of the surrounding villages became tenants of the abbey or obtained similar privileges.
As a result, the entire dormitory and most other parts of the abbey were burnt to the ground. Only the church, the infirmary and the Abbess' quarters were built of stone, and thus spared destruction. The nuns had to rebuild the majority of the abbey complex.
Arnulf of Sens (c.794 – April, 841) was a Frankish noble, an illegitimate son of the Louis the Pious, son of Charlemagne. He had one sister, Alpaïs de Paris, abbess of St-Pierre de Reims. Arnulf's grandfather Charlemagne died in 814 with his father Louis becoming Emperor.
On 18 April 1610, Dorothea was elected successor of Princess-Abbess Maria of Quedlinburg. Vogt and patron of the abbey-principality at the time was Dorothea's brother, Christian II, Elector of Saxony. Emperor Rudolf II confirmed her election on 19 July. Dorothea's relatively short reign was uneventful.
Retrieved 4 December 2017.St Eanswith, Brenzett The Romney Marsh.net. Retrieved 4 December 2017. She was born about 630, and it is believed that she was the abbess of a nunnery at Folkestone.History The Parish Church of St Mary and St Eanswythe. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
Friederike Charlotte Leopoldine Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt (also often referred to as the Princess of Prussia; 18 August 1745 in Schwedt – 23 January 1808 in Altona) was a German aristocrat who lived as a secular canoness and ruled as the last Princess-abbess of Herford Abbey.
St Mildred, Preston next Wingham, Kent Saint Mildrith (; floruit 694–716x733), also Mildthryth, Mildryth or Mildred, was an 8th-century Anglo-Saxon abbess of the Abbey at Minster-in-Thanet, Kent. She was declared a saint after her death, and later her remains were moved to Canterbury.
It may have been preceded on the site by a hermitage dedicated to nursing. The nunnery was founded on 30 April 1338 Sir Johann von Bellersheim and his wife Gertrude, called Gezele von Düdelsheim. Its monastery church was consecrated to St Mary and St John the Baptist on 1 November 1339 and in 1342 pope Innocent VI incorporated the monastery into the Cistercian order and made it subordinate to Arnsburg Abbey. During the 14th and 15th century it was assigned lands. Monastic discipline declined under abbess Lucia and so in 1466 bishop Adolph II of Nassau replaced almost all the nuns and installed a new abbess. In 1535 the Protestant Reformation was introduced to Rockenberg - the monastery remained Catholic but the abbess was patron to the town's parish church and appointed tolerant Protestant pastors. In 1544 the Diet of Speyer assigned the nunnery to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and in 1581 it passed to the Electorate of Mainz. Oppershofen and Rockenberg became Catholic again in 1602-1603 due to the Counter Reformation and the abbey undertook major rebuilds from 1606 to 1619.
Elisabeth of Schönau (c. 1129 – 18 June 1164) was a German Benedictine visionary. She was an abbess at the Schönau Abbey in the Duchy of Nassau, and experienced numerous religious visions, for which she became widely sought after by many powerful men as far away as France and England.
Two 12th-century Latin texts (edited by John Blair)Oxoniensia 52 (1987): 71–127. were adapted into two Middle English accounts of the Life of Saint Frithuswith, which are included in the South English Legendary."The Legend of Frideswide of Oxford, an Anglo-Saxon Royal Abbess: Introduction." 2003.
Stafford Unification and Conquest p. 16 Also incorporated into the Liber was an earlier Vita, or saints' life, on Æthelthryth, the founder and first abbess of Ely.Blake "Introduction" Liber Eliensis pp. xxx–xxxi A work on the benefactors of the abbey was also used,Blake "Introduction" Liber Eliensis p.
She was the daughter of Baldwin II of Jerusalem and the Armenian noblewoman Morphia. Hodierna was the third of four daughters; her older sisters were Melisende (wife of Fulk of Jerusalem) and Alice (wife of Bohemund II of Antioch), and her younger sister was Ioveta (abbess of Bethany).
Historiskt bibliotek utgifvet af Carl Silfverstolpe In 1529, two monks and their confessor attended the Örebro Synod, and was noted to have changed their sympathies to the Protestant reformers. The same year, Anna Germundsdotter chose to resign as abbess and retire as an ordinary member of the convent.
The Pope is elected by the College of Cardinals. Women are not appointed as cardinals, and therefore women cannot vote for the Pope. The female Catholic offices of Abbess or Mother Superior are elective, the choice being made by the secret votes of the nuns belonging to the community.
Thus, it is possible that Agnes was named in a very good atmosphere. K. Jasiński, Rodowód pierwszych Piastów, Second edition, Poznań 2004, p. 261. It is also possible that she was named after his father's half-sister, the abbess of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg.This view was stated by Jacek Hertel.
His daughter Adalsinde also became a nun. Waldelene became the first abbot at Bèze. Amalgaire also founded a monastery at Bregille on the right bank of the Doubs for his daughter Adalsinde, who became its first abbess. This monastery was given the existing Church of Saint Martin at Bregville.
The reconstruction expanded the structure, including both a chevet and the foundations of a bell tower when it was dedicated in 1099. By this time, the chapel had become both a parish and collegiate church, staffed by a community of canons whose prior was appointed by the abbess.
At the age of 34, she was made novice mistress.Foley, Leonard. "St. Veronica Giuliani", Saint of the Day For fifty years, Giuliani lived in the Capuchin convent. With gritty determination tempered by humility, she led her sisters as novice mistress for thirty-four years and as abbess for eleven.
Together they built the church of Herzfeld, Westphalia, sometimes recorded as Hirutveldun. She was reportedly the mother of Warin, the abbot of Corvey from 826 to 856, Count Cobbo the Elder, and Addila or Mathilde, the abbess of Herzfeld. She was left a widow at a young age.
In the sixteenth century, two Spanish lovers are divided by the rivalry of their families. She then confines herself in a convent, and while the man searches for her, the abbess of the convent falls in love with him, hindering his research and carrying the girl to the Inquisition.
Her other sister's name remains unknown. As a young woman she became a Poor Clare nun at the Royal Monastery of St. Clare, located in her town, where she spent the rest of her life within its walls. She was later appointed abbess of the community three times.
The Priory of St Mary was founded before 1166 by Earl Gospatrick of Dunbar and ceased to exist in 1621. It had 121 members in 1537 and only 8 in 1621.Coldstream; Monastic Matrix Isabella Hoppringle (1460–1538) was the abbess of Coldstream from 1505 until her death.
Kunigunde, Countess of Weimar-Orlamünde (1303 – 29 April 1382) was a German noblewoman and nun. After the death of her husband, she served as the Abbess of the Convent of the Celestial Throne in Nuremberg. In German folklore she has been associated with the Weiße Frauen of Hohenzollern.
At first, for reasons that are unclear, he lived with his aunt, the abbess of the local monastery. It was there he first displayed a talent for drawing. Later, he was noticed by the art collector, Tomasz Zieliński and went to live with him in Kielce.Brief biography @ Antyki-Polska.
Imagina survived her husband by almost two decades but never remarried. For her widow's seat, Imagina initially took Weilburg Castle, and later moved to Klarenthal Abbey near Wiesbaden, where their daughter Adelheid presided as abbess. Imagina died at Klarenthal Abbey on 29 September 1313 and was buried there.
131-32 (British History Online, accessed 15 June 2018). Emma Beauchamp was abbess by 1369 until at least 1390. Maud died in 1377 and was buried at the abbey.F. Hazlewood, 'The monastery of Bruisyard', Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and Natural History VII, Part 3 (1891), pp.
Marie I or Mary (1136 – 25 July 1182 in St Austrebert, Montreuil, France) was the suo jure Countess of Boulogne from 1159 to 1170. She also held the post of Abbess of Romsey for five years until her abduction by Matthew of Alsace, who forced her to marry him.
To ensure Francisca Christina's election, the Palatinate sent a cannon with crew into the city. With such massive support and also supported by a previously issued papal permission to exercise the office of abbess in two abbeys simultaneously, Francisca Christina was elected 20 votes from the 22 voters.
Elizabeth and Philibert had two daughters, who were maids-of-honour to Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria, whom the Grand Dauphin married in 1680. #Claude Charlotte (c. 1665 – 1739), married Henry Stafford-Howard, 1st Earl of Stafford. #Marie Elizabeth (1667–1729), became abbess in 1695 of the in Lorraine.
The abbey was subsequently sold at public auction and the church demolished. The last abbess, Theresia Verbiest, died in 1802. The abbey buildings were later bought by the state and converted into an arsenal. What is left of the monastery's archive is held by the National Archives of Belgium.
With the popularity of the stage play it would seem Peggy Wood was not alone. Given the range of the piece and the average age of the actor playing Mother Abbess, the oldest character in the story, the song has proven daunting for many actresses over the years.
Canat de Chizy, pp. vi-vii. Peter Abelard spent his final months at the priory of St. Marcel, where he died on 21 April 1142. His body was interred there for a time, but secretly moved to the nunnery of the Paraclete and the care of Abbess Héloïse.
Alice was the second daughter of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem and Morphia of Melitene. She had three sisters. She was an aunt of Kings Baldwin III and Amalric I. Of her other sisters, Hodierna married Raymond II of Tripoli, and Ioveta became abbess of the convent in Bethany.
Tower from the castle of Krosigk. Conrad was a nobleman, the son of Dedo II of Krosigk and Adelheid of Hertbeke. Their two families had been intermarrying since the mid-11th century. Conrad had two brothers, Gunzelin and Frederick, and a sister, Bertradis, who became abbess of Quedlinburg.
This was a customary practice. She entered the Capuchin covenant at the age of seventeen in 1677. She was appointed first mother abbess of the new convent to be founded in Lima. Because of this, she left Spain never to return again in 1712 with four other founding nuns.
She was the daughter of Saint Bridget of Sweden and Ulf Gudmarsson of Ulvåsa. In 1337, she married the Norwegian noble Sigvid Ribbing (d. 1345). After the death of her first spouse, she married the Swedish noble Knut Algotsson. She was the mother of Abbess Ingegerd Knutsdotter of Vadstena.
Archduchess Maria Annunciata of Austria (13 July 1876 - 8 April 1961) was a daughter of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria and his third wife, Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal. She was Princess-Abbess of the Theresian Royal and Imperial Ladies Chapter of the Castle of Prague (1894–1918).
Upon the ordination she adopted the name of Dhammarakhita Samaneri. The Abbess of the nunnery was Dhammananda Bhikkhuni (Professor Chatsumarn Kabilasinga), who is also the first Theravada bhikkhuni in Thailand. Dhammarakhita graduated with a business degree in Australia. As a lay person she worked as a secretary and translator.
All proposals of marriage being either ignored or declined, Anne Charlotte later became Abbess of the monasteries Remiremont and Essen. In March 1729, Leopold caught a fever while walking at the Château at Ménil near Lunéville. He returned to Lunéville where he died on 27 March, aged 49.
With time, the anti-Catholic measures were relaxed, and the nuns were able to start receiving candidates again. The Abbey of Hauterive was re-occupied in 1939 by Cistercian nuns from Austria. Today, the community numbers about a dozen nuns. They are currently led by Abbess Gertrude Schaller, O.Cist.
As the ruler, Princess-Abbess Marie Elisabeth restored the castle, the abbey and the Abbey Church of St. Servatius, where she was buried upon her death in Quedlinburg. After her death, a princess of Prussia was finally elected and Marie Elisabeth was succeeded by Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia.
Domnall Mór Ua Briain, styled King of Limerick, founded Killone Abbey around 1190 for Augustinian nuns, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. Slaney, daughter of King Donogh Carbreach of Thomond, was abbess of this nunnery. She died in 1260. The ruins are near the northeast of Lake Killone.
He had previously been presented by the abbess and convent of Godstow to the vicarage of St Giles in Oxford, but resigned that benefice in April 1524.W.H. Turner, Selections from the Records of the City of Oxford (James Parker & Co., London/Oxford 1880), p. 52 (Internet Archive).
After that period, the community built a new school building, which was completed in 1966. The monastery was designated a National Monument in 1931. Today (2011) the monastery has 17 nuns, led by the current Abbess, María del Mar Martínez Lopez, O.Cist., who was elected on 28 December 2002.
She is remembered because a "poor brother and admirer" of the abbess created the "English Register". Its purpose was to explain the accounts, in English, to the nuns but it contained other descriptive material and today it illustrates "keeping and understanding records" in English in the 15th century.
Orla of Kilcreevanty () was an Arroasian Abbess. Orla is one of a very few known abbesses of Kilcreevanty. It was founded in the mid-to-late 12th century and appears to have continued into the sixteenth century. Orla experienced difficulties with William de Bermingham, the Archbishop of Tuam.
Retrieved 17 September 2019 Their origins are not known, but are presumed to have been built in the 1360s, when the abbess or other authority was given royal permission to build town defences. Each year the town hosts the Gold Hill Fair to raise money for local charities.
Listed residential building in Hagen-Hohenlimburg (Elsey), Im Stift 35. Built in 1789 in the late rococo style. The quarry stone wall in front of the house with classical pillars crowned by vases. Former curia house of the Elsey Monastery, abbess Amalie Dorothea Elisabeth von dem Bottlenberg's residence.
Its assets were seized by the Kingdom of Prussia. The abbess and the collegiate ladies received a pension from the kingdom. Friederike Charlotte fled the advancing army of the First French Republic to Altona, where she died in 1808. She was buried in the collegiate church in Herford.
It was led by first by an abbess and later by an abbot. The convent was founded in the city in 673. After St Etheldreda's death in 679 she was buried outside the church. Her remains were later translated inside, the foundress being commemorated as a great Anglican saint.
55 On the one hand, Valentín was noted as owner of an unspecified estate; on the other, he practiced as a physician.Cruz Ebro 1952, p. 163 His daughter and the aunt of Francisco, Margarita Estévanez Mazón, was a nun and grew to abbess of the Augustine convent in Burgos.
She could have lived as a financially independent widow before turning to a religious life, as was not uncommon for aristocratic women in Iceland at the time. In 1295, Hallbera donated vast lands to the foundation of a convent for nuns of the order of Saint Benedict. This was to be one of only two convents open to females in medieval Iceland, both of which were closed during the Reformation. Hallbera is known to have served as abbess of Reynistaðarklaustur from at least 1299 (until her death), but scholars Ármann Jakobsson and Ásdís Egilsdóttir also identify her as the "Sister Katrín" who was Reynistaðarklaustur's first abbess, arguing that Katrín was Hallbera's religious name.
By the marriage of her sister to the King of Sardinia, Anne Charlotte was aged 23. All proposals of marriage being either ignored or declined, Anne Charlotte was made the Abbess of the prestigious Remiremont Abbey on 10 May 1738. Remiremont had previously been the "property" of her older sister Élisabeth Charlotte (who died before Anne Charlotte was born) who was the titular abbess of the prestigious abbey which had many connections with the House of Lorraine. Her new title caused irritation between certain sovereign princes because this abbey, composed solely of ladies of high nobility and of which the temporal domain included a big number of towns, answered only to authority of the pope.
However, the Elector quickly tired of Aurora, who then spent her time trying to secure the position of princess-abbess of the Quedlinburg Abbey, an office which carried with it princely dignity as imperial estate of the Holy Roman Empire, and to recover the lost inheritance of her family in Sweden. In January 1698 she was made coadjutor abbess and two years later (1700) provostess () of the Abbey, but lived mainly in Berlin, Dresden and Hamburg. She was replaced as mistress by her own companion, Maria Aurora of Spiegel. In 1702 she went on a diplomatic errand to Charles XII of Sweden in his winter camp in Courland on behalf of Augustus, but her adventurous journey ended in failure.
" In 1533 Magdalena was elected abbess of her convent and was at the height of her power and popularity. But only in 1546, and after many false prophecies, visions, and miracles, including a controversial pregnancy, did the Cordoban Inquisition finally try her and sentence her to life imprisonment in a convent in Andújar. According to Montague Summers, Magdalena went to the "pope (Paul III) as a Penitent, and confessed her sins, that at twelve years old the Devil solicited her, and lay with her, and that he had layen with her for thirty years; yet she was made the Abbess of a Monastery, and counted a saint. [...] She died full of sorrow and deeply contrite, in 1560.
Eijun Linda Cutts (born 1947) is a Sōtō Zen priest practicing in the lineage of Shunryu Suzuki, a Senior Dharma Teacher at the San Francisco Zen Center. Cutts is a Dharma heir of Tenshin Reb Anderson, having received Dharma transmission from him in 1996. She served as co-abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center from 2000 to 2007, and had first begun practice at the San Francisco Zen Center in 1971; later, she was ordained a priest by Zentatsu Richard Baker in 1975. Currently living at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center, as abbess she had been aware of the significance in being a woman in a leadership position in religion that has historically been a patriarchy.
King James II was looking to set up foundations in Ireland and Butler was asked help found a new Benedictine foundation in Dublin. By letters-patent or charter, which is dated in the sixth year of his reign, and still preserved in the convent of Ypres, King James confers upon this his "first and chief Royal Monastery of Gratia Dei", an annuity of one hundred pounds sterling to be paid forever out of his exchequer, and appoints his "well-beloved Dame Mary Butler" first abbess. Her brother was King James's Chief Cup-bearer for Ireland, a hereditary title in the Butler family, as their name implies. Abbess Butler set out for Dublin in 1688.
Ruins of Niedermunster Abbey Part of the ruins of Niedermunster Legend creation Niedermunster Mont Sainte-Odile Camel Niedermunster Abbey, situated at the foot of Mount Saint Odile at an altitude of 511 meters, was founded around 700 A.D. to cater for the overflow of pilgrims to the Saint Odile Abbey, formerly known as the Hohenbourg. The abbey was founded by Saint Odile of Alsace, who was also the first Abbess. When Saint Odile died, in Niedermunster Abbey in 720, her niece Gundelina took over as abbess. Until the end of the 12th century, the two abbeys formed a single institution, but from the beginning of the 13th century, they began to operate as separate establishments.
The church was consecrated by Rotho, Bishop of Paderborn, in 1038, and Itta, abbess of the neighbouring monastery of Sant' Ellero, donated the site of the new foundation in 1039. The abbess retained the privilege of nominating the superiors, but this right was granted to the monks by Pope Victor II, who confirmed the order in 1056. Two centuries later, in the time of Alexander IV, the nunnery was united with Vallombrosa in spite of the protests of the nuns. San Salvi (Florence) The holy lives of the first monks at Vallombrosa attracted considerable attention and brought many requests for new foundations, but there were few postulants, since few could endure the extraordinary austerity of the rule.
He is having an affair with a relative of Father Canon Jean Mignon, another priest in the town; Grandier is, however, unaware that the neurotic, hunchbacked Sister Jeanne des Anges (a victim of severe scoliosis who happens to be abbess of the local Ursuline convent), is sexually obsessed with him. Sister Jeanne asks for Grandier to become the convent's new confessor. Grandier secretly marries another woman, Madeleine De Brou, but news of this reaches Sister Jeanne, driving her to jealous insanity. When Madeleine returns a book by Ursuline foundress Angela Merici that Sister Jeanne had earlier lent her, the abbess viciously attacks her with accusations of being a "fornicator" and "sacrilegious bitch," among other things.
On 19 December 1705, the project was restarted, under abbess D. Bárbara Micaela de Ataíde, from the House of Honra e Barbosa, in Penafiel. The abbess put the project under the direction of captain Domingos Lopes, from Porto and artillery lieutenant-general Manuel de Villa Lobos. Further support for the project was obtained by D. Bárbara de Ataíde, who (along with sisters D. Maria Ângela and D. Maria António) and brother D. Manuel de Azevedo de Ataíde (Military Governor of the Province of Minho) petitioned the King to provide a private judge and exempt the workers from military service. Although the project was tendered to masterbuilder João Rodrigues (from Ponta de Lima), but failed to complete the project.
The "War of the Escutcheons" () in 1566 between the duke and the abbess ended in favor of the duke, and the abbess never recovered her former position. In order to demonstrate their Imperial immediacy and their independence from the Dukes of Lorraine, the canonesses of the abbey mounted escutcheons around the town displaying the Imperial eagle. Charles III, Duke of Lorraine, took advantage of the absence of Emperor Maximilian II, away campaigning in Hungary, to remove the escutcheons by force and establish his de facto sovereignty. In the 17th century the ladies of Remiremont fell away so much from the original monastic style of life as to take the title of countesses.
Egburg (also Egburga, Ecburg) was a 9th-century abbess about whom little is known. A letter by her remains in the Boniface correspondence, in which she writes to Saint Boniface of her grief. The letter evidences that she was highly learned--according to Eleanor Duckett, "Her letter is short, and her misery is very great; she manages, however, to bring in four reminiscences of Vergil's Aeneid, two of various writings of Aldhelm of Malmesbury ..., two of a letter written by Jerome to the monk Rufinus, together with at least half a dozen quotations from the Bible". Lina Eckenstein proposes she might have been a daughter of Ealdwulf, king of East Anglia, and the abbess of Repton.
' Also, as many of the nuns and usually the abbess came from high ranking families, they had friends at court who often visited and even stayed in the monastery purely for social reasons. Some 'secular' women even seem to have been living in the monastery and eventually Bishop Gynwell ordered that none were to stay except those granted a special licence to do so. Even so, in 1379 Bishop Buckingham had to order the abbess to dismiss all secular persons from the monastery. Various records of subsequent years show that little ever improved and if anything the monastery became increasingly secularised, with the nuns maintaining individual households, dining with friends and wearing secular clothing.
That next year, Agnes handed over all authority over the hospital she had founded to these monastic knights. They were recognized as an order by Pope Gregory IX in 1236–37. Agnes lived out her life in the cloister, leading the monastery as abbess, until her death on 2 March 1282.
In April 2014, Holliday Grainger, Cara Delevingne, and Jack O'Connell joined the cast. In June 2014, Judi Dench was cast as the abbess of St. Ursula, who takes in orphaned children. That same month Tom Hollander, Cressida Bonas, and David Harewood joined the cast. In August 2014, Matthew Morrison joined.
The abbey was a member the Lower Rhenish-Westphalian Circle and the Rhenish College of Imperial Prelates. In the 17th century the governorship of the Spanish Netherlands sought to restrict the imperial immediacy. The abesses resisted these attempts successfully. In the 18th century, the abbess held the title of Princess.
Translated, with introd, and notes, by Allen Cabaniss. Syracuse University Press, 1961, p. 147. and a half brother of Adalard the Younger, who served as abbot of Corbie until 826. Wala also had a full brother named Bernarius, and two sisters Gundrada and Theodrada, abbess of Notre-Dame de Soissons.
In 1747, she became a collegiate lady in Herford Abbey. Around that time, it was decided that she would succeed Elisabeth of Saxe-Meiningen (1681-1766) as abbess of Gandersheim Abbey. In November 1750, she was appointed canoness at Gandersheim. Elisabeth died on Christmas Eve 1766, after 53 years in office.
Gontrodo was the daughter of García Pérez, tenente in Cea who distinguished himself in the conquest of Baeza and Almería, and of Teresa Pérez. Gontrodo's parents founded the Cistercian convent of Santa María la Real in Gradefes, which she joined after she was widowed and where she eventually became the abbess.
In 1542, troops of the Schmalkaldic League occupied Gandersheim and forced the Abbey to convert to Lutheranism. The Chapter, however, practiced passive resistance and remained Catholic. In 1543, the abbey suffered from iconoclasm. In 1547, Clara's father declared her resignation from the office of abbess, returning to the lay state.
It was at Seville that Ingund came into contact with Leander, a Catholic monk. Leander belonged to an elite and influential family of Hispano-Roman stock. His two brothers later became bishops and his sister an Abbess. The vast majority of the population of southern Spain was Hispano-Roman and Catholic.
Despite this, the buildings were rebuilt in 1596, owing to the patronage of Éléonore de Bourbon, Abbess of Fontevraud. The fence and the main gate were completed in the 18th century. Alas, the Priory and its lands were eventually sold during the French Revolution and used continuously for farming until 1989.
1056, died 1127. Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen. # Matilda, "daughter of the King", born around 1061, died perhaps about 1086, or else much later (according to Trevor Foulds's suggestion that she was identical to Matilda d'AincourtNottingham Medieval Studies 36: 42–78.). # Constance, died 1090, married Alan IV Fergent, Duke of Brittany.
Along the way, she meets fellow novice Arabella (Ara). Various nobles believe that Ara is the Argatha, a savior destined to save Abeth. Abbess Glass convinces the nobility that Nona is the Shield, destined to protect the Argatha. With her training, Nona recognizes that she also has quantal and marjal talents.
During some of her life she was resident in Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire. Werburgh was instrumental in convent reform across England. She eventually succeeded her mother Ermenilda, her grandmother Seaxburh, and great-aunt Etheldreda as fourth Abbess of Ely. She died on 3 February 700 and was buried at Hanbury in Staffordshire.
Saint Dode (born before 509) was an Abbess of Saint Pierre de Reims and a French Saint whose Feast Day is 24 April. She is reputed to be the daughter of Chloderic, King of the Ripuarian Franks and the sister of Munderic, making her a princess of the Ripuarian Franks.
At Ælfwald's accession in 713,Yorke, Kings, p, 63. Ceolred of Mercia had dominion over both Lindsey and Essex.Fyrde et al, Handbook of British Chronology, pp. 1-25. Ælfwald's sister Ecgburgh was, possibly, the same as abbess Egburg at Repton in DerbyshireFryde et al, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 9.
The couple had a son, Ecgfrith, and at least three daughters: Ælfflæd, Eadburh and Æthelburh.Kelly, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography It has been speculated that Æthelburh was the abbess who was a kinswoman of King Ealdred of the Hwicce, but there are other prominent women named Æthelburh during that period.
Maria Elisabeth of Austria (Maria Elisabeth Josepha Johanna Antonia; 13 August 1743 - 22 September 1808) was the sixth child and the third surviving daughter of Maria Theresa I, Holy Roman Empress and Francis of Lorraine. She was an abbess of the Convent for Noble Ladies in Innsbrück from 1780 until 1806.
Saint Clare of Montefalco (Italian: ) (c. 1268 – August 18, 1308), also called Saint Clare of the Cross, was an Augustinian nun and abbess. Before becoming a nun, St. Clare was a member of the Third Order of St. Francis (Secular). She was canonized by Pope Leo XIII on December 8, 1881.
Béatrice Hiéronyme de Lorraine (1 July 1662 - 9 February 1738) was a member of the House of Lorraine and was the Abbess of Remiremont. She was a member of the household of Le Grand Dauphin and was the supposed wife of her cousin the Chevalier de Lorraine. She died childless.
C. Ricci page 154-158. Critics including Roberto Longhi and Erwin Panofsky have dedicated monographs to the subject. The private room of the abbess was frescoed (1514) by Alessandro Araldi with grotteschi. The monastery contains a chapel of Santa Caterina d'Alessandria frescoed with scenes of her life also by Araldi.
He married Tetrata of Lombardy, a daughter of Pepin of Italy, son of Charlemagne. His wife was also the sister of his young stepmother, Adelaide of Lombardy. Lambert II and Tetrata were parents to three children: Lambert III of Nantes; Lisois Vetulus (Dove), Abbess of Craon; and Warnar of Nantes.
In 1918, three nuns ordained at this monastery established a private nunnery called Chi Chuk Lam () on Lantau's Lower Keung Hill (). The nunnery is dedicated to Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy. There were about 20 jushi and nuns residing there in the 1950s, but now only an elderly abbess remains.
In that year, Zbigniew was sent to Saxony, thanks to the intrigues of his new stepmother. Once there he was placed in Quedlinburg Abbey, where Judith Maria's sister Adelaide was Abbess. Probably there was finally ordained a priest.According to medievalists, Zbigniew was incarcelated in Quedlinburg and never accepted the ordination.
Jeanne most famously defends herself against Marie Dentière, a former nun. They disagreed most particularly about chastity and virtue and the right of women to preach. Jeanne calls her a “false, wrinkled abbess with a devilish tongue” who “meddled in preaching and perverting pious people.” Jean Calvin himself ridiculed Dentière's ideas.
In 1486 the abbey was damaged by a flood. In times of war it was plundered several times. During the Peasants' War in May 1525, Abbess Agnes von Tusslingen fled to Freiburg where she later died. The abbey was plundered by the peasants and later claimed compensation of 2,218 gulden.
Agilulf, also called Aigulf (c. 537 - 601), was a Bishop of Metz between 590 or 591 and 601, and was the predecessor of Arnual or Arnoldus or Arnoald (601-609 or 611). He was a son of Ferreolus, Senator of Narbonne, and wife Dode, Abbess of Saint Pierre de Reims.
In 1244 Przemysł I married with Elisabeth (ca. 1232 – 16 January 1265), daughter of Henry II the Pious, Duke of Wrocław. They had: # Constance (1245/46 – 8 October 1281), married in 1260 to Conrad, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal. # Euphrosyne (1247/50 – 17/19 February 1298), Abbess of St. Clara in Trzebnica.
86 A tradition at Worcester also recorded that it was Lyfing, along with Archbishop Eadsige of Canterbury, who forced Sweyn Godwinson to release Eadgifu, the abbess of Leominster who Sweyn had kidnapped.Barlow Godwins p. 53 In revenge, Sweyn raided the lands of the diocese of Worcester.Barlow English Church 1000–1066 p.
He spent most of the last 40 years of his life visiting and inspecting monasteries and convents, including Escherde (1441), Brunswick, and Wienhausen Abbey, then a Cistercian nunnery, where he removed the abbess in 1469. He also wrote some substantial surviving works, including a chronicle of Windesheim. He died at Hildesheim.
Cross of Theophanu, Essen Cathedral Treasury The Cross of Theophanu (German: Theophanu-Kreuz) is one of four Ottonian processional crosses in the Essen Cathedral Treasury and is among the most significant pieces of goldwork from that period. It was donated by Theophanu, Abbess of Essen, who reigned from 1039 to 1058.
When they arrived to the nunnery, however, she signaled the Danish authorities, and the refugees were executed as traitors. In June 1523, Stockholm was retaken by the Swedes and made capital of the independent Kingdom of Sweden. In 1525, Elin Thomasdotter is noted to have replaced Anna Leuhusen as abbess.
The town became a member of the Hanseatic League in 1426. Quedlinburg Abbey frequently disputed the independence of the town, which sought the aid of the Bishopric of Halberstadt. In 1477, Abbess Hedwig, aided by her brothers Ernest and Albert, broke the resistance of the town and expelled the bishop's forces.
Caesaria of Arles (also called Caesaria the Elder,Klingshirn, p. 18 died c. 530), was a saint and abbess. Little is known about her, but there were some "glowing" references to her in the writings of St. Venantius Fortuntatus; according to St. Gregory of Tours, her life was "blessed and holy".
Mother Gabriel was buried in the Franciscan graveyard, just outside the town walls. Her tombstone reads: > 1672\. Here lieth the Body of the R. Mother Maria Gabriel alias Helen > Martin, first Abbess and religious of the poore Clares of Galway, who died > the 14 of Jan. adged 68, in religion 40.
Archduchess Magdalena of Austria Archduchess Magdalena of Austria (German: Magdalena von Habsburg) (August 14, 1532 in Innsbruck - September 10, 1590 in Hall in Tirol)Profile on Darlene's Family Genealogy was a member of the House of Habsburg, and the founder and first abbess of the convent in Hall in Tirol.
Elburg van Boetzelaer (1506–1568) was the Abbess of the Rijnsburg Abbey from 1553 until 1568. She played an important part within the local Counter- Reformation by her reform work of Rijnsburg Abbey and her charity work, and also played a role as a patron of contemporary Dutch Renaissance art.
In 1998, A. californiense was isolated on the veil, tunic and wood fragments on the remains of a ninth century Longobard abbess at Pavia, Italy. The presence of A. californiense in this habitat indicates that A. californiense might be able to utilize some of the nutrients in human decomposing substances.
There is still plenty to be done. He gives all his lands in Oxfordshire to Katheryn Bulkeley, late abbess of Godstow, for life. He gives the advowson of Standish "to Thomas Gwente, John Gwente and their mother", on condition that they do not sell it. David Pole is his executor.
Aedh mac Felim Ua Conchobair (-1280). A daughter, Fionnuala Ní Conchobair died in 1301 as abbess of Kilcreevanty, Clonfert. Having married while his brother Aedh Ua Conchobair was designated heir, he more than likely married someone of non-noble birth and thus her name does not appear in the annals.
Marie-Catherine de Beauvilliers (25 April 1574 - 1667) was a French abbess.Dezobry et Bachelet, Dictionnaire de biographie, t.1, Ch.Delagrave, 1876, p.252 When she was 24 she entered the convent-abbey of Montmartre in Paris, installed as abbess in succession to her sister, some three years later, in 1601.
Saint Enda of Aran (Éanna, Éinne or Endeus, died 530 AD) is an Irish saint. His feast day is 21 March. Enda was a warrior-king of Oriel in Ulster, converted by his sister, Saint Fanchea, an abbess. About 484 he established the first Irish monastery at Killeaney on Aran Mor.
Adelbrin was the legendary first abbess of the monastery. The non-contemporary grave monument is preserved in the crypt of the church which is accessible from the outside. It is sandstone grave slab engraved with figures and leaning against a wall. The narrow side leans on a plain grave slab.
It was destroyed after 1959 but is in the process of being restored.Lhasa and Central Tibet by Sarat Chandra Das (1902), p. 139. Reprint: Mehra Offset Press, Delhi (1988). Unusually, monks as well as nuns both lived in the monastery under the abbess, Dorje Pakmo, although she now lives in Lhasa.
Virgilia Lütz (March 27, 1869 – June 8, 1949) was a German Catholic nun who is known for being the reigning Abbess of Nonnberg Abbey from 1921 until her death in 1949. She is known for her association with Maria von Trapp during the latter's time as a postulant at Nonnberg.
Augusta Dorothea was the daughter of Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia. She became deacaness in Quedlinburg Abbey in 1776. Two years later, she succeeded her aunt Therese of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel as Princess Abbess of Gandersheim. However, she continued to spend her life at the Brunswick court.
It is recorded within one chronicle, Liber Eliensis, that Ælfwaru granted to Ely Abbey the lands of Bridgham, Hingham, Weeting, Rattlesden, Mundford,Fairweather p. 159 Thetford,Fairweather p. 159 note 294 and fisheries around those marshes. Ælfwaru also granted the lands of Over and Barley to Chatteris nunnery, where her sister was abbess.
The book contains Elizabeth Shelford's 'ES' monogram, her rebus which is a scallop shell over water - 'shell-ford', and records of her election as abbess (25 June) and her subsequent benediction (12 July). Luxford, Julian. (2005). The Art and Architecture of English Benedictine Monasteries, 1300-1540: A Patronage History. Dorchester: Boydell Press. .
Hof Castle was part of the city's defensive system, along with the city wall. The nuns of the Monastery Hof, led by Abbess Amalie of Hirschberg, had escaped to Cheb (). The Church of St. Lorenz was looted and burned during the siege. The Watch Tower, although of little strategic importance, also burned out.
168 et seq. She became to close their daughter Archduchess Maria Anna. In 1790, Leopold became Holy Roman Emperor. Naudet and her sister Luisa joined the Imperial Consort Maria Louisa when Leopold's court moved to Vienna. In 1791, Archduchess Maria Anna became Abbess of the Chapter of Nuns of St. George's Convent, Prague.
By an unnamed wife, Ricdag, beside the aforementioned Oda, left a son and another daughter: Charles (died 28 April 1014), who was count in the Schwabengau in 992 and who was unjustly deprived of his benefices because of false accusations, and Gerburga (died 30 October 1022), who was later abbess of Quedlinburg.
Landrada of Austrasia (died ca. 690) was an abbess who is venerated as a Catholic saint. She is credited with the foundation of Munsterbilzen Abbey (Belgium), where, in 2006, 10 massive oak trunk graves were discovered, one of which is believed to have been hers. She died in Munsterbilzen about A.D. 690.
Butler was born at Callan, County Kilkenny, Ireland. Lady Abbess Knatchbull of the English Benedictine Dames at Ghent was her aunt and Butler was sent to her for her education. Butler petitioned, when she was twelve years old to be allowed enter the order. She was allowed to enter two years later.
It is traditionally believed that it was brought to them by Lady Abbess Messenger of Pontoise, who was related to the owners of Fountains.Camm, Bede. Forgotten Shrines, MacDonald & Evans, London, 1910, p. 380 In 1793, the convent at Dunkirk was sacked by revolutionaries and the religious imprisoned at Gravelines for eighteen months.
She became a Benedictine nun in Bassano on 8 September 1622 and fell into an ecstatic state for the first time at her profession celebration. She was also believed to have obtained the stigmata. She served as a novice mistress and later as a prioress. She also served as an abbess three times.
Beatrix von Holte (reliquary, 1310s) Beatrix von Holte (1250 - 4 December 1327 in Essen) was the Abbess of Essen Abbey from 1292 until her death.Ute Küppers- Braun: Macht in Frauenhand – 1000 Jahre Herrschaft adeliger Frauen in Essen. Klartext Verlag, Essen 2002, .Melanie Prange: Das von Beatrix von Holte gestiftete Armreliquiar im Essener Domschatz.
New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1909. 13 Mar. 2015 (The boy with the basket can be seen in the depictions by Josse van der Baren and Hans Baldung Grien in the gallery below). The oldest known version of the legend is Aldhelm's De laudibus virginitatis, addressed to Abbess Hildelitha of Barking Abbey, Essex.
She was succeeded as abbess there by her and Balderic's niece Dode (or Doda). Balderic was a guide and tutor of Saint Wandregisel or Wandrille, who stayed at Montfaucon after separating from his wife in 628. Balderic died at Reims during a visit to his sister. His feast day is 16 October.
Installation of Archduchess Therese of Austria as Princess-Abbess in 1836 The Theresian Institution of Noble Ladies, officially the Imperial and Royal Theresian Stift for Noble Ladies in the Castle of Prague, was a Catholic monastic chapter of secular canonesses in Hradčany that admitted women from impoverished noble families from 1753 until 1918.
The first known provost appears in the abbey in 1256-99. There was a Meisterin over the nuns in 1320 and an abbess is first mentioned in 1526-28. The Abbey ruled over a section of the lower Emmental including Rüegsau and Affoltern im Emmental. In 1454 it had its own seal.
Fresco by Paul Bodmer in the abbey of Fraumünster showing the two daughters of Louis the German Hildegard (828-December 23 856 or 859), was the daughter of Louis the German, Carolingian king of East Francia, and his wife Hemma. She was the abbess of Fraumünster, an abbey founded by her father.
The site later developed into the town of Pfalzel. She was the second abbess of this convent, after the archbishop' sister Severa, and died on December 24, 735. Some sources record that she was the grandmother of Gregory of Utrecht. She shares the feast day of 24 December with her sister Irmina.
By June 1171, his widow had entered the convent at Cañas, where for over thirty years she acted as de facto abbess. She was still living in May 1207, when she made a donation to San Marcos de León.For further references to Aldonza as a widow, cf. Barton, 41, 48, and 202.
1207), married to Count Eberhard III of Eberstein ####Mechtild (d.1245), married to Count Frederick I of Hohenburg, secondly to Count Engelbert III of Görz ####Poppo (1175 – Dezember 1245), Bishop of Bamberg ####Bertha, Abbess of Gerbstedt ###Otto (c.1132–1196), Bishop of Brixen and Bamberg ###Mechtildis of Edelstetten (d.1160) ###Euphemia (d.
They had five children. She was one of the first women to be active in public life during the renaissance. It is reported that she dressed in the habit of a nun or abbess. She founded the Hospital of the Holy Cross (Santa Cruz de Madrid) in 1506 in Madrid, which still exists.
Williams Æthelred the Unready pp. 106–107 Ælfheah was taken prisoner and held captive for seven months.Hindley Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons p. 301 Godwine (Bishop of Rochester), Leofrun (abbess of St Mildrith's), and the king's reeve, Ælfweard were captured also, but the abbot of St Augustine's Abbey, Ælfmær, managed to escape.
She was abbess of the nunnery at Barking in England.William Page & J. Horace Round, ed. (1907). 'Houses of Benedictine nuns: Abbey of Barking', A History of the County of Essex: Volume 2. pp. 115–122. She was also the superior to Cwenburh of Wimborne prior to that saint's founding of Wimborne Abbey.
Soc It is not known who replaced her as the next known abbess is Wulfhild of Norway, three centuries later and just prior to the Norman Invasion. She was unique in that under her control the abbey acted as a double monastery.Hollis, Stephanie. Anglo-Saxon Women and the Church: Sharing A Common Fate.
Halldóra Sigvaldadóttir (died after 1544) was the last abbess of the Kirkjubæjar Abbey on Iceland. Halldóra Sigvaldadóttir was the daughter of Sigvalda Gunnarssonar langalífs, who had a secular position within the church. She is described as a tall woman, in which she resembled her father. The year of her birth is unknown.
The uprising spread to the provinces, taking the lives of the abbess of the Benedictine nuns in Évora, the Prior of the Collegiate Church of Guimarães, and Lançarote Pessanha, Admiral of Portugal, who was murdered at the Castle of Beja. The rebellion was supported by the bourgeoisie but not by the aristocracy.
The work has been in Bergamo since as early as the 16th century, where it likely arrived as part of the dowry of Lucrezia Agliardi, who had been abbess in the monastery of Alzano Lombardo, whence the name. After several passages of ownership, in 1891 it was donated to the current museum.
The shrines of Vratislav and Boleslaus II of Bohemia are also in the basilica. The abbess of this community had the right to crown the Bohemian queens consort. The building now houses the 19th century Bohemian Art Collection of National Gallery in Prague.St. George's Convent: Collection of 19th-century Art in Bohemia www.hrad.
Mathilde took over as abbess of the St. Peters convent. Henry IV. grants Anno II, the archbishop of cologne, the convent of Vilich. Conrad III. confirmed the property and wealth of the church and attested that the nuns in Vilich still lived under the rule of St. Benedict with a law in 1144.
H. Tardif, 'Chelles, convent of' in New Catholic Encyclopedia, 2nd ed. (2003), p.463. In any case, Balthild exerted control by appointing her own choice of abbess, Bertila. After the apparent shift to the Benedictine Rule from that of Columbanus, the abbey was often governed by Carolingian princesses who continued this tradition.
Some of it was used to buy land for the convent while the remaining funds were given to the poor in a charitable act. In c.1000, Adelaide's sister Bertrada, abbess of St Mary in the Capitol died. Archbishop Heribert of Cologne expressed wishes for Adelaide to assume responsibility for the abbey.
Saint of the Day, Lives, Lessons, and Feast, (revised by Pat McCloskey O.F.M.), Franciscan Media Gertrude died at Helfta, near Eisleben, Saxony, around 1302. Her feast day is celebrated on November 16, but the exact date of her death is unknown; the November date stems from a confusion with Abbess Gertrude of Hackeborn.
The crucifix is not preserved, but, there still exist two metal plates, which state an abbess named Ida as donor.Beuckers 1993, p.163-164. Ida is represented in one of the statues on the first floor of the tower of the City hall in Cologne. These figures represent notable persons of the city.
The convent was located in or near what is now St. Augustine Street. Maria Gabriel became the first abbess of the convent; in September, her relative Richard Óge Martyn, became Mayor of Galway. Both he and his law partner, Patrick Darcy, were patrons of the order. By then, Galway was at war.
An Australian revival played in the Lyric Theatre, Sydney, New South Wales, from November 1999 to February 2000. Lisa McCune played Maria, John Waters was Captain von Trapp, Bert Newton was Max, Eilene Hannan was Mother Abbess and Rachel Marley was Marta. This production was based on the 1998 Broadway revival staging.
In the early 17th century Adherence to the Benedictine rule grew lax and abbess Marguerite de Quibly applied severe reform in 1620 before instituting the Benedictine Order in the Monastery of Our Lady of Bourbon with 5 Sisters of the Desert.Auzon : ville royale fortifiée : une des treize « bonnes villes » d'Auvergne, Pierre Cubizolles.
He shows up to rescue Choden, but they both get knocked unconscious. Choden reveals that the land deed everyone had been looking for had been sewn into the seam of Kinley's clothes the entire time. Choden once again disappears, and Kinley returns to the village. He learns that the abbess had just died.
33, notes that a version of the legend "was in existence by the second quarter of the eighth century"; Blair, The Church, p. 144, note 33. Circumstantial evidence would date the earliest version of the legend from the time of Saint Eadburg (died 751?), Mildrith's successor as abbess of Minster-in-Thanet.
As Otto III's nearest male Ottonian relative, Henry II claimed the regency over his infant cousin.Comyn, pg. 121 Archbishop of Cologne Warin granted Henry II the regency without substantial opposition. Only Otto III's mother Theophanu objected, along with his grandmother, the Dowager Empress Adelaide of Italy, and his aunt, Abbess Matilda of Quedlinburg.
2017 Maria Niklewicz became a nun and longtime abbess of the Visitandine convent in Warsaw.Maria Klaudia Niklewicz, [in:] Wyborcza service 31.03.2011 Krystyna Niklewicz was a hispanist, academic and translator,Maria Małgorzata Koszla-Szymańska, Nauczanie języka hiszpańskiego na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim w latach 1917-2017 [lecture at a conference of 2017 in Warsaw], p.
On the eastern slope of the Mont Sainte-Odile she built a hospice called Niedermünster or Nieder- Hohenburg, which afterwards became a house for ladies of nobility until it was destroyed by lightning in 1572. Originally Hohenburg seems to have been occupied by Benedictine nuns who were replaced by canonesses in the 11th century. Devastated by fire several times, the abbey church was rebuilt in 1050 and consecrated by Pope Leo IX. When in the first half of the 12th century the monastery began to decline, its discipline was restored by Abbess Relindis of Bergen near Neuburg an der Donau, who became abbess of Hohenburg in about 1140. During her rule Hohenburg became famous for its strict discipline as well as the great learning of its nuns.
Adelaide's father died in 1056, leaving their minor son and his siblings under the regency of the dowager empress. From Henry's first marriage with Princess Gunhilda of Denmark, Adelaide had an elder half-sister, Beatrice (1037–1061), whom she subsequently succeeded in her offices: in 1061, she was elected successor to Beatrice as Imperial Abbess of Gandersheim. Two years later, Adelaide succeeded her half-sister as Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg; she was possibly ordained in Goslar Cathedral at Pentecost 1063, witnessing the violent Precedence Dispute. She ruled both abbeys as Adelaide II. Quedlinburg Abbey In Gandersheim, already the appointment of Beatrice in 1043 (at the age of seven) by King Henry III had caused trouble with the canonesses insisting on their autonomy and electoral rights.
Unknown to them, Glomgold has been spying on them all this time, disguised as a waitress, so he decides to follow them to Bogota. When the Ducks reach the monastery on the Cundinamarca Plateau, the abbess tells them that their archives are off-limits to outsiders, due to the theft of the golden plaque in 1580 which was perpetrated by the monastery's founder, and the nuns haven't trusted outsiders ever since. Scrooge hands the abbess the very golden plaque he holds and she graciously grants the Ducks permission to visit the archives. In the archives, the Ducks find the original contract signed by de Quesáda, Federmann, and de Belalcázar, but Glomgold, disguised as a nun, immediately steals it before running off.
The abbess had the privilege to appoint offices in her realm, which made her an important patron; her most prestigious cause of patronage was her right to appoint deacon to the conventual church, which had a great deal of clergymen in office at any given time.British History Online (.ac.uk) Abbey of Wilton Wilton Abbey was favored by the royal family and given many rich donations from members of the royal family, such as from Henry I and Queen Maud. The king, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Salisbury, and sometimes the queen, had the right to nominate nuns to Wilton, and the king exercised this right on his coronation and on the creation of a new abbess, and the queen on her coronation.
Since the current crucifix is not fitted on the inside, it was assumed that the Cross of Mathilde was made in the middle of the eleventh century and an original, chased crucifix was replaced by the casts. Since scholars assumed that Abbess Sophia had discontinued several projects of Mathilde, such as the westwerk of Essen Minster or the Marsus shrine, it was also assumed that the Cross of Mathilde was first assembled under Abbess Theophanu, or rather that she had first arranged Mathilde's donation. Fremer, Äbtissin Theophanu und das Stift Essen, p. 102. An argument in favour of this is the similarity of the donor portrait of the Cross of Mathilde to the donor portrait of Theophanu on the book cover of the Theophanu Gospels.
When Robert Wise and his film crew were filming this scene, Peggy Wood had some reservations about the words, which she felt were too "pretentious." So they filmed Peggy Wood in silhouette, against the wall of the set for the Mother Abbess' office. Peggy Wood's singing voice is dubbed by Margery MacKay, the wife of the rehearsal pianist Harper MacKay, as Wood was not able to sing the high notes of the song. Rodgers wrote the piece in the key of C, with a modulation towards the end of the piece into the key of D flat, making the last note that the Mother Abbess sings an A flat (Ab5), though in the film it was sung a tone lower.
Mary of Jesus of Ágreda (), OIC, also known as the Abbess of Ágreda (2 April 160224 May 1665), was a Franciscan abbess and spiritual writer, known especially for her extensive correspondence with King Philip IV of Spain and reports of her bilocation between Spain and its colonies in New Spain. She was a noted mystic of her era. A member of the Order of the Immaculate Conception, also known as Conceptionists, Mary of Jesus wrote 14 books, including a series of revelations about the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Her bilocation activity is said to have occurred between her cloistered monastery in rural Spain and the Jumano Indians of central New Mexico and West Texas, and inspired many Franciscan missionaries in the New World.
The church and monastery of São Luís was founded in 1596, for the Poor Clares sisters by Luís de Figueiredo Falcão. At its founding, it was stipulated that he and his descendants should be buried in the monastery and that the family's coat-of- arms should be inscribed into the walls of the structure. Also, his sister, who was abbess would remain in that position for life, moving from the Convent of Santa Clara in Guarda to take-up her residence, along with 33 other clerics (ten of which were selected by the new abbess) and a stipend of 20$000 réis. It was further stipulated that the convent would be closed to the public and only visited by close family members.
As the abbey prospered, West Malling became a flourishing market town. In the four-and-a-half centuries of Benedictine life at the abbey, major events included a fire in 1190 which destroyed much of the abbey and town, the Black Death in 1349 which reduced the community to four nuns and four novices, and the surrender of Malling to the Crown on 28 October 1538 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The last elected abbess, Elizabeth Rede, had been deposed when she defied both Henry VIII and Thomas Cranmer over the appointment of a high steward for the abbey. Margaret Vernon, who had been tutor to Cranmer's son, and had already surrendered Little Marlow Priory, was appointed Abbess of Malling in her place.
Elisabeth was a daughter of Duke Julius of Brunswick- Wolfenbüttel (1528-1589) from his marriage with Hedwig (1540-1602), a daughter of Elector Joachim II of Brandenburg. In 1568, Gandersheim Abbey turned Protestant, under pressure from Julius. However, the abbess, Margaret of Chlum was still Catholic. Julius tried to have Elisabeth elected in her place.
In 1744 the Dowager Duchess of Lorraine, Princess of Commercy died aged 68. After her mother's death, she went to Vienna. She attended the Imperial family in Frankfurt and witnessed the coronation of François as Emperor on 4 October 1745, feast day of Saint Francis. The Abbess was given apartments at the vast Schönbrunn Palace.
She falls in love with the baby and tries to take him to the Isle of Joy, but drops him in the stormy sea. Uther banishes her to Tintagel nunnery. Abbess Bryvyth and her pagan nurse Gwennol battle for her soul. King Mark frees her from Tintagel, evicts the nuns, and marries her to Urien.
Eventually she became the abbess of the convent.Langdon (2006), p. 124 Porzia was in close contact with members of the de' Medici family, including her half-sister Giulia de' Medici and her half-brother Giulio. A mural was painted depicting Porzia with Francesco, Ferdinando, Giovanni, and Garzia, the four sons of Cosimo I de' Medici.
Internet Broadway Database. Early to Bed, Broadhurst Theatre, (17 June 1943 - 13 May 1944). Her final performance came in 1946, after her marriage to Paul Lavalle. In 1959 she resisted the efforts of Richard Rodgers to secure her for the part of the Mother Abbess in the first Broadway production of The Sound of Music.
88 and the community was expelled. The annual net revenues were then reported to be £1,731. A very large pension of £200 was given to the abbess Agnes Jordan and one of £6 each to the junior nuns. The male Confessor-General received a pension of £15, the junior monks receiving £6 to £8 each.
He transferred the proceedings to the Papal curia in Avignon. According to contemporaries, Heinrich was a chatterer and too fond of drink. He died on 5 January 1332 in Bonn and was buried in St. Barbara's Chapel in Bonn Minster, next to his sister, the abbess Ponzetta of Dietkirchen. His grave is no longer extant.
The ballet was created (in part) to demonstrate the building's newly installed gas lighting. The lighting was capable of creating ghastly effects. Ballet of the Nuns starred Marie Taglioni as the Abbess Helena. Although opening night was marred with a few mishaps, Taglioni made her indelible mark on the ballet world in the role.
Bad press directed at her father may have caused Taglioni to withdraw. Taglioni was replaced by Louise Fitzjames, who danced the role 232 times. The Danish choreographer August Bournonville saw Fitzjames's performance as the Abbess in Paris in 1841. He based his own choreography, which was used in Copenhagen between 1843 and 1863, on this.
In exchange for this Ulm, which had been Protestant since the first half of the 16th century, gave up its protection, territorial and legal rights over Söflingen Abbey. At the same time, the abbey finally achieved Imperial immediacy with the abbess receiving a seat and voting rights in the Swabian Circle and the Reichstag.
Archduchess Maria Antonietta of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (Maria Antonietta Leopolda Annunziata Anna Amalia Giuseppa Giovanna Immacolata Tecla; 10 January 1858 – 13 April 1883) was a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. She served as the Princess-Abbess of the Theresian Royal and Imperial Convent in Hradčany from 1881 until her death in 1883.
Wulfhilda was born in 940. The daughter of a Wessex nobleman named Wulfhelm, she was raised and educated by Benedictine nuns and joined their community when she became of age. Around 970, she was appointed as abbess of Barking Abbey by Edgar the Peaceful. Under Wulfhilda's leadership, the monastery flourished and was greatly expanded.
St. Werburgh's Church is a Church of Ireland church building in Dublin, Ireland. The original church on this site was built in 1178, shortly after the arrival of the Anglo-Normans in the town. It was named after St. Werburgh, abbess of Ely and patron saint of Chester. The current building was constructed in 1719.
According to Caesarius, women should be in charge of convents. The abbess or prioress should be "superior in rank" and "obeyed without murmuring".Ranft 116. Caesarius ensured that the abbesses of the convents would be free of forced obedience to the local diocesan bishop by obtaining a Papal letter exempting the convent from episcopal authority.
Bosa was a Northumbrian, educated at Whitby Abbey under the abbess Hilda.Thacker "Bosa (St Bosa)" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography He subsequently joined the monastery as a monk,Stenton Anglo Saxon England pp. 135–136 and became one of five men educated at Whitby who went on to become bishops.Blair World of Bede p.
The abbey was then visited by Bishop Canute of Linköping, who ordered them to obey Ingegerd's authority. Hereafter, the nuns asked Ingegerd to leave her post. When she refused, the nuns and monks joined forces and deposed her in a coup and choose Christina Staffansdotter Stangenberg (d. 1438) as acting abbess while Ingegerd was investigated.
Kiyoaki is aware that Satoko has a crush on him, and pretends indifference to her. Shortly after they all meet, there is a bad omen: they see a dead black dog at the top of a high waterfall. The Abbess offers to pray for it. Satoko insists on picking flowers for the dog with Kiyoaki.
Mathilde was probably involved with the Abbey from her youth, perhaps being educated and trained there from 953, or alternatively from 957 (the year of her father's death). Essen Abbey, founded in 845 by Altfrid, Bishop of Hildesheim and Gerswid, who became the first abbess, had been connected with the Liudolfings since its foundation.
The Office of the Hegumenia (Abbess) with it Mary Magdalen House Church and the Alexander Nevsky Trapeza Church were built in the end of the 19th century. Finally. The Transfiguration Cathedral was built in 1907–1916. In 2003-2004 there were significant restoration works in the Monastery celebrating 250 year anniversary of Saint Seraphim.
A staunch Calvinist, Christina Charlotte chose a religious life. On 17 April 1765 she became a secular canoness at Herford Abbey, a Lutheran imperial abbey in Saxony. On 12 July 1766 she was appointed coadjutor abbess of Herford, where she ruled alongside Friederike Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt. She resigned from her position in 1779.
St. Amalberga of Maubeuge became a member of the community later in the eighth century. Maubeuge was designated a royal abbey in 864, under the Treaty of Meersen, which divided Lotharingia.Jo Ann McNamara, Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millennia (1996), p. 164. In the eleventh century the abbess was a powerful local figure.
Duke Premislav was married (1463) to Machna (1442–1472), the eldest daughter of Duke Nikolaus I of Silesia-Oppeln. The couple left no male heirs, just a surviving daughter Margaret of Tost (1467 – November 8, 1531) who took holy orders and was appointed abbess of the convent of St Klara in Breslau (1508–1531).
Tower of the City hall in Cologne - Ida and Hildebold Ida (born before 1025, died 7 or 8 April 1060) was abbess of the convent St. Maria im Kapitol (St. Mary's in the Capitol) in Cologne. She belonged to the family of the Ezzonids, who became prominent in Lower Lorraine in the 11th century.
He visited the court of Alfonso VI in 1089, where he subscribed to a royal charter. His brother, Ermeíldo Fernández, had a palace in Val de Trigueros in 1095. They had four sisters: Urraca (an abbess), Mayor, María and Munia. All six siblings gathered in 1101 to make a donation to the Abbey of Sahagún.
She granted additional rights to the town of Quedlinburg and raised the income of preachers and teachers. The 26-year-old Princess-Abbess died suddenly in Dresden during a visit to her brother. She was buried in Freiberg. As she had not selected her coadjutrix, the chapter elected Duchess Dorothea Sophia of Saxe-Altenburg.
While Elisabeth was abbess, the convent became a refuge from religious persecution for people and she welcomed more marginal religious sects, including the Labadists. When Robert Barclay's father David was imprisoned, Elisabeth intervened and helped to get him released. Elisabeth died on February 12, 1680. She was buried in the Abbey Church of Herford.
She was sent to be educated at Maubuisson Abbey, ruled by Angélique d'Estrées, sister of the Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of Henry IV. Months before her 12th birthday, she became coadjutrix to the Abbess of Port-Royal on 5 July 1602.Fournet, Pierre Auguste. "Arnauld." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907.
Euphrosyne of Greater Poland (; 1247/50 – 17/19 February 1298) was a Greater Poland princess, member of the House of Piast and abbess of St. Clara in Trzebnica. She was the second daughter of Przemysł I, Duke of Greater Poland and Poznań, by his wife Elisabeth, daughter of Henry II the Pious, Duke of Wrocław.
In 1434, Giovanni painted a small altarpiece for the Oratorio di S. Eugenio a Pugliano. The altarpiece depicts the Annunciation with Saints Eugenio, Benedict, John the Baptist and Nicholas, and still resides in the church. The altarpiece identifies its patron as Abbess Caterina da Castiglionchio, a member of the powerful Castiglionchio family of lords.
Despite her clearly Protestant religious views, both the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor gave her permission to choose a coadjutor abbess when she expressed a need for help in her later years. Anna died on 4 March 1574 at the age of seventy and was succeeded by Countess Elisabeth of Regenstein-Blankenburg (Elisabeth II) the following day.
The second book opens with the election of Otto the Great as German king, treats of the risings against his authority, omitting events in Italy, and concludes with the death of his wife Edith in 946. He dedicates his writings to Matilda, daughter of Otto and abbess of Quedlinburg, a descendant of the Saxon leader Widukind, his own namesake.
During the secularisation in 1803, Heggbach Abbey came into the possession of Count Waldbott von Bassenheim, passing in 1806 to the Kingdom of Württemberg. The existing nuns were allowed to remain in the abbey and received a pension but no new nuns were allowed to enter the community. The last abbess, Maria Anne Vogel, died in 1825.
Construction on the crypt, the eastern apse and the convent started in 959. In 961, the foundation was awarded royal protection and in 963 the pope issued a privilege, which removed the convent from the influence of the Bishop of Halberstadt. Siegfried had died heirless in 959. After Siegfried's death, his widow Hathui had become abbess of the convent.
Of the monastic buildings only a part of the east wing is preserved. A keystone in the arch bears the arms of Abbess Dorothea von Kemmaten (circa 1453). The remains of paintings from the second half of the 15th century can still be seen. The entire monastery area consisted of several buildings, which were surrounded by a moat.
Vulfetrude, or Wulfetrude (died 669), was an Abbess of Nivelles from 659-669 AD. She was a daughter of Grimoald I, therefore, a grand daughter Pepin the Elder, mayor of the palace of Austrasia and Itte Idoberge of the Carolingian dynasty.Pierre Riché, Les Carolingiens, une famille qui fit l'Europe, Paris: Hachette, coll. « Pluriel », 1983 (reprinted 1997), 490 p.; pp.
The abbey church of Thorn First, the region of Thorn was a swamp nearby the Roman road between Maastricht and Nijmegen. But the region had been drained and about 975, Bishop Ansfried of Utrecht founded a Benedictine nunnery. This monastery developed since the 12th century into a secular stift or convent. The principal of the stift was the abbess.
Thietmar was appointed Bishop of the diocese of Hildesheim on 5 May 1038. On 20 August he received episcopal consecration in Lorsch by Archbishop Bardo of Mainz. In 1039 he appointed Adelaide, daughter of Otto II, as abbess in Gandersheim Abbey. He is buried in Hildesheim Cathedral in the crypt next to Bishop Godehard of Hildesheim.
Sister Mary Catherine worked to establish houses for orphans."100 years in the Holy Land. The Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary", Custodia Terrae Santae, April 30, 2019 The sisters soon learned Arabic to make their mission effective. Sister Catherine provided much of the leadership of the new foundation, due to the poor health of the Abbess.
Charlotte Armande succeeded her aunt Anne Marguerite de Rohan as abbess in 1721. She died in Paris on the Rue de Paradis. over the night of Friday 20/21 March 1727 She was buried on the 23rd at the Église de La Merci in the capital. Her husband married again in 1732 to Marie Sophie de Courcillon.
They were married on 4 August 1718 at Jouarre Abbey where her older sister Charlotte Armande was Abbess. Louise presented her daughter, Charlotte Louise, to Louis XV and the queen, Marie Leszczyńska on 26 October 1737 at Fontainebleau. Two days later Charlotte Louise married the Italian Prince of Masserano. The Prince of Masserano was the Spanish ambassador in London.
The dancing girls plan a feast for Ursula, but Carmela denounces her as a fallen nun. They all attack her and brutally beat her for her sins. Suddenly Ursula wakes up on the altar with the Abbess beside her, and realizes it was all just a bad dream. She never really left the convent at all.
On the other hand, Heinrich Fichtenau believed the Annales mosellani depended on the Annales laureshamenses.McKitterick 2004, 108. The Annales mosellani are not restricted in their coverage to the Carolingian Empire. Under the year 713 there is a reference to mors Alflidae et Halidulfi regis, the deaths of Ælflæd, Abbess of Whitby, and Aldwulf, King of East Anglia.
Nordahl-Olsen: Ludvig Holberg i Bergen (pp. 17–18), John Griegs forlag, Bergen 1905. As a queen, she received several of her relatives in Denmark. Her younger sister, Sophie Caroline, Dowager Princess of Ostfriesland, was appointed by her as abbess at Vallø stift, with an annual pension of 16,600 thalers,Signe Prytz: Sorgenfri Slot, 1979, p. 31.
Other orders that are essentially cenobitical, notably the Trappists, maintain a tradition under which individual monks or nuns who have reached a certain level of maturity within the community may pursue a hermit lifestyle on monastery grounds under the supervision of the abbot or abbess. Thomas Merton was among the Trappists who undertook this way of life.
Eadwulf's reign lasted only a few months however, before he was expelled to make way for Aldfrith's son Osred, to whom Wilfrid acted as spiritual adviser. Wilfrid may have been one of Osred's chief supporters, along with Oswiu's daughter Abbess Ælfflæd of Whitby,Yorke Kings and Kingdoms p. 88 and the nobleman Beornhæth.Yorke Kings and Kingdoms p.
Benedictine abbess Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) wrote several influential theological, botanical, and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, poems, and arguably the oldest surviving morality play, while supervising brilliant miniature Illuminations. About 100 years later, Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170 – c. 1230) became the most celebrated of the Middle High German lyric poets.
Ingeborg of Holstein (1396 – 14 October 1465), was Abbess of Vadstena Abbey 1447-1452 and 1457-1465. She was the daughter of Gerhard VI, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (d. 1404) and Catherine Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg. In 1408, she was placed in the convent by Queen Margaret I of Denmark by special consent of the Pope.
She is purchased by a slave trader who recognizes that she has hunska blood. She is brought to the capital of the Empire, where she attacks a noble named Raymel Tacsis. She is saved from execution by Abbess Glass of the Sweet Mercy Convent. Nona trains in the arts of combat and subterfuge at Sweet Mercy.
Giuliani governed the convent with obvious common sense and guided the novices with prudence. She would not allow them to read mystical books, requiring them instead to study books on Christian basics. In 1716, she was elected abbess. As a practical woman, she improved her sisters’ comfort by enlarging the convent rooms and having water piped inside.
Louise Adélaïde de Bourbon (5 October 1757 - 10 March 1824) was a French nun. She was the last Remiremont abbess and founded at the beginning of the Bourbon Restoration a religious community that became famous among French Catholics under the name of Bénédictines de la rue Monsieur. She constructed the Hôtel de Mademoiselle de Condé, named after her.
Relative to other Domesday settlements, Romsey had a large population and paid a considerable amount of tax. Along with Wilton Abbey nearby, Romsey Abbey became known as a place of learning in the High Middle Ages. In 1086, Matilda of Scotland was sent there to be educated by her aunt, Cristina, who was then the abbess.
Jouarre Abbey church Saint Balda of Jouarre was the third abbess at Jouarre Abbey in north-central France. She was a nun at Jourarre for many years, under her nieces Saint Theodichildis and Saint Agilberta, who were abbesses before her. Her nephew, St. Agilbert, was bishop of Paris. She might have been related to St, Sadalberga.
Cecily Bodenham, the last abbess, surrendered the convent to the commissioners of King Henry VIII on 25 March 1539 during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The site was granted to Sir William Herbert, afterwards Earl of Pembroke, who commenced the building of Wilton House, still the abode of his descendants. There are no remains of the ancient buildings.
Rein Abbey was founded in or shortly after 1226. It was built on a prominent elevation in an otherwise flat landscape on the ancestral estate of Duke Skule Bårdsson, possibly in fulfilment of a vow after his recovery from an illness. It was dedicated to Saint Andrew. The first abbess was Duke Skule's half-sister, Sigrid Bårdsdatter.
Built in the early Saxon style, it was likely a walled enclosure of simple wooden huts surrounding a church. Hartlepool was a double monastery. It was a joint-house of both monks and nuns, presided over from 640-649 by Hieu, the first female abbess to ever be put in charge of such an institution.Archaeologia Aeliana, xix, 47.
28 nuns still lived in the monastery in 1812. The tradition of Gutenzell Abbey became extinct with the death of the last nun in 1851, the last abbess, Maria Justina von Erolzheim, having already died in 1809. The premises were almost entirely demolished in 1864. The former monastery church is now part of the Upper Swabian Baroque Route.
A Feather on the Breath of God is an album of sacred vocal music written in the 12th century by the German abbess Hildegard of Bingen, and recorded by British vocal ensemble Gothic Voices with English soprano Emma Kirkby. It was released by the Hyperion Records label in April 1985. Hyperion Records Retrieved 11 June 2014.
She and her mister Mary were sent with one other to Paris to found another convent. Anne was able to contact Queen ??? Maria and she arranged for the three women to receive a pension that continued until the Queen's death in 1669. With the assistance of others Anne established the convent but she refused the position of abbess.
Saint Beuve (or Bove or Bova) and her brother Balderic (or Baudry) lived in the 7th century in France. According to Christian Settipani, their father was probably Sigobert the Lame, King of Cologne, rather than Sigebert I of Austrasia, as indicated by Flodoard. Together they founded the Abbey of Saint Pierre de Reims. Beuve was the first abbess.
284 On one such occasion Balderic became ill and died during a visit to Saint Pierre. Initially buried in the abbey, his remains were moved to Montfaucon. Beuve undertook the education of her niece Doda and welcomed her when she took the veil to escape a forced marriage. Upon Beuve's death, Doda succeeded her aunt as abbess.
Edgar died on 8 July 975 at Winchester, Hampshire. He was buried at Glastonbury Abbey.ODNB He left two sons, his successor Edward, who was probably his illegitimate son by Æthelflæd, daughter of ealdorman Ordmaer, and Æthelred, the younger, the child of his wife Ælfthryth. Edgar also had a possibly illegitimate daughter by Wulfthryth, who later became abbess of Wilton.
In 1566, Count Palatine Georg von Simmern dissolved the Cistercian convent and subjected it to secular jurisdiction. The nuns remained at the convent, however, living according to the dictates of their order, until the last abbess died in 1574. In 1599 there were nine estate complexes at Klosterkumbd. In 1673, the village passed to Electoral Palatinate.
Mother Thekla (Marina Sharfe) was born in Kislovodsk in 1918. She was abbess of the Monastery of the Assumption at Normanby near Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. The notable Ukrainian historian Mykhailo Hrushevskyi (1866-1934) died when on exile to Kislovodsk in 1934, under circumstances which remain mysterious and controversial. Hero of Soviet Labour, Zuhra Bayramkulova was born there.
First documentation of the church or oratory at the site, dates to 833, when the property was outside the city walls. Towards the 12th century the church was rebuilt and affiliated with a Vallombrosan Benedictine order monastery. It then became a convent for nuns. The Abbess Giovanna Sanvitale commissioned the choir from Marco Antonio Zucchi in 1512.
This is reflected in family names like Gruuthuse, of the Gruuthusemuseum in Bruges. In abbeys, the quality of beer was improved by adding hops. Hops were gradually used more often as brewers discovered they prevented the beer from souring. The German abbess Hildegard von Bingen provided a detailed description of the workings of hops in the 12th century.
According to Martin of Leibitz, she asked to be taken to a convent. She took her vows there, became a teacher and a leader of the convent school, and eventually the abbess. This story may or may not be true. Some historians say that if it is true, her time at the university was about 1407–1409.
This nun had not realized she was pregnant, and does not seem to know she has given birth. The Abbess had given orders that she be notified of all births, but Beaulieu requests that she not be notified immediately. The doctor needs to focus on care for the newborn. A different nun, Sister Zofia, takes responsibility for the child.
The Hitda Codex is an eleventh-century codex containing an evangeliary, a selection of passages from the Gospels, commissioned by Hitda, abbess of Meschede in about 1020. It is conserved in the Hessische Landesbibliothek, Darmstadt, Germany.Hessische Landesbibliothek, MS 1640. Hitda is depicted in the book's dedication miniature presenting the codex to the convent's patron, St Walburga.
Kunigunde of Bohemia (January 1265 – 27 November 1321) was the eldest daughter of Ottokar II of Bohemia and his second wife, Kunigunda of Slavonia. She was a member of the Přemyslid dynasty. She was Princess of Masovia by her marriage to Boleslaus II of Masovia and later became abbess of the St. George's Convent at Prague Castle.
The nuns of Mater Ecclesiae Abbey support themselves through their work in creating and repairing liturgical vestments and accessories, in writing icons and making translations from German and French spiritual books. Through their research they have developed a reputation for the quality of their restoration work with antique items. Additionally, Cànopi, the abbess, has become a noted spiritual writer.
She suffered from illnesses during her life, which prevented her from following the rule of life for the nuns. Isabelle refused to become abbess, which allowed her to retain her wealth and resources, so she could support them and continue to give to the poor. She kept a discipline of silence for most of her day.
The Abbey had its own seal in 1251. It had about ten nuns under an Abbess with a provost supplied from another Abbey. Initially the Abbey was under the Augustinian Köniz Abbey, until was absorbed by the Teutonic Knights in 1226 or 1235. After that the provost was appointed by a local committee or by the Bishop of Lausanne.
On hearing the news, Louis XIV pronounced during his dinner a thought for the great abbess. > He had preserved, wrote Saint-Simon, esteem and friendship which neither the > expulsion of Madame de Montespan, or extreme for Madame de Maintenon could > not dull. She was replaced as head of the abbey by her niece, Louise-Françoise, de Mortemart.
The abbey survived the Josephine reforms of the 1780s. On 30 January 1806, the Electorate of Baden declared that all monasteries, nunneries and other religious communities in the Breisgau were abolished and on 3 February Günterstal Abbey was formally seized.Dreher: Äbtissinnen p.47 The abbess and nuns received pensions from the state and left the abbey before October 25.
Beuckers dated this remodelling to the time of Abbess Sophia.Beuckers, Marsusschrein, p. 112. In this remodelling, the collars of the ends of the cross became pointless and the goldsmith responsible for the remodelling concealed them with spiral-shaped filigree wire, known as ' (beehives). This ornamental motif came into vogue in the reign of Henry II (r.
Schurman was attacked by her intellectual friends, including Huygens and Voetius. Her writing style became forthright and confident. When the Labadists had to leave Amsterdam, Schurman secured an invitation from her friend Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, who in 1667 had become abbess at the Lutheran Damenstift of Herford Abbey. The 50 Labadists lived there between 1670 and 1672.
She died before the end of the 9th century and was buried in a side chapel of the Andlau church. A century and a half later she was canonized by Pope Leo IX who was in Alsace, his homeland, and came to bless Andlau's new church built by the Abbess Mathilde, sister of Emperor Henry III.
Shropshire's county day is on 23 February, the feast day of St Milburga, abbess of Wenlock Priory. St Milburga was the daughter of Anglo-Saxon king Merewalh, who founded the abbey within his sub-kingdom of Magonsæte. The town adjoining the priory is now known as Much Wenlock, and lies within the boundaries of the modern county of Shropshire.
In 1640 Sister Maria Angela was considering the possibility of founding again. It was not until 9 June 1645, that she would be accompanied by four others to Murcia. On 29 June of the same year the monastery of the exaltation of the Holy Sacrament was opened. Maria Angela was again the master of novices and Abbess.
Accessed 1 February 2016.) is an obscure Anglo-Saxon abbess associated with Polesworth (Warwickshire) and Tamworth (Staffordshire) in Mercia. Her historical identity and floruit are uncertain. Some late sources make her a daughter of King Edward the Elder, while other sources claim she is the daughter of Egbert of Wessex. Her feast day is 15 July.
Agilbert died at some time after 10 March 673, on which date he witnessed Clotilde's foundation charter for the Abbey of Bruyères-le-Châtel, and probably between 679 and 690. He was buried at Jouarre Abbey where his sister Theodechildis was abbess. His fine sculpted sarcophagus can be seen there in the crypts, as can that of his sister.
Some nuns were brought to it from her childhood home of Trzebnica. Elisabeth and Przemysł had five children: # Constance of Greater Poland (1245/46 - 8 October 1281); married in 1260 Conrad, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal. # Euphrosyne of Greater Poland (1247/50 - 17/19 February 1298), Abbess of St. Clara in Trzebnica. # Anna of Greater Poland (1253 - aft.
In 761AD Offa, king of the Mercians, granted Sigeburh a toll-exemption which king Æthelbald had previously granted to Abbess Mildrith. Again in about 763 AD Eadberht II, king of Kent, granted the remission of toll on two ships at Sarre and on a third at Fordwich.Charters of the St Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury, and Minster-in- Thanet, ed.
When discussing Wulfhere, Bede mentions neither she nor her daughter Wærburh. However, her name is mentioned as an abbess in a (copy of a) charter of King Wihtred of Kent, dated 699, along with three other abbesses present at the occasion when the charter was issued: "Irminburga, Aeaba et Nerienda".Sawyer no. 20 Her feast day is 13 February.
It was also the birthplace of Saint Hildegard von Bingen, an important polymath, abbess, mystic and musician, one of the most influential medieval composers and one of the earliest Western composers whose music is widely preserved and performed. Bingen am Rhein was also the birthplace of the celebrated poet Stefan George, along with many other influential figures.
Tomb of Margrave Gero In July 961, Emperor Otto I, a cousin of Abbess Hathui, granted Gernrode immunity and placed the abbey under imperial protection.T. Sickel, ed., Die Urkunden Konrad I., Heinrich I. und Otto I. (Hannover, 1879–1884), no. 229 The abbey was also granted the right of free election of its abbesses and advocates.
The canonesses of Gernrode came primarily from the geographical area between Plettenberg in modern North Rhine-Westphalia, and Löbau in eastern Saxony.Schulze: Das Stift Gernrode, pp. 55–56. Together, the nuns and canonesses of Gernrode and Frose made up the convent. The members of the convent jointly elected the abbess, in the presence of the advocate.
1370 (18 May 1000). The diploma records that Oedingen, which was located in the district of Lochtrop, in the county of Werl, had been founded by Gerberga, with the permission of her son, Herman II of Werl. In 1042 Gerberga's granddaughter, also called Gerberga (she was the daughter of Herman II of Werl), became abbess of Oedingen.
Mother Maria Tekla Famiglietti, O.Ss.S. (December 23, 1936 – March 3, 2020), was the Abbess General of the Order of the Most Holy Savior, commonly called the Bridgettine Sisters, founded by the Saint Elizabeth Hesselblad, O.Ss.S, (the so-called Roman branch of the Bridgettine Order). On October 28, 2016, Famiglietti retired and was replaced by Fabia Kattakayam.
Osburh (or Osburga) was an Anglo-Saxon saint who rested at Coventry Cathedral.Blair, "Handlist", p. 548 Although there is some tradition holding her to be an early 11th-century abbess of Coventry Abbey, it is suspected that her cult predates the Viking Age. A 14th-century note in MS Bodley 438 mentions an early nunnery at Coventry.
She documented her whole journey almost day by day to leave her account for both her original convent back in Madrid and the new one in Lima. One month before her death, she stepped down from her position and her co-founder, María Gertrudis was elected abbess. She passed away August 14, 1716 at the age of fifty-six.
Odilo was descended from an illustrious noble family of Auvergne (central France). The son of Berald de Mercoeur and Gerberga, his widowed mother became a nun at the convent of St. John in Autun after his father's death. Odilo had eight brothers and two sisters. One of his sisters married and the other became an abbess.
Master Jiyu- Kennett served twenty-six years as Abbess and spiritual director of Shasta Abbey, ordaining and teaching monks and lay people. She founded Throssel Hole Buddhist Abbey in England in 1972. She also founded the OBC to establish a framework within which the temples she founded could come together.About: Shasta Abbey The second Abbot was Rev.
They got wood and straw and were allowed to go hunting and angling. This was enough for them. In 1636 in time of the thirty years' war, the church and the citizens' houses were burned down by the Swedish troops. The chronicle of Holzen is telling about abbess Agnes von Neuegg who found only 6 survivors in Heretsried.
Therefore his descendants all had Jewish blood. He had 1 legitimate son born in 1500: Juan III Francisco Coloma: 3rd Lord of Alfajarin, 2nd Lord of Elda, Salinas and Petrer. His illegitimate daughter became abbess of the monastery of Poor Clares in Zaragozza, where he is buried in the monasterymonasterio de Jerusalén en Zaragoza that he founded.
Following Boleslaus' death, Yolanda and Kinga, along with one of Yolanda's daughters, Anna, retired to the Poor Clare monastery that Kinga had founded in Sandez. Forced to relocate due to armed conflict in the region, Yolanda founded a new monastery in Gniezno. She was persuaded to become abbess of the community of nuns shortly before her death.
The original cast included Connie Fisher as Maria, Michael Praed as Captain von Trapp and Margaret Preece as the Mother Abbess. Kirsty Malpass was the alternate Maria.The Sound of Music UK Tour , Thesoundofmusictour.com, Retrieved May 18, 2009 Jason Donovan assumed the role of Captain Von Trapp, and Verity Rushworth took over as Maria, in early 2011.
Isabelle never joined the community herself, but did live there in a room separate from the nuns' cells. Isabelle refused to become abbess, which allowed her to retain her wealth and resources, so she could support her abbey and continue to give to the poor. She kept a discipline of silence for most of her day.
Disliked by many of the other nuns, when she was younger she had her hand rejected by a gentleman from Naples. After apparently being back in high spirits, the man was later found missing. Vittoria Bracciano (The Abbess) is the title character of the novel. From the outset she is seen as elevated from the rest of the sisterhood.
In 1556, the estates and assets of the abbey were confiscated, but the remaining members of the monastic community were allowed a royal pension. They were also given donations by private sympathizers, such as Anna Hogenskild. The last recognized Abbess, Birgitta Knutsdotter, died in 1577. By then, there were only four nuns and one monk left.
The story opens with the heroine, who is so greedy for parsley that her mother steals it for her. As a result, she is called Parsley. The parsley comes from the garden of a neighboring convent run by an abbess. The girl is seen by three princes, and because of her beauty, they quarrel over her.
Vekenega (Zadar - Zadar, September 27, 1111) was a Croatian Benedictine nun from the House of Madi. She was the daughter of Čika and the abbess of the Benedictine monastery of St. Maria in Zadar from 1072. She is also known for the richly illuminated evangelistary, which she commissioned in the scriptorium of the monastery of st.Krševan in 1096.
The nuns now followed Protestant teaching and left the order, creating a Lutheran Stift for women (Damenstift). Abbess Magdalena of Irmtraut had a new Äbtissinenhaus (abbess's house) built by Ludwig von Weilburg from 1589. The premises were destroyed in 1634 during the Thirty Years' War. After the war, the remaining buildings were used as an estate.
Anna of Greater Poland (; b. 1253 – d. aft. 26 June 1295), was a Greater Poland princess member of the House of Piast and abbess at Owińska. She was the third daughter (twin with Euphemia) of Przemysł I, Duke of Greater Poland and Poznań, by his wife Elisabeth, daughter of Henry II the Pious, Duke of Wrocław.
During the 1290s (certainly before 1298),In 1298, certain Dobrochna is named as abbess of the monastery in Owińska. If Anna would be her successor, her rule was to be placed during the years 1298–1300, who is considered by modern historians as unlikely. K. Jasiński, Genealogia Piastów wielkopolskich. Potomstwo Władysława Odonica, [in:] Kronika Miasta Poznania, vol.
II, 1995, p. 51. she served as an abbess in her community. It's unknown the exact date of Anna's death. Certainly she died after the coronation of his brother Przemysł II as King of Poland on 26 June 1295, because the Obituary of Lubiąż mentions Anna and her sister Eufrozynie as the sisters of the Polish King.
After the death of her husband in 1288, Gryfina's nephew Wenceslaus II of Bohemia claimed Poland on the basis of his aunt's marriage. Gryfina retired to the monastery of the Poor Clares in Stary Sącz. The prioress there was her mother's sister, Kinga, the widow of Bolesław V the Chaste. After Kinga's death, Gryfina became abbess.
Schetz de Grobbendonck was a son of Anthonie II Schetz and his second wife Maria van Malsen, lady of Tilburg. After graduating licentiate of civil and canon law, he was appointed in 1647 to a canonry of Tournai Cathedral. His older sister was abbess of La Cambre. He went on to serve as archdeacon and vicar general of Tournai.
Constance Shacklock OBE (1913–1999) was an English contralto. After more than a decade of roles with the Covent Garden Opera Company, with other companies and on the concert stage, Shacklock performed for six years in The Sound of Music in London as the Mother Abbess. She taught singing at the Royal Academy of Music from 1968 to 1978.
It is not known when she last saw Maria, as the Von Trapp family left Austria and immigrated to the United States. Upon Maria's arrival in the United States, she published her autobiography in 1949, which sparked widespread interest in her story. In the book, she writes about the Mother Abbess and her time at Nonnberg.
In 1240 Cardinal Otto Candidus, the legate to the Apostolic See of Pope Gregory IX, visited the abbey and confirmed a charter of 1191, the first entered in the Glastonbury chartulary. Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots was imprisoned here from October 1312 to March 1313. By 1340, the steward of the abbess swore in the town's mayor.
She became the first abbess and was later joined by Kyneswide and Tibba. Kyneswide succeeded Kyneburga as abbess and she was later succeeded by Tibba. She was buried in her church, but the remains of Kyneburga and Kyneswide were translated, before 972,The account of the translation is from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, dated 972: "Abbot Aelfsi took up St Kyneburgh (with her sister and a female kinswoman) who lay at Castor and brought them to Burh and offered them all to St Peter in one day". to Peterborough Abbey, now Peterborough Cathedral. Kyneburga had been one of the signatories, together with her brother Wulfhere, of the founding charter of Burh Abbey, dated 664, per William Dugdale's Monasticon.Dugdale's Monasticon: Peterborough, vol 1, p.377, no.2, prints the charter of 664.
39; Rot. Parl. 9 Hen V, p.1,m.7 The reason for the move was to gain more space, as is made clear from the letters patent: > “The said Abbess and Convent had presented their humble petition setting > forth that their aforesaid monastery was so small and confined in its > dimensions that the numerous persons therein ... were not only > incommodiously but dangerously situated...that in consequence thereof the > said abbess and convent had chosen out a spot in the neighbourhood of their > said priory within the said lordship of Isleworth, more meet healthful and > salubrious for them to inhabit”. The danger of the situation referred to may have been due to proximity to the river, or possibly even spiritual danger to the inmates due to a too close intermingling of the sexes.
During the reign of Ramiro III Rodrigo witnessed the royal restoration of the diocese of Simancas in 974 and the testament of Rosendo in 977, which the king also witnessed. The absence of Rodrigo from court for a total of six years during the reigns of Sancho I and Ramiro III, and his comparatively frequent recurrence in the diplomas of Ordoño III, does not support the hypothesis that he was a creature of the former. The rivalry between the two families had more to do with a dispute between Gonzalo's mother, Mummadomna, abbess of Guimarães, and a relative of Rodrigo's, Guntroda, abbess of Pazóo. It may have been in 966 or 967, during the regency of Elvira Ramírez, that Rodrigo was defeated by Gonzalo at the Battle of Aguiuncias.
Crypt and sarcophagi Capital of the crypt Charlotte of Bourbon The Merovingian foundation of Abbess Theodochilde or Telchilde, was founded traditionally in 630, inspired by the visit of St. Columban, the travelling Irish monk who inspired monastic institution-building in the early seventh century. As part of its Celtic heritage, Jouarre was established as a "double community," i.e., a community of monks as well as nuns, both under the rule of the abbess, who in 1225 was granted immunity from interference by the bishop of Meaux, answering only to the pope. The Merovingian (pre-Romanesque) crypt beneath the Romanesque abbey church contains a number of burials in sarcophagi, notably that of Theodochilde's brother, Agilbert (died 680), carved with a tableau of the Last Judgment and Christ in Majesty, highlights of pre-Romanesque sculpture.
François, Count of Gruyère, donated land for the convent, which would begin construction in 1474 after purchasing additional land from André Baudichon and Claude Granger. The abbess at the time of Jeanne's writing was Louise Rambo, assisted by vicaress Pernette de Montluel, who would succeed Rambo after her death in 1538. Jeanne was elected abbess in 1548 after their move to the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Annecy in 1535 and passed the position to Claude de Pierrefleur after her death in 1561. Twenty- four nuns lived in the convent at the time Jeanne wrote The Short Chronicle, likely with eight discreets- as prescribed by the order of Saint Clare- portresses, a bursar, cooks, a nurse, lay sisters, tertiary sisters, and possibly a laundress, a sacristan, and a gardener.
The Imperial Abbey of Buchau (German: Reichsstift Buchau) was initially a monastery of canonesses regular, and later a collegiate foundation, in Buchau (now Bad Buchau) in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The abbey was a self-ruling Imperial Estate and its abbess had seat and vote at the Imperial Diet. According to tradition, the monastery was founded around 770 on an island in the Federsee by the Frankish Count Warin and his wife Adelindis (still commemorated in the local Adelindisfest). The abbey was put on a secure financial footing by Louis the Pious, who in 819 granted the nuns property in the Saulgau and in Mengen. In 857, Louis the German declared it a private religious house of the Carolingian Imperial family and appointed as abbess his daughter Irmingard (died 16 July 866).
Josina Walburgis van Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1615-1683) was sovereign Princess Abbess of Thorn Abbey from 1631 until 1632. She was born to count Johann Dietrich von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rochefort (1585-1644) and Josina de la Marck (1583-1626) and was placed in the abbey by her father. Thorn had been ruled by her two maternal aunts in succession (Anna von der Marck and Josina II von der Marck) and she was elected Princess abbess by the will of her father in 1631. The following year, she was the subject of a great scandal when she secretly married count Herman Frederik van den Bergh (1605-1669) and was deposed from her office: she was locked up by her father in another convent, but managed to escape and join her spouse in 1636.
As princess-abbess, Anna II controlled nine churches, two male monasteries and a hospital. During her reign, she established a consistory and set the salaries for school and church officials. She made all priests swear to the Augsburg Confession. She turned a Franciscan monastery into a school for both male and female children, although the order raised objections to her decision.
She is credited with establishing a religious site later incorporated into Christ Church in Oxford – Frithuswith was the first abbess of this Oxford double monastery. Frithuswith was the daughter of a Mercian sub-king named Dida of Eynsham, whose lands occupied western Oxfordshire and the upper reaches of the River Thames. Dida is known to have endowed churches in Bampton and Oxford.
Eusebia was sent to Hamay-les-Marchiennes. This is consistent with a monastic system controlled by the ruling, landholding class that was closely linked to the Merovingian monarchy. At her death, Gerberte named Eusebia her successor as abbess. Eusebia was but twelve years old, and her mother considering her too young for such responsibility, placed Hamay under the direction of Marchiennes.
Seaxburh, also Saint Sexburga of Ely (died about 699) was a Queen as well as an abbess, and is a saint of the Christian Church. She was married to King Eorcenberht of Kent. After her husband's death in 664, Seaxburh remained in Kent to bring up her children. She acted as regent until her young son Ecgberht came of age.
In 1078, Sancha, acting on behalf of Santa Cruz, exchanged some land with the monastery of Leire. In 1079, she made a similar exchange of properties with San Juan de la Peña, this time accompanied by the abbess of Santa Cruz, Mindonia. She also administered the abbey of San Pedro de Siresa. In 1080, she witnessed the will of Count Sancho Galíndez.
He appointed Hersende of Champagne, kinswoman to the Duke of Brittany as abbess, and Petronilla, baroness of Chemille, as coadjutress. Fontrevault followed the Rule of St. Benedict.Butler, Alban. "B. Robert of Arbrissel", The Lives of the Saints, Vol II, 1866 Robert's legend has long alluded to the presence of converted prostitutes and there is indeed considerable contemporary evidence for this assertion.
Lamboy's sister, Anne Catherine (1609-1675), was Abbess of Herkenrode Abbey, from 1653 until her death. He married Sybilla von Boyneburg, (died 1687), daughter of Johann von Bemmelburg zu Boyneburgk, governor of Innsbruck. They had four daughters and a son, Johann de Lamboy (died 1669). Together with Cardinal von Harrach, Archbishop of Prague, Sybilla helped establish an Ursuline convent in Prague.
The abbey gradually fell under the influence of the Hennebergs. Under Abbess Anna von Henneberg, who died in about 1363 and whose epitaph and funerary monument have been preserved, it saw a brief flourishing. The 14th century however also saw a decline. The number of nuns had risen beyond the economic limits of the nunnery and had to be restricted to 50.
Anne Charlotte of Lorraine (17 May 1714 - 7 November 1773) was the Abbess of Remiremont and Mons. She was the thirteenth of fifteen children of Leopold, Duke of Lorraine, and his spouse Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans. Her mother was the niece of Louis XIV of France and sister of Philippe II, Duke of Orléans and Regent of France during the minority of Louis XV.
In the introduction to his Latin Chronicle Æthelweard claims to descend from King Æthelred,Antonia Gransden, Historical Writing in England: c. 500 to c. 1307, 1993, p. 37. while in Book IV he calls Æthelred his atavus, then uses the same term to describe the relationship between the chronicle's recipient, Mathilde, Abbess of Essen, and her great-great-grandfather, King Alfred.
Saint Scholastica is the patron saint of Benedictine nuns, education, and convulsive children, and is invoked against storms and rain. Her feast is celebrated on February 10. Saint Scholastica's Day bears special importance in the Benedictine monastic calendar. In iconography, Saint Scholastica is often represented as an abbess, in Benedictine habit and holding the Rule of Saint Benedict, a crucifix or a dove.
Matilda (December 955 – 999), also known as Mathilda and Mathilde, was a German regent, and the first Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg. She served as regent of Germany for her brother during his absence in 967, and as regent during the minority of her nephew from 984. She was the daughter of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, and his second wife, Adelaide of Italy.
Pampinea-- trying to escape from Gerbino's grasp--ran to the convent for shelter. There she witnesses Lorenzo, whom she'd long had feelings for, having sex with the nuns and get jealous. She blindfolds Lorenzo and kisses him passionately out of love. But then, out of jealousy, she informs the convent's abbess of his deception, that he is actually neither deaf nor dumb.
This change is first mentioned in 1167, but it happened sometime before this date. The first abbess known by name is Adelheid, attested between 1211 and 1233. The Swabian War, which was an attempt by the Habsburgs to assert control over the Grisons and key alpine passes, started at the convent.Riezler, Sigmund: Die Grafen von Fürstenberg im Schweizerkriege 1499; Tübingen 1883.
A contemporary manuscript from Shaftesbury containing a list of miracles of the Virgin Mary includes a story about a nun named Eulalia who is told by the Virgin to say her 'Ave Maria' more slowly. This Eulalia may be the same as the abbess Eulalia, but it is not known for certain.Studies in the Early History of Shaftesbury Abbey. ed. by Laurence Keen.
L'abbaye de Honcourt, Société d'histoire du val de Villé,1976, pp. 26–29 The transfer was confirmed by Pope Paul V in 1616. In 1782 the abbess of Andlau ordered the demolition of Honcourt, as its upkeep had become too expensive, and nothing now remains. The consequent architectural loss to the region was great, as the buildings were of high interest.
After Arnold's death in 1156 his sister Hadwig of Wied turned the buildings into a monastery for Benedictine nuns. Hadwig was already abbess of Gerresheim and Essen Abbey and she now also became head of the Schwarzrheindorf congregation. Two of her sisters joined as well. Later, the monastery became a stift, a collegial body for female canons of noble origin.
In 2009 in Australia four women received bhikkhuni ordination as Theravada nuns, the first time such ordination had occurred in Australia. It was performed in Perth, Australia, on 22 October 2009 at Bodhinyana Monastery. Abbess Vayama together with Venerables Nirodha, Seri, and Hasapanna were ordained as Bhikkhunis by a dual Sangha act of Bhikkhus and Bhikkhunis in full accordance with the Pali Vinaya.
Peter of Juilly (died 1136) was a Benedictine monk and renowned preacher. Born in England, he joined Molesme Abbey, a Benedictine monastery at Molesme in Burgundy. There he became acquainted with Saint Stephen Harding. He was later the confessor for the nuns of the Priory of Jully-les-Nonnains, under the then abbess Blessed Humbeline, sister of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux.
Her social status is sometimes given as "Irish princess", and thus she would have been a valuable bride. She is said variously to have lived as an anchorite or to have served as the first abbess of nuns on a small island off the coast of England.Saint Begnet. Begnet may not have come from Dalkey, despite the genealogical note on her origin.
His letters to and from Louis XIV concerning the education of the Dauphin were later collected and published in Lettres sur l'éducation du dauphin; suivies de Lettres au maréchal de Belle- fonds et au roi. Introd. et notes de E. Levesque. The Rue de Bellefond in Paris is named after his daughter Marie-Éléonore, Abbess of nearby Montmartre Abbey, demolished in 1794.
Edmund Tudor had been educated by Catherine de la Pole, the Abbess of Barking, who brought him to Henry VI's attention. Upon attaining adulthood, Edmund joined Henry VI at court. In 1449 Henry VI knighted him and then circa 1452 summoned Edmund to parliament as the Earl of Richmond. He had one son, Henry VII who was born posthumously circa 1456.
Angadrisma (Angadrême, Angadresima, Angadreme, Angradesma, Andragasyna) (d. ca. 695) was a seventh-century abbess and saint, daughter of Robert I, Bishop of Tours. A cousin to Lambert, Bishop of Lyon, she was educated at Thérouanne by Lambert and Saint Audomare (Omer). Although she wished to become a nun, she was promised in an arranged marriage to Saint Ansbert of Chaussy.
Tradition states that Angadrisma, wishing for a way out, prayed fervently and was stricken with leprosy. She was cured when she was allowed to become a nun and received the veil from Saint Ouen, archbishop of Rouen. She became abbess of the Benedictine convent of Oroër-des-Vierges, near Beauvais. Angadrisma is portrayed in art with her face pitted by leprous skin.
Women's school and abbey house. On the right is the stone wall. (1899) Modern appearance of the Vologda Parochial's Women's School The idea for the school came from the Reverend Christopher on November 7, 1862. The orphanage came into being in 1869, when the abbess Sevastiana took in 10 girls, mostly orphans of the clergy, with the blessings of the Metropolitan Palladius.
Dhammananda Bhikkhuni (; ), was born Chatsumarn Kabilsingh (; ) or Chatsumarn Kabilsingh Shatsena (; ; 6 October 1944) is a Thai bhikkhuni ("Buddhist nun"). On 28 February 2003, Kabilsingh received full monastic ordination as a bhikkhuni of the Theravada tradition in Sri Lanka.archive.org: สุวิดา แสงสีหนาท, นักบวชสตรีไทยในพระพุทธศาสนา พลังขับเคลื่อนคุณธรรมสู่สังคม, ศูนย์ส่งเสริมและพัฒนาพลังแผ่นดินเชิงคุณธรรม, 1999, page 45-6 She is Abbess of Songdhammakalyani Monastery, the only temple in Thailand where there are bhikkhunis.
95 online at books.google.com Edith was educated by the nuns of Wilton Abbey, where her mother had become abbess. Standing not far from a royal residence at Wilton, as part of its devotional work the Abbey functioned as the contemporary equivalent of a boarding school for young ladies, as did many abbeys at the time.Kate Pratt, St Edith at bishopwilton.
In the matronaeum are exhibited work by the Pistoiese sculptor Andrea Lippi. Of historical interest is that a newly appointed bishop to Pistoia, arriving to town via Porta Lucchese, in a ceremony in this church, would have a mystical marriage to the abbess of the Benedictine convent, and then move to the Cathedral to take his post.F. Tolomei, page 59-60.
Near the end of his own life, Frank Sanborn described Mrs. Emerson as "a stately, devoted, independent person", with "the air... of a lady abbess, relieved of the care of her cloister, and given up to her garden, her reforms, and her unceasing hospitalities."Sanborn, F.B. Recollections of Seventy Years, Vol. 2, Boston, Richard G. Badger, the Gorham Press, 1909, p. 482.
Around this time, between May and July, the queen mother died and her role was taken up by Louis's older sister, the abbess Constance. From late June through July Louis was with the army besieging Catania. By 22 July Louis had returned to Lentini. In September and October he was at Castrogiovanni, in November at Agira and in December at Messina.
Esteban and Manuel are twins who were left at the Convent of Santa María Rosa de las Rosas as infants. The Abbess of the convent, Madre María del Pilar, developed a fondness for them as they grew up. When they became older, they decided to be scribes. They are so close that they have developed a secret language that only they understand.
Restoration work in 2002 re-established the original bricked wall. Parrocchia di Mazzorbo Chiesa di Santa Caterina di Mazzorbo, Conoscere Venezia, La chiesa di Santa Caterina Its earliest mention is in the acts of a parish synod convened by the bishop of Torcello in 1374. The oldest archival document is a 1398 pledge of loyalty to the bishop of Torcello by the abbess.
Viriditas (Latin, literally "greenness," formerly translated as "viridity"Constant Mews, in Newman, 211, note 24.) is a word meaning vitality, fecundity, lushness, verdure, or growth. It is particularly associated with abbess Hildegard von Bingen, who used it to refer to or symbolize spiritual and physical health, often as a reflection of the Divine Word or as an aspect of the divine nature.
It was in the Hundred of Ongar. At the Dissolution, Henry VIII sold the Barking Abbey's estate to Robert Chertsey. In 1882 Abbess Roding was in the Ongar Union--poor relief provision set up under the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 --and part of the Rural Deanery of Ongar. The registers of the church of St Edmund date to 1560.
The acclaimed biography of the eldest son of William the Conqueror, whose failure to secure the kingdom of England has overshadowed his role in capturing Jerusalem during the First Crusade. and was educated by the abbess Matilda.Churches and Churchmen in Medieval Europe by C. N. L. BrookeThe history of Normandy and of England till 1101, Volume 3 by Francis Palgrave. Page 526.
Margaretta then brings Maria to the Mother Abbess. When she learns that Maria has stayed in seclusion to avoid her feelings for the Captain, she encourages her to return to the villa to look for her life. After Maria returns to the villa, she learns about the Captain's engagement to the Baroness and agrees to stay until they find a replacement governess.
In 1860 the Grand Duchy of Tuscany was annexed into the Kingdom of Sardinia. After the annexation her family moved to Salzburg. In 1868 her father married Princess Alice of Bourbon-Parma. In 1881 Maria Antonietta was appointed by Franz Joseph I of Austria to serve as the Princess-Abbess of the Imperial and Royal Theresian Institution of Noble Ladies in Hradčany.
Sibylla was the daughter of her nephew. Ioveta and her sisters were very close. When Melisende lay dying in 1161, Ioveta and Hodierna were at her side (Alice had probably died sometime earlier). After this Ioveta disappears from history; the date of her own death is unknown, but she was dead by 1178, when another abbess appears at the Convent of St. Lazarus.
She entered the Port-Royal-des-Champs in 1641 and taken her vows on 25 January 1644. Becoming sub-prior in 1653, she and her four sisters heavily opposed the formulary. Arrested in August 1664, she was held at the convent of the Annonciades until 1665. Refused the sacraments until the Clementine peace in 1669, she was made abbess in 1678.
162-63, 170. Wishing to avoid the many noble visitors, she caused herself to be enclosed at Campsey. Her daughter Elizabeth died in 1363. Lionel of Antwerp (by papal petition of John, King of France) thereupon refounded Bruisyard as a monastery for 13 or more nuns minoresses of St Clare, to be brought from Denny Abbey and elsewhere, under an abbess.
Their eldest son, François, had been born before the marriage but he was recognised as legitimate in 1694. The couple had six children in all, two of which would have progeny. His eldest daughter Marie Angélique married the Portuguese Duke of Cadaval and died in childbirth. His other daughter Marie Anne was the Abbess of Montmartre from 1685 till her death.
Edburga was the only daughter of King Centwine and Queen Engyth of Wessex. According to Stephen of Ripon, Engyth was a sister of Queen Iurminburh, second wife of King Ecgfrith of Northumbria. Centwine was not a Christian, but towards the end of his reign, converted and became a monk. Edburga was a friend and student of Saint Mildrith, abbess of Minster-in- Thanet.
Together they had three children, one of whom did not survive into adulthood. When her husband died, Hildegund took a pilgrimage to Rome, accompanied by her daughter, Hedwig. Upon their return to Germany in 1178, despite the opposition of her family, she took vows as a nun of the Premonstratensian Order. She converted her castle into a monastery, serving as its first abbess.
Elisabeth was the daughter of Count Johann of Nassau-Hadamar and the Countess Elisabeth of Waldeck, daughter of Count Henry IV of Waldeck. The year of her birth is unknown. She was the eighth of ten children. Because of her aristocratic origin, she had the possibility to join the chapter of nuns in Essen. In 1370 she was elected there as abbess.
Both of these saints were very important to the Ottonian dynasty to which Mathilde belonged: Innocent was patron saint of the oldest Ottonian abbey, Gandersheim and Otto I, Abbess Mathilde's grandfather, attributed his success in the Battle of Lechfeld (955) to Lawrence. The relic packets and cedulae are now stored in the Cathedral treasury chamber separately under inventory numbers MK1 to MK4.
On 15 October 1726 Francisca Christina was elected abbess in Essen. Her election in Essen was also significantly influenced by outside influences. Küppers- BraunFrauen des Hohen Adels, p. 155 ff has established that in this election the interests of several counts, in particular the Counts of Manderscheid- Blankenheim and the Count of Salm-Reifferscheid collided with the interests of the princely houses.
Abbé Jacques Testu de Belval (c. 1626, Paris – June 1706) was a French ecclesiastic and poet. Best known for his light poetry, he was also a preacher, translator and king's almoner. He was linked with Madame de Sévigné, Madame de Coulanges, Madame de Brancas, Madame de Schomberg, Madame de La Fayette and Marie-Madeleine de Rochechouart, abbess of Fontevrault Abbey.
Gabrielle de Rochechouart, queen of abbesses Marie-Madeleine Gabrielle Adélaïde de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1645 – 15 August 1704) was a French nun from the House of Rochechouart. The abbess of Fontevraud Abbey, she was an influential figure in the 17th century French intellectual community. She was the daughter of Gabriel de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart, and thus sister to Madame de Montespan.
The nuns decided to close down the monastery and disperse, this taking place on 31 October as announced on the monastery website. The two infirm nuns were remaining in care at Oulton Abbey, two were transferring to Stanbrook Abbey and the abbess was remaining on site for a year. No announcement was made as regards the future of the monastery buildings.
In May 1538, the King's attorney took out a writ of Praemunire against Stokesley and, as accessories with him, against the Abbess Agnes Jordan and the Confessor-General of Syon Abbey. Stokesley acknowledged his guilt, implored Thomas Cromwell's intercession, and threw himself on the King's mercy. He obtained the King's pardon, for it was not the Bishop but Syon that Cromwell aimed at.
The chapter was a room in which, every day, the nuns would take confession from the abbess or her deputy, and listen to a sermon of Saint Benedict, to whom the room was dedicated. The Mother Superior would then discuss the sermon. The nuns could also discuss it, together with matters concerning the community: sales and purchases, contracts, and so on.
They were raised at Petworth by her late husband's brother, Henry Percy who had succeeded as the 8th Earl of Northumberland. He was married to Katherine Neville, the eldest daughter of her half-sister, Lucy. Her youngest daughter, Mary who had accompanied her to the Continent, became the abbess of the Benedictine convent in Brussels which she had herself founded.
The effect of this was that the nunnery was expropriated by the state without any compensation to the church. On 17 August 1920, the abbey was dissolved, although the remaining conventuals were allowed the right to live there for life. The last abbess died in 1981. The abbey church was renovated both outside and, later, inside from 1997 to 2002.
When her mother presented the child to the abbess, Euphrasia took up an image of Christ and kissed it, saying, "By vow I consecrate myself to Christ." Her mother replied, "Lord Jesus Christ, receive this child under your special protection. You alone doth she love and seek: to you doth she recommend herself." Soon after, Euphrasia's mother became ill and died.
However, the bombings during World War II accidentally reopened the rift, unleashing the evil entity once more. Burke identifies the demon as Valak and discovers the Abbess has been dead all along. Frenchie heads back to the abbey to help Irene and Burke. Irene is attacked by Valak and joins the nuns in desperate prayer to ward off the demon.
The building was restored by Pope Clement XI (1700–1721). Since then, only minor changes have been made to the exterior. It is possible to visit the rooms of St Bridget and her daughter St Catherine, first abbess of the Bridgettine Sisters. The rooms contain relics of the two saints, and are decorated with paintings from the lives of the saints.
An engraving of Maria Angela Astorch made in the 18th century In 1655 Maria Angela stopped writing with the thought of her upcoming death. She had begun losing mental faculties in 1660, regressing to a childlike state. In 1661, she resigned from the position of Abbess. On 21 November 1665, she suffered a hemiplegia, never fully regaining her mental faculties.
Gabriel was made on a minuscule budget, even by Australian standards. Director Shane Abbess described the budget as "the catering budget on a Hollywood film." The film was shot for roughly . However, everyone involved in the production worked on deferred payment, meaning that the actual cost of the film runs "well into the millions" once deferrals have been taken into account.
10 May 1466), Abbess of Trebnitz (1456). In his will, Konrad V leave the town of Wołów to his wife as her dower, who was ruled by her until her own death. His sons were excluded from the government by their uncle Konrad VII, who maintained his rule until 1450, when they finally deposed him and assumed the full control over the Duchy.
San Angelo, Texas, credits the abbess as a pioneering force behind the establishment of early Texas missions.Flippin, Perry. "Pageant to portray nun's paranormal story," GoSanAngelo, July 16, 2007 Jumano Native Americans reminisce about her role in their survival, and her possible connection to the legend of Texas's state flower, the bluebonnet."Jumanos Still Revere Lady in Blue," Tradicion Revista, December 2008, Vol.
Son of a Neustrian noble named Betto, he was a first cousin of Audoin and related to the Faronids and Agilolfings,Le Jan, pp. 382, notes 6, 388, & 390–391, table 48. Le Jan shows that Agilbert's first cousins included Saints Audoin and Dado, the future Bishop Ebregisil of Meaux, and Agilberta, the second abbess of Jouarre. and less certainly to the Merovingians.Fouracre.
Mathilde, under whom Essen Abbey had enjoyed a great period of prosperity, died at Essen on 5 November 1011. In the Annals of Quedlinburg Abbey, a foundation of Mathilde's grandfather Otto the Great it is stated: : Abstulit [sc. mors] et de regali stemmate gemmam Machtildam abbatissam, Ludolfi filiam. : ([death] took Abbess Mathilde, Luidolf's daughter, the gem of the royal line).
Accessed 11 December 2016. Maria de Taye, abbess of Forest Abbey outside Brussels, commissioned paintings from him for the abbey church.P. Leroy, "Domein van de abdij van Vorst", in Doorheen de nationale geschiedenis (State Archives in Belgium, Brussels, 1980), p. 207. A number of his portraits were engraved by Richard Collin and were reproduced in Jean François Foppens, Bibliotheca belgica (2 vols.
Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, book 3.27 Another brother, Aldwin, was abbot at Partney, and a sister, Æthelhild, was an abbess. Bede tells of her visiting Queen Osthryth at Bardney Abbey in about 697. She was still alive when Bede was writing in the 720s.Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People, book 3.11 Æthelwine probably died around 700.
Some years later, he decided to invite some nuns to come from England to establish themselves in various parts of the country. To this end he sent a letter to Abbess Tetta requesting that she send Leoba and others to assist with his mission of spreading Christianity in Germany.Ellsberg, Robert. Blessed Among Us: Day by Day with Saintly Witnesses, Liturgical Press, 2016, p.
Jakujo Gary McNabb received shiho in 1998. Furyu Nancy Schroeder received shiho 1999. She was installed as the abiding abbess of Green Gulch Farm Zen Center and has served from 2014 to the present. Myo Denis Lahey received shiho in 1999 and became head teacher of the Hartford Street Zen Center, Issan-ji, in San Francisco. In 2000 Taigen Dan Leighton received shiho.
In 2005 Kiku Christina Lehnherr received shiho from Tenshin Roshi and served as San Francisco Zen Center's City Center abbess from 2012 to 2014. Taiyo Lipscomb received shiho in 2009, and in 2010, Kōkyō Henkel received shiho. He is currently Head Teacher at Santa Cruz Zen Center.Gentaku Susan O'Connell received shiho June 2017, Korin Nyuyu Charlie Pokorny received shiho in 2018.
In 1271, the twelve-years-old Sophie married with Konrad I, Duke of Glogów, an almost forty-years-old widower. They had no children. After Konrad I's death in 1274, Sophie returned to her homeland and became a nun in the monastery of St. Clara in Weissenfels, where she later was elected Abbess. Sophie held this post until her death.
The family legend first appeared in print in a 1934 article on Harbour Grace by William A. Munn.Hiscock 2002 p.198; It states that Sheila lived in the early 17th century and was from the recently dispossessed Gaelic nobility in Connacht. Catholic education being illegal in Ireland, she was sent to France to a convent school where her aunt was abbess.
The abbey was dissolved on 18 March 1803 during the Bavarian secularization program. At that time there were 29 nuns and 21 lay sisters led by the abbess Amanda Donaubauer (1794–1803). The abbey was already in financial difficulties due to the costs of war and construction. The abbey's church became the parish church, dedicated to the Assumption of Mary.

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