Until the dissolution of Holy Roman Empire and mediatization of smaller imperial fiefs by Napoleon, the evangelical Abbess of Quedlinburg was also per officio the head of that reichsunmittelbar state.

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.

# Cecilia ( or Cecily ) was born before 1066, died 1127, Abbess of Holy Trinity, Caen.

Accompanied by his sister Sophia into Italy, Otto III named his aunt Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg, as his regent in Germany, becoming the first non-duke or bishop to serve in that capacity while the Emperor was away in Italy.

However, in 1047 Sweyn was banished for abducting the Abbess of Leominster.

Her only daughter was Beatrice I, Abbess of Quedlinburg, who never married.

The imperial family was joined by Otto II's sister Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg, King Conrad of Burgundy and his wife, Duke Hugh Capet of France, Duke Otto of Swabia and Bavaria, and other high secular and religious officials from Germany, Italy and France.

Through her mother, Richeza was a niece of Emperor Otto III ( who was instrumental to her betrothal ), Adelheid I, Abbess of Quedlinburg and Sophia I, Abbess of Gandersheim.

Agnes I ( born c. 1090 ; died 29 December 1125 in Quedlinburg ) was Abbess of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg.

After the war ended in 1939 with Franco's victory, Escrivá was able to resume his studies in Madrid and complete a doctorate in law, for which he submitted a thesis on the historical jurisdiction of the Abbess of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas.

They were founded in 1538 in Naples by the Venerable Maria Laurentia Longo, who was Abbess of the Poor Clare monastery of that city.

His story is related in the Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (" Ecclesiastical History of the English People ") by Bede who wrote, " here was in the Monastery of this Abbess a certain brother particularly remarkable for the Grace of God, who was wont to make religious verses, so that whatever was interpreted to him out of scripture, he soon after put the same into poetical expressions of much sweetness and humility in English, which was his native language.

His sister Kyneburga was the first Abbess.

The second was issued by Ferdinand's great aunt, the Abbess Urraca of Covarrubias, and reads: Facta carta conparationis die sabbato, ipsas kalnedas januarias, era TLXXV < sup > a </ sup >, rex Virimudo et Frenando comes in regnis suis ( Martínez Díez 2007, 182 ).</ ref >

The first abbey in the village was founded by St. Domneva, a widowed noblewoman, whose daughter St. Mildred, is taken as the first Abbess.

The farm was owned by the Abbess of Shaftesbury.

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.

William's wife was on another ship at the time of the wreck, and survived him to become a nun and eventually, Abbess of Fontevrault.

Their maternal grandparents were Jean de Saint-Vincent ( Boëil-Bezing, c. 1690 – Boëil-Bezing, 21 May 1762 ) and wife ( m. Assat, 30 May 1719 ) Marie d ' Abbadie de Sireix ( Sireix, 25 March 1694 – Boëil-Bezing, 16 October 1752 ), daughter of Doumengé Habas d ' Arrens and wife Marie d ' Abbadie, Lay Abbess of Sireix.

Geoffrey also had illegitimate children by an unknown mistress ( or mistresses ): Hamelin ; Emme, who married Dafydd Ab Owain Gwynedd, Prince of North Wales ; and Mary, who became a nun and Abbess of Shaftesbury and who may be the poetess Marie de France.

* Marie of Champagne, married Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy, became Abbess of Fontevrault later in life.

The Abbess was tolerant and found Medora lodgings outside the convent, where a living child was born on 19 May 1834 ; she was baptised Marie Violette Trevanion on 21 May 1834.

* Anne Marie Thérèse of Lorraine ( 30 July 1648 – 17 June 1661 ) Abbess of Remiremont, no issue ;

# Anne Marie de Lorraine ( 1624-5 August 1652 ) never married ; Abbess of Remiremont and Pont-aux-Dames ;

* Marie Louise Adélaïde d ' Orléans ( 1698 – 1743 ), Abbess of Chelles

# Marie, Abbess of Itzehoe ( 22 August 1575 – 6 December 1640 )

* Marie ( June 10, 1565 – January 27, 1627 ), Abbess of Chelles

Through Abbess Marie-Angélique, Saint-Cyran had met her brother, Antoine Arnauld, and brought him to accept Jansen's position in Augustinus.

An abbey ( from Latin abbatia, derived from Latin language abbatia, from Latin abbās, derived from Aramaic language abba, " father ") is a Catholic monastery or convent, under the authority of an Abbot or an Abbess, who serves as the spiritual father or mother of the community.

Her older five siblings were: Adelaide ( later Abbess of Quedlinburg ), Gisela ( who died in infancy before her birth ), Matilda ( later wife of Rudolf of Rheinfelden, Duke of Swabia and Antiking ), Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Conrad II, Duke of Bavaria ( who also died in infancy ).

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.

Sibylla was raised by her great-aunt, the Abbess Ioveta of Bethany, sister of former Queen Melisende of Jerusalem, who founded the convent of St. Lazarus in Bethany for her sister in 1128, and died there in 1163.

They were led by Mother Jeronima of the Assumption, P. C. C., who was appointed Abbess.

Of those who form a part of the Congregation of the Holy Hermitage, their Motherhouse is the Abbey of St. Anthony the Abbot in Rome, where the Abbess lives.

Sometime before 1431 the Abbess and Convent received permission by letters patent from King Henry VI ( 1422 – 1461 ), the son of the founder and who was particularly favourable to Syon, having made it several grants and confirmations in rapid succession, to move the monastery to a new site of their own choosing some mile and a half downstream to a riverbank site within Isleworth parish.

She succeeded the Abbess, Saint Tenoi, who is believed to be her maternal grand-aunt.

The story purports to be the written confession of one Alicia Longspée, who had been Lady Abbess of the Benedictine Convent at Wilton in the 15th century.

Giffard's brother was Bishop Godfrey Giffard, who was Bishop of Worcester and also Lord Chancellor of England ; his sister Mabel was the Abbess of Shaftesbury Abbey.

Back at the house, the Abbess delivers a sermon on the doctrine of Yuishiki or the consciousness-only theory of Hosso Buddhism, telling the parable of Yuan Hsiao, the man who, in pitch darkness, drank from a skull by accident.

The Abbess, who suspects that a plot against the Emperor is unfolding, hopes to thwart it by shielding Satoko.

* Dorothy ( 1534 – 1618 ), who was the god-daughter of Dorothy Barlee, Abbess of Barking.

Ten seasons after they return to the Abbey, we find that Springald has become Abbey Recorder, Fenna has become Abbess, Horty has joined the Long Patrol at Salamandastron, adding the nom de guerre ' Longblade ' to his name, Lonna has become ruler of Salamandastron, and Martha sings and dances on the walls every season in memory of the two who left to try to find her a cure.