The Abbot (1820) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. A sequel to The Monastery, its action takes place in 1567 and...

one cardinal (John Fisher) and numerous abbots. Among those who were in favour at any given point in Henry's reign, one could usually be identified as...

Europe over the ability to choose and install bishops (investiture) and abbots of monasteries and the pope himself. A series of popes in the 11th and 12th...

Abbot is a town in Piscataquis County, Maine, United States. The population was 650 at the 2020 census. It was named for the treasurer of Bowdoin College...

Henry was always more religiously inclined than was once thought. The chronicler Abbot Suger suggested that the incident was embarrassing for Henry,...

1650–1690 Henry, Duke of Elbeuf, 1661-1748 Philip of Lorraine, Prince of Elbeuf, 1678-1705 Charles of Lorraine, 1685-1705 Louis of Lorraine, Abbot of Orcamp...

investing abbots and bishops, a practice that had been essential for the Imperial Church System since Emperor Otto I. Gregory VII excommunicated Henry IV in...

repeats this prophecy. Henry took this to mean that he would die on crusade. In reality, he died in the Jerusalem Chamber in the abbot's house of Westminster...

"Commendatory Abbot". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 4. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Robinson, I. S., Henry IV of Germany...

(French: [syʒɛʁ]; Latin: Sugerius; c. 1081 – 13 January 1151) was a French abbot and statesman. He was a key advisor to King Louis VI and his son Louis VII...