* Adrian of Canterbury ( died 710 ), scholar and Abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury

Ealdred ( or Aldred ; died 11 September 1069 ) was Abbot of Tavistock, Bishop of Worcester, and Archbishop of York in Anglo-Saxon England.

The main source of information about Columba's life is the Vita Columbae by Adomnán ( also known as Eunan ), the ninth Abbot of Iona, who died in 704.

* Hwaetberht ( died 740s ), Abbot of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow Priory, who wrote under the pen-name of Eusebius

From the 12th century Abbot Hugh of Semur ( died 1109 ), Peter Abelard ( died 1142 ), and Geoffrey of Vendome ( died 1132 ) all referred to Mary Magdalene as the sinner who merited the title apostolarum apostola, with the title becoming commonplace during the 12th and 13th centuries.

In September 1362, Abbot William arrived in Avignon, returning from Naples, where he had been sent by Pope Innocent IV as papal legate, only to learn that the pope had died.

* Adrian of Canterbury ( died 710 ), scholar and the Abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury

Stephen probably had three illegitimate sons, Gervase, Ralph and Americ, by his mistress Damette ; Gervase became Abbot of Westminster in 1138, but after his father's death Gervase was removed by Henry in 1157 and died shortly afterwards.

According to Odilo, Abbot of Cluny, Adelaide was very happy when " that Greek woman " died.

In reality, he died in the " Jerusalem " chamber of the house of the Abbot of Westminster, on 20 March 1413 during a convocation of Parliament.

* Gilla Críst Ua Máel Eóin, historian and Abbot of Clonmacnoise, died 1127

The monastic community was founded by Saint David, Abbot of Menevia, who died in 589.

Saint Adomnán, Abbot of Iona who died in 704, mentions similar free standing ringed wooden crosses, later replaced by stone versions.

Merton ’ s Father Abbot, Dom Frederic Dunne, died on August 3, 1948 on a trainride to Georgia.

Ralph d ' Escures ( died 20 October 1122 ) was a medieval Abbot of Séez, Bishop of Rochester and then Archbishop of Canterbury.

Túathalán, first known Abbot of Cennrígmonaid, died in 747, and it is thought likely that the establishment is due to the earlier Óengus ( king from 729 ; died 761 ) or to Nechtan mac Der-Ilei ( king 706 – 724 and? 728 – 729 ; died 732 ).

* probable-George Abbot, " the Puritan " ( died 1648 )

Abbot was the fifth and youngest son of Maurice Abbot, a cloth-worker of Guildford who died in 1606, and was the brother of Archbishop George Abbot and of Robert, who became Bishop of Salisbury.

The World Calendar has its roots in the proposed calendar of the Abbot Marco Mastrofini, a proposal to reform the Gregorian calendar year so that it would always begin on Sunday, January 1, and would contain equal quarters of 91 days each.

He remains on good terms, however, with churchmen who stood by him, including Abbot Sampson, who this year bequeaths John his jewels.

In the same year or 1540 ( the above history references both dates ), Henry awarded the manor to Miles Forrest, the documented bailiff of the Abbot of Peterborough.

Building work started in the year of Abbot Paul's arrival.

It is noted that in the year 1141, under Abbot Radulfus, 53 brothers, seven novices and six school boys live at the Abbey, not including lay stewards and servants.

The Bishop of Norwich, as Abbot, arrives once a year, standing in the bow of a wherry and preaches at the annual service on the first Sunday of August.

He defeated the Angles at Carham in 1018 and installed his grandson, Duncan, son of the Abbot of Dunkeld and his choice as Tanist, in Carlisle as King of Cumbria that same year.

Her education was spotty, consisting of a short stint at a " dame school ", some home schooling under the " capable, slightly impatient, somewhat sporadic " instruction of Albion Bradbury ( her stepfather ), a brief spell at the district school, a year as a boarder at the Gorham Female Seminary, a winter term at Morison Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, and a few months ' stay at Abbot Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, where she graduated with the class of 1873.

The only contemporary evidence of him is an abstract of a charter dated in that year, in which Ealhmund granted land to the Abbot of Reculver.

Phillips Academy admitted only boys until the school became coeducational in 1973, the year of Phillips Academy's merger with Abbot Academy, a boarding school for girls in downtown Andover.

In 1694, the king named Fénelon Abbot of Saint-Valéry, a lucrative post worth 14, 000 livres a year.

That same year, the Abbot of Shaolin invites the K-Star martial arts reality TV show to film a TV series of foreigners competing to survive Shaolin style training.

That same year, the College turned the old Abbot Hall male dorm into a women's dormitory.

On May 31, 1955, the Smithsonian held a birthday party for Abbot, marking his 83rd birthday and his 60th year of association with the Smithsonian.

When Peterborough Monastery was dissolved in 1539 Abbot Chambers was made the first Bishop of Peterborough, and the following year Henry VIII granted three Commissions of the Peace to the coterminous Liberty of Peterborough.

He insisted that in the year 954 Seborga became the property of the Benedictine Monks of Santo Onorato of Lerins and in 1079 the Abbot of this monastery was made a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, with temporal authority over the Principality of Seborga.

In 1347 the Keeper of the Stud was Richard de Bekenesfield and he was ordered to render tithes due to the Abbot of Notley if there were sufficient foals of the year for the purpose.

In the same year, John of Dundemore affixed his seal as a witness to the settlement of the dispute between the Abbot and Convent of Lundoris and the Burgesses of Newburgh.

A year later he began Zen study with Sogaku Shaku, a disciple of the Rinzai Zen Buddhist Abbot Soyen Shaku.

Saint Malachy was elected Abbot of the monastery in 1123, a year before being consecrated Bishop of Connor.

When Davidge left to take over the Surrey Theatre in 1833 it was bought by Daniel Egerton and William Abbot who tried to capitalise on the abolition of the legal distinction between patent and minor theatres, enacted in Parliament earlier that year.

On the formation of the Addington ministry in March 1801 Abbot became Chief Secretary and Privy Seal for Ireland ; and in the February of the following year he was chosen Speaker of the House of Commons, a position that he held with universal satisfaction until 1817, when an attack of erysipelas compelled him to retire.

In defense of them intervened Gioacchino da Fiore, Constance ’ s confessor, because he knew the people there, spent almost a year in the Rende mountains before becoming Abbot of Corazzo.

James I stayed at Bramshill in 1620 and the next year George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, went down to Bramshill to consecrate a chapel for Lord Zouche.