Editing Romsey Abbey (section)

== List of Abbesses of Romsey ==
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!  style="background:#ddddec"|Name
!  style="background:#ddddec"|year appointed
!  style="background:#ddddec"|year resigned/died
!  style="background:#ddddec"|Notes

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|Abbey founded 		
|907
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|Abbess	[[Ælflæda of Romsey|Ælflæda]]
|907
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|Daughter of [[Edward the Elder]], Abbey was built for her.
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|Abbess [[Merwinna]]	
|966
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|Abbess [[Elwina]]	
|992
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|Abbess [[Æthelflæda of Romsey|Æthelflæda]]
|1003
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|Abbess Wulfynn		
|1016
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|Abbess [[Ælfgyfu]]	
|1042
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|Abbess	[[Cristina, daughter of Edward the Exile|Cristina]]
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|1093
|Daughter of [[Edward the Exile]]
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|Incomplete records for about a century
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| <ref>Abbess [[Cristina, daughter of Edward the Exile|Cristina]] at Romsey flourished 1086AD, until probably before 1093AD when her nieces were moved to Wilton Abbey.</ref><ref>Abbess [[Eadgyth]] at Romsey about 1093AD.</ref>
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|Abbes Hadewisa		
|1130
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|Abbess Matildis		
|1150		
|1155
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|Abbess [[Marie I, Countess of Boulogne|Princess Mary]]
|1155		
|1171
|Daughter of [[King Stephen of England|King Stephen]], abducted and forced to marry.
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|Abbess Juliana		
|1171 		
|1174
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|Abbess Matilad Patric	
|1218		
|1219
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|Abbess Matilda 		
|1218		
|1230
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|Abbess Matilasa de Barbfle
|1230
|1231
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|Abbess Isabel de Nevil			
|1237
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|Abbess Cecilia		
|1238		
|1247
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|Abbess Constancia	
|1247		
|1261
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|Abess Amicia de Sulhere	
|1261		
|1268
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|Abbess Alicia Walerand			
|1269
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|Abbess Phillipa de Stokes	
|1296	
|1307
|was very infirm as Abbess.<ref name=Perkins />
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|Abbess Clementcia de Guildford
|1307	
|1314
|Was very infirm as Abbess.<ref name=Perkins />
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|Abbess Alicia de Wyntershulle	
|1314	
|1315
|whose murder was never solved.<ref name=Perkins />
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|Abbess Sybil Carbonel	
|1315
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|Abbess Johanna Icthe	
|1333
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|[[Black death|Bubonic plague]]
|1349		
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|80% of the nuns died.
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|Abbess Johanna Gerney	
|1349		
|1351
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|Abbess Isabella de Camoys	
|1352	
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|<ref>Born 1396AD, Abbess Isabella was the daughter of [[Ralph de Camoys]], Governor of Windsor and his wife Joan, the daughter of [[Hugh le Despenser, 1st Earl of Winchester|Hugh le Despenser]], [[Earl of Winchester]]. She was sister of [[Thomas de Camoys]], 2nd Baron Camoys.
She was appointed Abbess of Romsey 25 November 1352. She appears in the 1366 Will of the Bishop of Edyndon, and several deeds to the Abbey. She died 1396.</ref><ref>Douglas Richardson, ''Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families,'' 2nd Edition, (Douglas Richardson, 2011) [https://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&dq=Abbess+Isabella+de+Camoys&pg=PA397 page 397].</ref>
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|Abbess Lucy Everard	
|1396
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|Abbess Felicia Aas<ref>Common Pleas, 1415 Trinity term, "Felicia Aas, abbissa de Romesey", plaintiff, fourth entry: http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no618/aCP40no618fronts/IMG_0501.htm</ref>		
|1405		
|1417
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|Abbess Matilda Lovell	
|1417<ref> Notification of her election was sent to H. Bishop of Winchester, 9 Nov. 1417, ''Calendar of Letters Patent'', Henry V, vol. ii, 1416-1422 (London, 1911), p. 125. </ref>
|1462<ref> Licence to elect a new abbess was granted to the convent on 26 April 1462, ''Calendar of Letters Patent'', Edward IV, vol. i, 1461-1467 (London, 1897, p. 182. </ref>
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|Abbess Johanna Brydduys	
|1462	
|1472
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|Abbess Elizabeth Broke	
|1472	
|1502
|Her tenure was tainted by scandal.
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|Abbess Joyce Rowse	
|1502	
|1515
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|Abbess Ann Westbroke	
|1515	
|1523
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|Abbess Elizabeth Ryprose	
|1523	
|1524
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|Dissolution of the Abbey 
|1539
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|<ref>Henry G. D. Liveing, M.A. ''Records of Romsey Abbey: An account of the Benidictine House of Nunies with Notes on the Parish Church and town.(A.D. 907—1558). Compiled from Manuscript and Printed Records'' (WARREN AND SON, LTD., 85, HIGH STREET. 1912) page IIX-X.</ref>

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