Gimsøy Abbey (Gimsøy kloster) was a Benedictine monastery located on the eastern end of the island of Klosterøya at Skien in Telemark, Norway. The island...
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Gimsøy or Gimsøya may refer to: Gimsøy, or Gimsøysand, a village in Vågan Municipality in Nordland county, Norway Gimsøy Municipality, a former municipality...
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Frederik Georg Adeler inherited and lived on the large estate at the Gimsøy Abbey with a manor house and headquarters at Klosterøya in Skien. He served...
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also a centre for trading whetstones from Eidsborg (inland Telemark). Gimsøy Abbey was founded in the 12th century. Skien was given formal commercial town...
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was a Norwegian abbess. She was traditionally the first abbess of the Gimsøy Abbey, one of the first convents in Norway, upon its foundation. Baugeid Dagsdatter...
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Hakastein Church was a church under Gimsøy Abbey near Skien in Norway. It is first referred to in a manuscript from 1354. In 2001, archaeologists uncovered...
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also a centre for trading whetstones from Eidsborg (inland Telemark). Gimsøy Abbey was founded in the 12th century. Skien was given formal commercial town...
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Christian III; these include Bakke Abbey, Munkeby Abbey, Tautra Abbey, Nidarholm Abbey, Gimsøy Abbey and Utstein Abbey. Publication is made of two complete...
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probably given during medieval times to the then swampy area by the nuns of Gimsøy Abbey, who went here to collect the shrub pors ("Bog Myrtle"). The last element...
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manor of Algestrup. In Norway, he owned the manor located at the old Gimsøy Abbey in Skien in Bratsberg county. On 25 April 1727, he married Anne Beate...
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