Saint Frithuswith ( c. 65019 October 727 ; ; also known as Frideswide, Frideswith, Fritheswithe, Frevisse, or simply Fris ) was an English princess and abbess who is credited with establishing Christ Church in Oxford.

Frithuswith was the first abbess of the Oxford double monastery.

In the shorter version, Frithuswith hides in a forest outside Oxford, but when Algar comes to look for her, she sneaks back into the town.

Frithuswith is the patron saint of Oxford.

With the help of her father, Frithuswith founded a priory ( St Frideswide's Priory ) while still young, but even though Fritheswith was bound to celibacy, Algar ( that is, Æthelbald ), a Mercian king, sought to marry her.

When Frithuswith refused him, Algar tried to abduct her.

The shorter tale recounts that Frithuswith was born to Didan ( an Anglo-Saxon sub-king ) and his wife Safrida around 650.

Frithuswith hiding with swine.

Two twelfth-century Latin manuscripts ( edited by John Blair ) present two Middle English accounts of the Life of Saint Frithuswith, which are included in the South English Legendary.

After the elevation of Matilda's brother Otto II as co-emperor in 967 and the death of her half-brother Archbishop William of Mainz one year later, the abbess remained the only important member of the Ottonian dynasty in the Saxon lands under regent Hermann Billung ; therefore, Widuking may have begun the writing — or started all over again — to create a kind of mirror for princes.

Eanflæd became the abbess around 680 and remained there until her death.

Hilda, however, remained a Christian, and eventually went on to become abbess of the influential Whitby Abbey.

Therefore he and his brother Jasper were brought up in the care of Katherine de la Pole, abbess of Barking, with whom they remained till 1442.

Eleanor fled to exile in France where she became a nun at Montargis Abbey, a nunnery founded by her deceased husband's sister Amicia, who remained there as abbess.

In 657 Hilda became the founding abbess of a new monastery at Whitby, then known as Streoneshalh ; she remained there until her death.

Æbbe remained as abbess until her death around 680, a few years later the monastery was accidentally burned down and was not replaced.

Emperor Otto III reaffirmed Vilich's immunities from ecclesiastical interference and the right to appoint its own abbess, a title that remained only briefly in the founding family.

Though the rules required the abbess to be changed every three years, María remained effectively in charge of the Ágreda convent until her death, except for a three year sabbatical in her fifties.

Dennett has remarked in several places ( such as " Self-portrait ", in Brainchildren ) that his overall philosophical project has remained largely the same since his time at Oxford.

Turnbull remained in Oxford for two years before another field trip to Africa, finally focusing on the Belgian Congo ( 1957 – 58 ) and Uganda.

He remained an extra year at Oxford studying graduate-level statistics, and following his National Service in the Royal Navy ( 1956 – 1958 ).

Though the document has not survived, it is clear that Henry was forced to accept the Provisions of Oxford, while Prince Edward remained hostage to the barons.

When she was six, her family moved to Oxford, where she remained for the rest of her life.

This tactic failed ; Oxford remained true to the Lancastrian crown and participated in Warwick's effort to dethrone Edward.

" In Oxford he ( Harvey ) very soon settled down to his accustomed pursuits, unmindful of the clatter of arms and of the constant marching and countermarching around him, for the city remained the base of operations until its surrender ... "

On New Year's Day 1940, in the chapel of Mansfield College, Oxford, he married Mary Baldwin who remained his wife until his death.

After the United Free Church of Scotland joined in 1929 with the Church of Scotland, Buchan remained an active elder of St. Columba's Church in London, as well as of the Oxford Presbyterian parish.

After Oxford, he found an entry-level job at The Times Literary Supplement, and at age 27 became literary editor of the New Statesman, where he met Christopher Hitchens, then a feature writer for The Observer, who remained a close friend until Hitchens's death in 2011.

Uxbridge Road was part of the main London to Oxford stagecoach route for many years and remained the main route to Oxford until the building of the Western Avenue highway to the north of Southall in the first half of the 20th century.

This belief, coupled with the lure of the advantages of the tutorial system and the fact that the Baptist Church remained the only Free Church denomination without a college in one of the ancient universities, led Wheeler Robinson to decide to relocate the College to Oxford.

The College remained a largely all-male institution until 1979, when ( in common with a number of other Oxford colleges ) it admitted its first women undergraduates.

It remained that until the establishment of a post office, when it was confused with Oxford, Wisconsin.

before moving on to Warwick for his Ph. D. His career had taken him to Hull, Institute for Advanced Study, Swansea and St Catherine's College, Oxford before becoming a professor at the University of Edinburgh in 1979 where he remained until retiring from the post in 2005.

He remained Jeffreys's tutor when the latter attended University College, Oxford in 1694, and he there met the variety of scholars then teaching mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe, Isaac Newton, and Samuel Pepys.

The northern section of the Oxford Canal between Coventry, Braunston and Napton remained an important trunk route, and remained extremely busy with freight traffic until the 1960s.

The Oxford Canal remained independent until it was nationalised in 1948 and became part of the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive, later the British Waterways Board.

The Oxford Canal remained profitable until the mid-1950s, paying a dividend right up until nationalisation.

He retired from Oxford in 1973 to Trenarren House, his Cornish home, from where he remained active as writer, reviewer and conversationalist until immobilised by a stroke the year before his death.

From 1854 to 1861 he was an organist at St Paul's Church in his native town and, as successor to John Stainer, in 1872 at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he remained for ten years.

He entered the post on 10 August 1636 ; but the next summer he sailed back to Constantinople in the company of John Greaves, later Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford, to prosecute further studies and collect more books ; he remained there for about three years.

In 1579, Daniel was admitted to Magdalen Hall ( now known as Hertford College ) at Oxford University, where he remained for about three years and afterwards devoted himself to the study of poetry and philosophy.