Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . CHRISTCHUUCH : THE RINGINO-ROOM 418 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Christchurch some of whom were themselves of the Hnoage of Saxon kings. Marivanna, alady of noble blood and exemplary piety, was the first abbess, and her dayswere those of peace. Stormy times distm-bed the reign of her successor Elwina,for the troublesome Dane and his warlike marauders pushed up the Test as far asRomsey, and pillaged the abbey. The abbess and her nuns, having received, as the. legend goes, supernatural forewarning of the attack,
Cathedrals, abbeys and churches of England and Wales : descriptive, historical, pictorial . CHRISTCHUUCH : THE RINGINO-ROOM 418 ABBEYS AND CHURCHES. [Christchurch some of whom were themselves of the Hnoage of Saxon kings. Marivanna, alady of noble blood and exemplary piety, was the first abbess, and her dayswere those of peace. Stormy times distm-bed the reign of her successor Elwina,for the troublesome Dane and his warlike marauders pushed up the Test as far asRomsey, and pillaged the abbey. The abbess and her nuns, having received, as the. legend goes, supernatural forewarning of the attack, fled in the nick of timeacross country to Winchester, taking with them such holy relics as were portable. Matilda, queen of Henry I., was educated at Romsey Abbey under thecharge of her aunt, the abbess Christina. Later, a daughter of King Stephenwas head of the nunnery. This abbess was Countess of Boulogne, and it may notImve been forgotten that she was the occasion of a great media3val scandal bydefying the Pope and marrying a son of the Count of Flanders, in defiance ofmonastic vows, and without troubling his Holiness the Pope for a high-handed proceeding was doubtless instigated and helped on to its denoue-ment by Henry H., as a telling point in his course of opposition to the trouble-some Thomas a Bccket. For ten years the count and his abbess wife survivedexcommunication and the bitter denunciation of the Church, but the Church was AND RoMSET.] A MEDIEVAL SCAXDAL. 419 in the cud too strong for them, and they s
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