An abbess (Latin: abbatissa) is the female superior of a community of nuns in an abbey. In the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and Eastern Catholic)...
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Fontevraud Abbey (redirect from Abbess of Fontevrault)
authority of the Abbess of Fontevraud. The Abbey of Fontevraud itself consisted of four separate communities, all managed by the same abbess. The first permanent...
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Mary of Shaftesbury (redirect from Mary, Abbess of Shaftesbury)
Marie (died 1215/16) was an abbess of Shaftesbury Abbey during the 12th century, from at least 1181 to 1215. She was the illegitimate daughter of Count...
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Shane Abbess is an Australian filmmaker best known for making the movies Gabriel and Infini. For a time he was attached to direct Source Code and The Dark...
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Hildegard of Bingen (redirect from Abbess Hildegard)
as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary...
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Eibingen Abbey (redirect from Abbess of Eibingen)
abbess and founder of the community From 1603 the abbesses held the title of "Abbess of Rupertsberg and Eibingen". Kunigunde Frey von Dehrn, abbess around...
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Cristina (daughter of Edward the Exile) (redirect from Abbess Cristina of Romsey)
Mary were sent to Romsey Abbey, near Southampton, in 1086 when she was abbess. Cristina came to the Kingdom of England with her family in 1057, from Hungary...
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The Abbess: A Romance is a gothic novel by William Henry Ireland first published in 1799. The text was modelled upon Matthew Lewis's The Monk (1796). The...
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Prince-abbot (redirect from Princess-abbess)
prince-bishops. They ranked higher than the imperial abbots and imperial abbesses who although they were also immediate, held only two collective votes in...
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Merovingian dynasty (section Queens and abbesses)
Glodesind, abbess in Metz (died c. 600) Burgundofara, abbess of Moutiers (died 645) Sadalberga, abbess of Laon (died 670) Rictrude, founding abbess of Marchiennes...
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