Agnes II of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen

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Agnes II von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen (* approx. Summer 1406; † November 18, 1439 ) was abbess of the Gandersheim monastery from 1412 to 1439 .

Life

She was a daughter of Erich I (Braunschweig-Grubenhagen) . As a child she was elected abbess. The Pope later confirmed the election of the minor Agnes, but gave her a dean of the monastery as guardian. From 1425 Agnes issued documents without a guardian. She was buried in the collegiate church.

Act

In connection with a Welfish inheritance and the extinction of the noble lords of Homburg , they transferred Otto II (Braunschweig-Göttingen) castle and town of Gandersheim and the castles Seesen and Stauffenburg , and Wilhelm I (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) the Asseburg , Gifhorn , Burg and City of Lüneburg , Greene Castle , Lüthorst , the half fiefdom of Homburg , Lauenstein Castle and goods belonging to the former county of Wernigerode .

She also took care of the property in Kalkum .

literature

  • Hans Goetting : The Diocese of Hildesheim. Volume 1: The imperial canonical monastery Gandersheim (= Germania sacra. The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. NF 7). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1973, ISBN 3-11-004219-3 , pp. 320–322 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Goetting, p. 111
  2. ^ H. Sudendorf : Document book for the history of the dukes of Braunschweig and Lüneburg and their lands. Part 3: From the year 1357 to the year 1369. Rümpler, Hannover 1862, p. 71.
  3. ↑ Hans Goetting: The Diocese of Hildesheim. Volume 1: The imperial canonical monastery Gandersheim (= Germania sacra. The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. NF 7). de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1973, ISBN 3-11-004219-3 , p. 278.
personal data
SURNAME Agnes II of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess of the Gandersheim Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH around 1406
DATE OF DEATH November 18, 1439