Agnes Maria of Limburg-Styrum

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Agnes Maria von Limburg-Styrum (* 1631 ; † spring 1646 ) was elected abbess at Freckenhorst Abbey , but could not take office because of the adverse conditions.

Life

Origin and family

Agnes Maria von Limburg-Styrum grew up as the daughter of Count Hermann Otto von Limburg-Styrum (1592–1644) and his wife Countess Anna Margaretha Spies von Büllesheim in an ancient Westphalian noble family . Her siblings were Otto , Adolf Ernst , Moritz and Sophie Elisabeth, who was married to Ferdinand Gottfried von Velen . The grandparents were Count Jobst von Limburg-Styrum and Countess Maria von Schauenburg and Holstein-Pinneberg as well as Count Adam Hermann Spies von Büllesheim and Franziska von Münster, who did not come from a noble family.

Information about the denomination of Agnes Maria was baptized is not available. Her younger sister Sophie Elisabeth was baptized Lutheran in Deventer in September 1632 .

Controversial election process and subsequent uncertainties

After the death of the abbess Agnes von Limburg-Stirum , one of Agnes Maria's great-aunt, considerable difficulties arose with the question of succession. In the election on March 22, 1645, Agnes Maria received ten votes, while her rival Claudia Seraphica von Wolkenstein-Rodeneck received nine votes. The election supervisor, Domdechant Bernhard von Mallinckrodt, refused to publish an election record and did not allow a notary to certify the election. Finally he asked the elector-archbishop Ferdinand to confirm the defeated Claudia Seraphica as elected abbess. The reasons for the refusal are the young age (13 years), the Lutheran denomination and the lack of aristocratic descent of the applicant. Three days after the election, Claudia Seraphica stood in front of the gates, and with her helpers gained force access and, together with the Canon von Landsberg, took possession of the abbey to force the elector to make a decision. He signed the commission on April 5, 1645. Agnes Maria submitted an official protest on May 6, 1645.

With his bull of September 30, 1645, Pope Innocent X appointed the nuncio Fabio Chigi , who was staying in Münster for the negotiations on the Peace of Westphalia , as well as the cathedral deacons of Münster and Cologne as his commissioners in order to bring Claudia Seraphica into possession of the abbey . After she swore the oath of faith with the declaration of allegiance to the Pope and signed the surrender , the contentious matter was closed.

Agnes Maria had been sick for a long time and died at the age of 15 in the spring of 1646 without having exercised the office of abbess.

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SURNAME Limburg-Styrum, Agnes Maria von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION elected abbess at Freckenhorst Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH 1631
DATE OF DEATH between March 1646 and June 1646