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The office of abbess is of considerable social dignity, and in the past, was sometimes filled by princesses of the reigning houses. [2] Until the dissolution of Holy Roman Empire and mediatisation of smaller imperial fiefs by Napoleon, the evangelical Abbess of Quedlinburg was also per officio the head of that reichsunmittelbar state.
Hathumoda (840 – November 874) was a Saxon noblewoman who became the first abbess of Gandersheim.Her family, the Liudolfings, founded the Gandersheim Abbey, and she was cloistered since childhood.
"Hot Legs" is a single by Rod Stewart released in 1978 as the second single from his 1977 album Foot Loose & Fancy Free. The single performed moderately on the Billboard Hot 100 , reaching number 28, but performed better on the UK Singles Chart , peaking at number 5.
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The last Catholic abbess and the first Lutheran abbess. Daughter of Bodo VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode, and Anna von Eppenstein. House of Stolberg: 29 Elisabeth II 1542- 20 July 1584: 1574–1584 Daughter of Count Ulrich of Regenstein-Blankenburg and Magdalena of Stolberg. House of Regenstein: 30 Anna III 3 April 1565-12 May 1601: 1584–1601
She became a nun and died as an abbess of the monastery Himmelskron. [8] A white lady ghost reportedly appeared in 1486, 1540, 1554 and 1677 as a harbinger of misfortune. [9] A variation of the tale holds that the white lady of the Plassenburg is the unfortunate widow Bertha of Rosenberg from Bohemia, overthrown by the heathen Perchta. [10]
According to Eric Stewart, in the 2009 BBC radio documentary The Record Producers, the band's name came about because "there was a lovely girl at the time, a receptionist called Kathy, and she used to wear these hot pants, and we always used to call her 'hot legs', and so we thought we'll call the group Hotlegs".