Another of the early abbots, Wolfhold, established a convent for the education of girls of noble family, and the educational tradition has remained strong ever since.

They were the effigies of three of the early abbots; the epitaphs were entirely effaced; the names alone remained, having no doubt been renewed in later times.

The monks and abbot attributed their situation in 1328 to financial mismanagement by earlier abbots, who had leased out many of the abbey's estates to tenants, often at poor terms.

Whether the early abbot there named Saint Dunod was his father is unclear.

While it's hard to imagine the earlier abbot's welcoming his successor's interventions, he would have no doubt understood the impulse.

It was given this name by Enchin, one of the earliest abbots of the Tendai Sect.

Its funding was provided by Christopher Hills and its early abbot was Karma Thinley Rinpoche.

Few of its early abbots are known and its history is more generally covered by a cloud of obscurity.

Caldey Island is called in the Welsh language, Ynys Byr, after an early abbot of the sixth century.

Saint Colmán mac Luacháin was an early Irish abbot (fl.