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I Herrens år 1204 dog Priorinnan Fru Ingegerd, förutnämnde konupgs syster, hvilken under 40 år med kraft styrt detsamma klostret.
- ↑ Swedish Church History Yearbook, Volumes 44-46 (in Swedish). Swedish Church History Association. 1945. p. 247.
Mitt under all oron i landet tryggar abbedissan Ingegerd Sverkersdotter klostrets ekonomiska ställning genom sin godspolitik . Hon är den planerande och drivande kraften vid ny- byggnadsarbetena.
- ↑ Wågman, Oskar (1904). Vreta kloster: historik jämte vägledning vid besök i Vreta kloster kyrka och dess omgifning. P.A. Norstedt & Sönders förlag.
- ↑ Rosborn, Sven. När hände vad i Nordens historia. Lund: Historiska media, 1997.
- ↑ C. R. af Ugglas, 'Ärkebiskopen och priorinnan', Meddelanden från Östergötlands fornminnesförening 1942–44.
