Agnes von Ahaus

Agnes von Ahaus , also known as Agnes II von Ahaus. von Langerak known, (* around 1385; † December 28, 1467 in Nottuln ) was abbess in Nottuln Abbey .

Life

Agnes von Ahaus came from the Westphalian dynasty of the noble lords of Ahaus . Her parents were Ludolph von Ahaus (bailiff in the service of the bishop of Utrecht) and his wife Johanna. Her sister Margaretha was abbess in Freckenhorst , her half-brother Heinrich Domvikar and devotee of the Devotio moderna . On May 28, 1423 at the latest, she was married to Johann van Langerak, son of Gisbert IV of Langerak; in September 1437 she is mentioned in a document as widowed.

On September 2, 1437, Bishop Heinrich von Moers appointed the widow as abbess of Nottuln Abbey. He thus ended a six-year vacancy, because the predecessor gave up her office in 1431. Agnes had succeeded in helping the dilapidated monastery - if only for a short time - to achieve economic success. In the Münster collegiate feud , she was on the side of the opponents of Bishop Walram von Moers . That's why she was incapacitated by him. However, this had no effect, because she continued to exercise her office. She was a member of the Billerbecker Kaland , a brotherhood for doing good deeds.

With her death, the noble lords of Ahaus died out at the same time.

literature

Volker Tschuschke : The noble lords of Ahaus. A contribution to the history of the Westphalian nobility in the Middle Ages . Edited by Landeskundliches Institut Westmünsterland. 1st edition. Vreden 2077, ISBN 3-937432-12-4 .
Wilhelm Kohl : Diocese of Münster. 8: The (free world) Nottuln women's monastery (= Germania Sacra NF 44). de Gruyter, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-018532-6 ( PDF file ), p. 221 f.

Web links

Agnes von Ahaus person database at Germania Sacra
from Ahaus European family tables

Individual evidence

^ Wilhelm Kohl: The Diocese of Münster 8 (NF 44). published by the Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen. Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG Berlin, ISBN 978-3-11-018532-4 , p. 222.
↑ Volker Tschuschke: The noble lords of Ahaus. A contribution to the history of the Westphalian nobility in the Middle Ages . Edited by Landeskundliches Institut Westmünsterland. 1st edition. Vreden 2077, ISBN 3-937432-12-4 , p. 180.

personal data
SURNAME	Ahaus, Agnes from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Agnes II of Ahaus gnt. from Langerak
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Abbess in Nottuln Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1385
DATE OF DEATH	December 28, 1467
Place of death	Nottuln

[1] Wilhelm Kohl: The Diocese of Münster 8 (NF 44). published by the Max Planck Institute for History, Göttingen. Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG Berlin, ISBN 978-3-11-018532-4 , p. 222.

[2] Volker Tschuschke: The noble lords of Ahaus. A contribution to the history of the Westphalian nobility in the Middle Ages . Edited by Landeskundliches Institut Westmünsterland. 1st edition. Vreden 2077, ISBN 3-937432-12-4 , p. 180.