Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders. The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its...

"The Prioress's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. It follows "The Shipman's Tale" in The Canterbury Tales. Because of fragmentation...

The Prioress Stakes is an American Grade II Thoroughbred horse race held annually during the eight-week meet at Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs...

Teresa Pulcheria (1694 – April 4, 1760) was an Englishwoman who served as prioress of the Convent of Our Blessed Lady of Syon in Paris. Throckmorton was born...

Prioress Island (64°56′S 63°53′W / 64.933°S 63.883°W / -64.933; -63.883) is a narrow island lying 0.5 nautical miles (0.9 km) east of Host Island in...

France/of Valois (24 August 1393 – 19 August 1438) was a medieval nun and prioress, born a princess of France from the House of Valois as the daughter of...

surrender to love"). The phrase is inscribed on a bracelet worn by the Prioress in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia...

monastery of men or women under religious vows that is headed by a prior or prioress. Priories may be houses of mendicant friars or nuns (such as the Dominicans...

Bethóc ingen Somairle was a 13th-century Scottish prioress, considered to have been the first of Iona Nunnery. She was a daughter of Somairle mac Gilla...

religious house at Hedingham, Essex. A woman named Lucia was the first prioress at Castle Hedingham Priory. On her death in the early thirteenth century...