- A
canoness is a
member of a
religious community of
women living a
simple life. Many
communities observe the
monastic Rule of St. Augustine. The name corresponds...
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Hrotsvitha (c. 935–973) was a
secular canoness who
wrote drama and
Christian poetry under the
Ottonian dynasty. She was born in Bad
Gandersheim to Saxon...
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February 1725 – 4 June 1782) was a
Hessian princess who
lived as a
secular canoness before becoming a
coadjutor princess-abbess of
Herford Abbey. Princess...
- rule gave rise to two types: the
canoness regular,
taking the
traditional religious vows, and the
secular canoness, who did not take vows and thus remained...
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martyrdom is the
subject of a 10th-century
medieval Latin drama by the
secular canoness,
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim. The
island of
Santorini is
named after...
- (Chapter of the
Noble Ladies of Poussay),
where she was
raised as a
secular canoness among other daughters of the
local nobility. In 1662,
Charles IV, the...
- 23
January 1808 in Altona) was a
German aristocrat who
lived as a
secular canoness and
ruled as the last Princess-abbess of
Herford Abbey. Friederike...
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Louise one of its
endowed prebends.
Although technically Louise was a
secular canoness (a type of
religious life with no vows), she was not a nun so she was...
- Rotselaar,
Belgium Skegness,
United Kingdom Hrotsvitha (c. 935–973),
secular canoness who
wrote drama and
Christian poetry Wilhelm Keitel (1882-1946), field...
- Wang Yucheng,
Chinese poet (born 954) c. 1002 – Hrotsvitha,
Saxon secular canoness and
writer of
Latin poetry and
drama (born c. 935) c. 1010 – Ælfric...
