Théorade

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Théorade

daughter of Charlemagne

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…and of which Charlemagne’s daughter Théorade may have been an early abbess. Héloïse, of the tragic Héloïse-Abelard romance, became prioress of the convent about 1118, but she was expelled in 1129, and the convent was made into a monastery. Enshrined in the monastery’s Church of Saint-Denis is the putative seamless…
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…and of which Charlemagne’s daughter Théorade may have been an early abbess. Héloïse, of the tragic Héloïse-Abelard romance, became prioress of the convent about 1118, but she was expelled in 1129, and the convent was made into a monastery. Enshrined in the monastery’s Church of Saint-Denis is the putative seamless…
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