Agnes von Arnsberg

Agnes von Arnsberg (also Agnes zu Meschede ) (* around 1236 , † April 7, 1306 ) was the last abbess of the women's monastery in Meschede . She was also the abbess of Oedingen Abbey .

Life

Agnes was a daughter of Gottfried III. Count von Arnsberg and his wife Adelheid von Blieskastel.

She directed the fortunes of the Meschede women's monastery for more than 50 years from 1255 to 1306. A number of documents exist from her reign. In 1265 she donated the goods to Stederdorp to the Benninghausen monastery . This was the oldest documentary mention of the village of Stirpe near Erwitte . In 1267 she converted the ministerial property of the knight Florin von Banen into fiefdom. The documents also included the acquisition of the estate in 1268, from which Laer Castle later emerged. She also bought an estate in the Druvethe . This Drüer Hof was where Heinrichsthal is today .

After her death, at the instigation of Archbishop Heinrich von Köln - among other things because of alleged tendencies towards secularization - no new abbess was elected. Instead, the administration facility was entrusted to her brother, Canon Johannes von Arnsberg . A few years later, the women's pen, which had existed since the 9th century, was dissolved and converted into a pen for male canons.

literature

• Franz Ignaz Pieler: Historical news about the Meschede monastery. In: Archive for the history and antiquity of Westphalia. 7, 1838, ZDB -ID 400216-7 , pp. 1–41, digitized in the Google book search.

Web links

• Stiftsgeschichte Meschede ( Memento from January 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive )