After her husband had died in 936, Matilda and her son Otto established Quedlinburg Abbey in his memory, a convent of noble canonesses, where in 966 her granddaughter Matilda became the first abbess.

The political power of the convent slowly waned in the 14th 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 nominated by the abbess.

* Stavrophore — The next level for monastics takes place some years after the first tonsure when the abbess feels the nun has reached a level of discipline, dedication, and humility.

Robert of Arbrissel declared that the leader of the order should always be a woman and appointed Petronille de Chemillé as the first abbess.

Correggio's first major commission ( February – September 1519 ) was the ceiling decoration of the private dining salon of the mother-superior ( abbess Giovanna Piacenza ) of the convent of St Paul called the Camera di San Paolo at Parma.

The earliest record of a permanent settlement is in 656, when Streonshal, was the place where Oswy, the Christian king of Northumbria, founded the first abbey, under the abbess, Hilda.

Its first abbess, the royal princess Hild, was later venerated as a saint.

Itta's daughter, Gertrude, became the monastery's first abbess and was venerated as a saint upon her death.

* Saint Begga, daughter of Pepin of Landen and mother of Pepin of Heristal, founded a convent in Andenne of which she was the first abbess.

He appointed Lady Hilda, abbess of Hartlepool Abbey and niece of Edwin the first Christian king of Northumbria, as founding abbess.

Frithuswith was the first abbess of the Oxford double monastery.

The museum houses also the funeral monuments in late-Gothic style of the first abbess D. Uganda and of the Infante Fernando, Duke of Viseu and his wife Beatriz of Portugal.

In the Mahayana tradition during the 13th century, the Japanese Mugai Nyodai became the first female abbess and thus the first ordained female Zen master.

* 13th century The first female Zen master, as well as the first Zen abbess, was the Japanese abbess Mugai Nyodai ( born 1223-died 1298 ).

Then, eventually, perhaps after Sighere's death, she established a convent at Chich, in Essex, where she ruled as first abbess.

Therefore, Fo Guang Shan asked the Venerable Tzu Chuang ( who, upon the inception of the temple, became the founding and first abbess of Hsi Lai Temple ) and Yi Heng to plan and organize the construction of the temple in the Greater Los Angeles area.

The first abbess, Tzu Chuang.

In 1218 Hedwig's daughter Gertrude became abbess of Trzebnica, the first of many Piast princesses to hold this office.

* Katherine de Bolewyk, first abbess 1342, occurs 1351

But her prettiness was what he had noticed first, and all the other things had come afterward: cruelty, meanness, self-will.

There was an artificial lake just out of sight in the first stand of trees, fed by a half dozen springs that popped out of the ground above the hillside orchard.

The first part of the road was steep, but it leveled off after the second bend and curled gradually into the valley.

No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.

The herd was watered and then thrown onto a broad grass flat which was to be the first night's bedground.

Once again, Tom Horn was the first and most likely suspect, and he was brought in for questioning immediately.

For Matilda, it was the first she had known in many a night.

Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.

Stevens was grunting over the last empty pocket when Russ abruptly rose and lunged toward Carmer's hat, which had tumbled half-a-dozen feet away when he first fell.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

It was her first smile.

At first, I thought he was out of his head, talking wildly like this.

Hell, I gave him the first decent job he ever had, six, seven -- how many years ago was it, Rob ''??

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.

It was just as well that the ignorant Dandy enjoyed himself to the hilt that first evening, for the room was to become his prison cell.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

In 1961 the first important legislative victory of the Kennedy Administration came when the principle of national responsibility for local economic distress won out over a `` state's-responsibility '' proposal -- provision was made for payment for unemployment relief by nation-wide taxation rather than by a levy only on those states afflicted with manpower surplus.

The first systematic thinking about this Pandora's box within Pandora's boxes was done four years ago by Fred Ikle, a frail, meek-mannered Swiss-born sociologist.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

His collaboration with Washington, begun when he was the general's aide during the Revolution, was resumed when he entered the first Cabinet as Secretary of the Treasury.

The work was produced in Munich for the first time at the National Theatre on 16 June 1867 with Heinrich Vogl in the title role and Mathilde Mallinger as Elsa.

In April 1858 Wagner's wife Minna intercepted a note from Wagner to Mathilde, and, despite Wagner's protests that she was putting a " vulgar interpretation " on the note, she accused first Wagner and then Mathilde of unfaithfulness.

The princess watches anxiously as first the glowering Prince of the Indies ( Noble Johnson ), then the obese Prince of Persia ( an uncredited Mathilde Comont ), and finally the Prince of the Mongols ( Sojin ) pass by the rose-tree.

During this engagement, he performed the classic " Mathilde " for the first time.

He was the son of Arnold von Siemens and wife Ellen von Helmholtz and paternal grandson of Ernst Werner von Siemens and first wife Mathilde Duman.

Princess Mathilde's mother was Emperor Nicholas I of Russia's first cousin, and the emperor supported Mathilde in her clashes with her spouse, a Russian subject.

Arnoul, a successor, regularly confronted Count Godfrey of Bouillon, leader of the first Crusade and nephew of Queen Mathilde.

The first historical news about a free Cremona is from 1093, as it entered into an anti-Empire alliance led by Mathilde of Canossa, together with Lodi, Milan and Piacenza.

The Dutch singer Mathilde Santing had a gold record and the first Top 10 hit version of " Beautiful People " in 1997.

After the divorce from his first wife, Mathilde ( who then married Herman Gesellius ), on March 6, 1904 Saarinen married his second wife, Louise ( Loja ) Gesellius, a sculptor in Helsinki, and the younger sister of Herman Gesellius.

Black Lace also publishes short story anthologies, novella collections and in 2007 launched its first trilogy, a series of werewolf erotica by Mathilde Madden.

She then participated in the Miami Masters and lost to Mathilde Johansson in the first round.

* Margarethe Mathilde von Wrangell ( 1877 – 1932 ), the first female full professor at a German university ( University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart )

His Mathilde ( 1841 ) contains the first known expression of the popular proverb " La vengeance se mange très-bien froide ", lately expressed in English as " Revenge is a dish best served cold ".

Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, later Victoria Mountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven ( Victoria Alberta Elisabeth Mathilde Marie ; 5 April 1863 – 24 September 1950 ) was the eldest daughter of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine ( 1837 – 1892 ) and his first wife Princess Alice of the United Kingdom ( 1843 – 1878 ).

In 1911 she decided to try the stage instead of the concert hall and obtained an engagement at London's Adelphi Theatre as understudy to Elsie Spain in the role of Princess Mathilde in The Quaker Girl, first going on stage in that role on 7 August 1911.

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond, 8th Duke of Lennox, 3rd Duke of Gordon DSO MVO ( 30 December 1870 – 7 May 1935 ) was a British Peer, the son of the 7th Duke by his first wife, Amy Mary Ricardo ( 1849 – 1879 ), daughter of Percy Ricardo, of Bramley Park and Mathilde Hensley.

The first Russian ballerina to perform the 32 fouettés was Mathilde Kschessinskaya.

Known as Wilhelm von Siemens, he was the son of Werner von Siemens by first wife Mathilde Duman and was a general partner of Siemens AG.

In the 2011 Australian Open, which she started as the No. 10 seed, Pe ' er won her first round match against Mathilde Johansson, 6 – 1, 6 – 1.