List of the abbesses of Gandersheim

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The following persons were abbesses of the imperial monastery in Gandersheim :

Abbots. Surname from to
1. Hathumod 852 874
2. Gerberga I. 874 896/7
3. Christina I. 896/7 919
4th Liutgard I. 919 923
5. Hrotsuit (Rotsuita) 923 933
6th Wendelgard (Windilgardis, Wildigrat) 933 949
7th Gerberga II. (Gerbirg, Gerburg) 949 1001
8th. Sophia I. 1001 1039
9. Adelheid I. 1039 1043
10. Beatrix I. 1044 1061
11. Adelheid II. 1061 1096
12. Adelheid III. 1096 1104
13. Frederun (Vrederun) 1104 1111
14th Agnes I. 1111 1125
15th Bertha I. 1126 1130
16. Liutgard II. 1130/31 1152
17th Adelheid IV of Sommerschenburg 1152/53 1184
18th Adelheid V of Hesse 1184 1196
19th Mechthild I. von Wohldenberg 1196 1223
20th Bertha II. 1223 1252
21st Margareta I of Plesse 1253 1305
22nd Mechthild II of Wohldenberg 1305 1316
23. Sophia II. Von Büren, b. from Bilstein 1317 1331
24. Jutta von Schwalenberg 1331 1357
25th Ermegardis from Schwalenberg 1357 1358
26th Lutgard III. from Hammerstein 1359 1402
27. Sophia III. from Braunschweig-Lüneburg 1402 1412
28. Agnes II of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen 1412 1439
29 Elisabeth I of Dorstadt 1439
30th Elisabeth II of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen 1439 1452
31. Sophia IV of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen 1452/1467 1485
32. Walburg von Spiegelberg , counter-abbess 1452 1467
33. Agnes III from Anhalt 1485 1504
34. Gertrud von Regenstein and Blankenburg 1504 1531
35. Katharina von Hohenstein , counter-abbess 1504 1536
36. Maria of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel 1532 1539
37. Clara von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel 1539 1547
38. Magdalena of Chlum 1547 1577
39. Margaret II of Chlum 1577 1589
40. Elizabeth III von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , counter-abbess 1577 1582
41. Margaret III. von Warberg , counter-abbess 1582 1587
42. Anna Erika von Waldeck 1589 1611
43. Dorothea Augusta of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel 1611 1626
44. Katharina Elisabeth of Oldenburg and Delmenhorst 1626 1649
45. Maria Sabina zu Solms-Lich 1650 1665
46. Dorothea Hedwig of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Norburg 1665 1678
47. Christine Sophie from Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel 1678 1681
48. Christina II of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1681 1693
49. Henriette Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel 1693 1712
50. Marie Elisabeth of Mecklenburg 1712 1713
51. Elisabeth IV of Saxe-Meiningen 1713 1766
52. Therese von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel 1767 1778
53. Auguste Dorothea of ​​Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel 1778 1810

literature

  • Klaus Gereon Beuckers : Imperial Abbesses. Comments on the family positioning of the Ottonian abbesses in Quedlinburg, Gandersheim and Essen. In: Thomas Schilp (Ed.): Women build Europe. International links of the Essen women's monastery. (= Essen research on the women's foundation. Vol. 9). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8375-0672-3 , pp. 65-88.
  • Martin Hoernes, Hedwig Röckelein (eds.): Gandersheim and Essen. Comparative studies on Saxon women's colleges. (= Essen research on the women's foundation. Vol. 4). Klartext-Verlag, Essen 2006, ISBN 3-89861-510-3 .
  • Hans Goetting : The diocese of Hildesheim 1: The imperial canonical monastery Gandersheim (= Germania Sacra NF 7 ). Berlin / New York 1973, ISBN 978-3-11-004219-1 . Digitized

Remarks

  1. ^ Family von Regenstein (noble family)
  2. ↑ She converted to Catholicism and married Christoph von Rantzau in 1679