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abbess
abbatissa la
Female superior of a community of nuns, often an abbey
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Everyone recorded as holding it
Its tenures overlap throughout — a roll of holders, not a line.
- 77 holders
- 38 overlapping pairs
- 62 undated
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the 670s CE – 693 CE Begga Christian saint -
800 CE – 810 CE Gisela, Abbess of Chelles Roman Catholic nun and abbess - from 814 CE Theodrada daughter of Charlemagne
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from 864 CE Teutberga Peerage person ID=713063 - 17 November 878 CE – 896 CE Ermengard of Italy -896
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1136 CE – 1179 CE Hildegard of Bingen German Benedictine abbess, polymath, mystic and Doctor of Church (1098–1179) -
1184 CE – 1203 CE Agnes II Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, House of Wettin member (1139–1203) -
from 1215 CE Clare of Assisi Italian saint (1194–1253) -
1565 CE – 1571 CE Charlotte of Bourbon French noblewoman (1546-1582); third wife of William the Silent (1546-1582) -
from 25 July 1605 CE Countess Charlotte Flandrina of Nassau Countess of Nassau -
August 1664 CE – 1709 CE Louise Hollandine of the Palatinate German artist (1622-1709) -
6 June 1719 CE – 10 February 1743 CE Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans French abbess (1698-1743) -
1733 CE – 1772 CE Henriette Louise de Bourbon French abbess (1703-1772) -
1738 CE – 1773 CE Princess Anne Charlotte of Lorraine French royal (1714-1773) -
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1773 CE – 1782 CE Princess Maria Christina of Saxony Princess of Saxony and an Abbess (1735-1782)
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Dates unrecorded Brigid of Kildare Irish abbess and saint (c. 451 – 525) -
Dates unrecorded Héloïse d’Argenteuil 12th-century French nun, philosopher and writer -
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Dates unrecorded Hilda Christian saint and the founding abbess of the monastery at Whitby, England -
Dates unrecorded Agnes of Bohemia princess who became a nun and saint (1211-1282) -
Dates unrecorded Sibylla of Anhalt Duchess consort of Württemberg. -
Dates unrecorded Mildthryth Anglo-Saxon Abbess -
Dates unrecorded Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria princess (1743-1808) -
Dates unrecorded Æthelthryth Abbess of Ely -
Dates unrecorded Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria (1738-1789) -
Dates unrecorded Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine Grand Duchess of Russia (1864–1918) -
Dates unrecorded Aldegund Frankish saint and abbess (639-684) -
Dates unrecorded Dorothea Maria of Anhalt Duchess consort of Saxe-Weimar
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Dates unrecorded Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria Austrian archduchess -
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Dates unrecorded Sancha of Portugal Portuguese princess, nun and blessed, Lady of Alenquer -
Dates unrecorded Scholastica Italian saint -
Dates unrecorded Cynethryth Queen of Mercia and wife of King Offa -
Dates unrecorded Macrina the Younger 4th-century Roman nun -
Dates unrecorded Irmina of Oeren Frankish noble -
Dates unrecorded Edith of Wilton English nun -
Dates unrecorded Adela Catholic saint and royal princess -
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Dates unrecorded Catherine of Bologna Italian cloistered nun (1413-1463) -
Dates unrecorded Kunigunde of Bohemia Czech princess -
Dates unrecorded Yolanda of Poland Princess of Hungary and Duchess of Poland, later abbess - Dates unrecorded Eanflæd Kentish princess
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Dates unrecorded Gertrude of Austria Austrian noble -
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Dates unrecorded Mechtilde Saxon Christian saint -
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Dates unrecorded Elizabeth of Hungary, Queen of Serbia Queen of Serbia - Dates unrecorded Itta of Metz Frankish Saint
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Dates unrecorded Maria Amalia of Saxony, Duchess of Zweibrücken Saxon Royal -
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Dates unrecorded Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich Abbess of Vilich and Christian saint (c.970-c.1015) -
Dates unrecorded Marie Gabrielle Éléonore de Bourbon French noble (1690-1760) -
Dates unrecorded Rictrude Merovingian saint -
Dates unrecorded Agnes of Montepulciano Dominican nun, wonderworker and saint -
Dates unrecorded Juliana of Liège Premonstratensian canoness, saint and mystic -
Dates unrecorded Clare of Montefalco Augustinian nun and abbess -
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Dates unrecorded Jutta von Sponheim German noble and nun -
Dates unrecorded Marie Angélique Arnauld French Cistercian abbess (1591-1661) -
Dates unrecorded Saint Walpurga West Saxon saint -
Dates unrecorded Waltrude Belgian saint (612-688) -
Dates unrecorded Agnes of Poitiers 6th-century French saint and abbess -
Dates unrecorded Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt Abbess of Gernrode, Electress of Saxony, Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg -
Dates unrecorded Seaxburh of Ely queen of King Eorcenberht of Kent, abbess, and saint of the Christian Church (640-699) -
Dates unrecorded Archduchess Magdalena of Austria Member of the House of Habsburg (1532-1590) -
Dates unrecorded Maria Kunigunde of Saxony Princess of Saxony and Poland, abbess of Essen and Thorn (1740–1826) -
Dates unrecorded Gisela of Hungary German princess, Hungarian queen consort and Roman Catholic blessed -
Dates unrecorded Margaret of Hungary Hungarian princess and saint (1242-1270) -
Dates unrecorded Æthelburh of Kent second wife of Edwin of Northumbria -
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Dates unrecorded Katarina Sunesdotter Swedish queen -
Dates unrecorded Matilda of Ringelheim German queen consort and duchess consort of Saxony (895-968) -
Dates unrecorded Matilda of Scotland Queen consort of England -
Dates unrecorded Princess Alexandra of Bavaria Bavarian princess (1826–1875) -
Dates unrecorded Gisela Frankish noble, daughter of Louis the Pious -
Dates unrecorded Marie Elisabeth, Abbess of Quedlinburg German abbess (1678-1755) -
Dates unrecorded Maria, Abbess of Quedlinburg German abbess -
Dates unrecorded Mathilda of Essen abbess of Essen Abbey from 973 to her death -
Dates unrecorded Joan of Valois, Countess of Hainaut sister of King Philip VI of France and the mother-in-law of Edward III -
Dates unrecorded Gryfina of Halych Polish queen -
Dates unrecorded Richardis Holy Roman Empress from 881 to 888, Catholic saint -
Dates unrecorded Richardis of Bavaria German noblewoman, Countess consort of Guelders -
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Dates unrecorded Winifred 7th-century Welsh saint -
Dates unrecorded Milica Hrebeljanović poet (1335-1405) -
Dates unrecorded Joan of Valois French queen who entered religious life, became a nun and later an abbess who founded the Sisters of the Annunciation of Mary (canonized 1950)
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