Agnes I. (Gandersheim)

Agnes (* 1090, † 29. December 1125 in Quedlinburg ) was one of three daughters of the Polish Duke Władysław I Herman and his wife Judith , a sister Emperor Henry IV. Agnes was like her aunts Beatrix and Adelheid abbess of pins Gandersheim and Quedlinburg .

Life

Certainly she has been recorded as abbess in Gandersheim Abbey since 1111, possibly she was previously abbess in Quedlinburg, because the Polish Chronicle of Gallus Anonymus , which was probably completed before 1110, describes her as a member of the clergy.

About their official leadership in the two pins are not known, but one can assume that they have the position of her cousin, Emperor Henry V represented in Saxony, because as this was her on the Council of Reims in 1119 by Pope Callistus II. Banished .

She died on December 29, 1125 in Quedlinburg.

literature

• Thomas Vogtherr : The Salian abbesses of the Quedlinburg imperial monastery. In: From sacerdotium and regnum. Spiritual and secular violence in the early and high Middle Ages. Festschrift for Egon Boshof on his 65th birthday (= Passau historical research. Vol. 12). Böhlau, Cologne et al. 2002, ISBN 3-412-16401-1 , pp. 405-420.
• Kurt Kronenberg : The abbesses of the Reichsstift Gandersheim. Publishing house Gandersheimer Kreisblatt, Bad Gandersheim 1981.

Predecessors	Office	Successors
Eilica	Abbess of Quedlinburg 1111–1125	Gerberga
Frederun	Abbess of Gandersheim 1111–1125	Bertha I.