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3 days ago · Agnes de Leyburne was elected abbess, though rather informally, according to Dene; and he says that on her death in 1324, about the time of the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, at the unanimous desire of the nuns the bishop unwillingly appointed Lora de Retlyng abbess, though knowing her to be unfit and ignorant, but forbade her to give a corrody to her maid according to the bad old ...
5 days ago · Not wishing to be the abbess, she handed the reigns over to her close friend and former lady-in-waiting from the court, Agnes. So great was her power of persuasion that she convinced the Bishop of Paris to travel to Poitiers for the inauguration of Agnes as Abbess. This journey was a long one in those days, not a couple of hours train ride.
5 days ago · In 1412 the king intervened on behalf of the house, and it was at the special request of Henry IV that Agnes Massingham (probably identical with the Agnes 'Bernard' of the Court Rolls) received papal permission to be elected Abbess of Denney, although she had been married before her profession.
5 days ago · Clare sent five nuns from San Damiano to join them and wrote Agnes four letters about the beauty of her vocation and her duties as an abbess. She embraced a life of prayer, obedience, mortification and strict adherence to the community’s vow of poverty.
1 day ago · Agnes II, Abbess of Quedlinburg, work includes miniatures and engravings; possibly Gothic period; Gothic artists. Duccio, Maestà (1308–11), his ...
2 days ago · It was founded early in the 12th century by Adeliza, Abbess of Barking, for lepers and other poor men, and until the Dissolution remained under the control of the abbey. It still survives as a set of almshouses for men and women.
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3 days ago · Wimborne Minster, the Church of St. Cuthberga. Wimborne, a royal residence, was the scene of the rising by the atheling Ethelwold in 900; (fn. 5) among the charges brought against him was the unlawful abduction of a nun, perhaps from the monastery.
