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- 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...
- tournaments in 1331, and Dartford was chosen to host one of these. The prioresses were as follows (with dates of record) Matilda, 1356, 1372 Jane Barwe...
- Santa Maria Novella is a church in Florence, Italy, situated opposite, and lending its name to, the city's main railway station. Chronologically, it is...
- congregation. Superiors of independent monasteries can also be abbesses or prioresses. The religious sister dedicates her life to God and to the service of...
- Campsey Priory (Campesse, Kampessie, etc.) was a religious house of Augustinian canonesses at Campsea Ashe, Suffolk, about 1.5 miles (2.5 km) southeast...
- Crabhouse Priory was a medieval monastic house in Norfolk, England. The Priory of St Mary the Virgin and St John the Evangelist was a House of Augustinian...
- Wallingwells Priory was a small house of Benedictine nuns founded in the 1140s by Ralph de Chevrolcourt at Wallingwells on land he had donated near Carlton...
- source, A History of the County of Suffolk, gives the following list of Prioresses (variants on this are noted according to An Essay Towards A Topographical...
- Elsey Abbey, earlier Elsey Priory (German: Kloster Elsey), is a former women's religious house located near Elsey, now part of Hohenlimburg, Hagen, Germany...
- had let another at Humphreston in Albrighton for 81 years at 7s. 8d. Prioresses Margaret Cowper had in 1499 let property at Rudge for 70 years and as...