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Office Christianity

abbess

abbatissa la

Female superior of a community of nuns, often an abbey

A seat,
and those
who held it.

Holders in order

Overview

From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Succession in office

Everyone recorded as holding it

Its tenures overlap throughout — a roll of holders, not a line.

  • 77 holders
  • 38 overlapping pairs
  • 62 undated
What this means

Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.

Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened

Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.

A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. This office’s tenures overlap throughout, so it is listed as a roll in order of start rather than drawn as a line.

Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.

Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.

Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

  1. the 670s CE – 693 CE Begga Christian saint
  2. 800 CE – 810 CE Gisela, Abbess of Chelles Roman Catholic nun and abbess
  3. from 814 CE Theodrada daughter of Charlemagne Hedged in the source
  4. from 864 CE Teutberga Peerage person ID=713063 Has references
  5. 17 November 878 CE – 896 CE Ermengard of Italy -896 Has references
  6. 1136 CE – 1179 CE Hildegard of Bingen German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179) Has references
  7. 1184 CE – 1203 CE Agnes II Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, House of Wettin member (1139–1203) Has references
  8. from 1215 CE Clare of Assisi Italian saint (1194–1253) Has references
  9. 1565 CE – 1571 CE Charlotte of Bourbon French noblewoman (1546-1582); third wife of William the Silent (1546-1582)
  10. from 25 July 1605 CE Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau Countess of Nassau
  11. August 1664 CE – 1709 CE Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate German artist (1622-1709)
  12. 6 June 1719 CE – 10 February 1743 CE Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans French abbess (1698-1743) Has references
  13. 1733 CE – 1772 CE Henriette Louise de Bourbon French abbess (1703-1772)
  14. 1738 CE – 1773 CE Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine French royal (1714-1773)
  15. 1773 CE – 1782 CE Princess Maria Christina of Saxony Princess of Saxony and an Abbess (1735-1782)

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Sources

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Data
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Text
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Pictures
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Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0

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