nunneries
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of Nunnery
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In all, before Mexican independence in 1821, of 56 nunneries there were 5 Carmelite convents.
However, a degree of vulnerability may be reflected in laws stating that they should not be forced into nunneries or second marriages against their will.
Carolingian princesses rarely married and were usually sent to nunneries, and it was almost unknown for them to marry foreigners.
Mann, pg. 234 After receiving requests from both Louis IV of Francia and Otto I of Germany, Agapetus granted privileges to monasteries and nunneries within their respective kingdoms.
He quickly sent all of his unmarried sisters to nunneries, to avoid any possible entanglements from overly powerful brothers-in-laws.
The more formal name for these "bokubunniji" was "hokke-metuzai no tera" (meaning "nunneries for eliminating sin by means of the Lotus Sutra").