Adelheid von Woldenberg

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Adelheid von Woldenberg was the first abbess of the St. Aegidii Monastery in Münster . She died in 1208 or 1209.

It came from the Woldenberg family . Burkhard I. von Woldenberg was her brother.

She married Helmold I. von Schwerin . Since he died young, they were left without any descendants.

She inherited goods near Ascheberg (Westphalia) from previous possession of the Billunger . After her brother Ludiger von Woldenberg died around 1203, she gave these goods to the diocese of Münster in 1206 and was later buried in St. Paulus Cathedral (Münster) as a thank you - the only person who did not belong to the cathedral chapter .

After Helmold's untimely death, she did not appear for a few years. Around 1206 she became abbess of the St. Aegidii Monastery in Münster.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Kohl: The Cistercian, later Benedictine convent St. Aegidii in Münster, 2009, p. 270ff
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Kohl: The Cistercian, later Benedictine convent St. Aegidii in Münster, 2009, p. 272
  3. ↑ Westfälische Zeitschrift, Volume 158, 2008, p. 14
  4. ^ Wilhelm Kohl: The Cistercian, later Benedictine convent of St. Aegidii in Münster, 2009, p. 41
  5. ^ Wilhelm Kohl: Die Cisterzienserabtei Marienfeld, 2010, p. 91
personal data
SURNAME Woldenberg, Adelheid from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first abbess of St. Aegidii Monastery in Münster
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1208 or 1209