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    "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...
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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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • Joanna (prioress of Lothen), a twelfth century nun, was the prioress of the monastery of Lothen in Germany. Joanna is remembered for her tapestry work...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    your Mother Prioress wants, my child. I forbid you to forget the incidents of these fifteen days." Then the lady vanished. The prioress, Mary Cecilia...
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  • 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...
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  • and a corresponding monastery of men. Both were governed locally by a prioress and ultimately by the Abbess of Fontevraud, in Anjou, part of the territories...
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    Crown Lady Ethel Manners TV film 1985 Out of Africa Lady Belfield 1988 Stealing Heaven Prioress 1991 Uncle Vanya Prioress 1997 Déjà Vu Skelly's Mother...
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  • At that point in time, the community consisted of the prioress and three nuns. The prioress of the monastery also held the title of Baroness of Douglas...
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    she has had a dream that the two of them will die young together. The prioress, who is dying, commits Blanche to the care of Mother Marie. The Mother...
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    and took the religious name Thérèse of Saint Augustine. She served as prioress in 1773-1779 and 1785–1787. Her cause for canonization was opened in 1902...
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    Amesbury Priory and became a nun, then in 1391 was elected the monastery's prioress. Her vigorous government led to a few stormy years in the monastery, in...
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    requires that nuns pledge obedience to God, the Blessed Virgin, their prioress and her successors according to the Rule of Saint Augustine and the institute...
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    certain orders who retain a traditional habit. The Wife of Bath and the Prioress are depicted wearing wimples in the Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer...
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  • Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray Isabel of Lancaster, Prioress of Amesbury (c. 1317 – post-1347), prioress of Amesbury Priory Eleanor (1318–1372), married John...
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    (1460–1538) was the prioress of Coldstream from 1505 until her death. She was succeeded by her relative, Janet Pringle, the last ‘real’ prioress of the house...
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    The Canterbury Tales, and four of the tales (the Man of Law's, Clerk's, Prioress', and Second Nun's) use rhyme royal. In 1386, Chaucer became Controller...
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    the Prioress Elizabeth Prudde in 1472, it is recorded that seven nuns and ten novices were present. At the election in 1534 of the last prioress, Sybil...
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    English writer on heraldry, hawking and hunting, and is said to have been prioress of the St Mary of Sopwell, near St Albans in Hertfordshire. Very little...
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    Count of Soissons, and had issue. Mary of Clermont (1285–1372, Paris), Prioress of Poissy [fr] Peter of Clermont (1287 – aft. 1330), Archdeacon of Paris...
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    Hart, her friend since the early 1960s, had become a nun and ultimately prioress. Neal had been a longtime supporter of the abbey's open-air theatre and...
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    immorality and sometimes brutal violence among the Benedictine nuns and their prioress at St Nicholas' Priory in Littlemore (thus "Littlemore Priory"), in Oxfordshire...
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  • sweetness, strewn around their rooms or outside their doors. Meantime, the prioress, Mary Cecilia of Jesus, decided to consult Alfredo Obviar, auxiliary bishop...
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    abbess, Clare had more authority to lead the order than when she was the prioress and required to follow the orders of a priest heading the community. Clare...
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