Agnes von Wittelsbach

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Agnes von Wittelsbach , also Agnes von Bayern (* 1335 or 1345; † November 11, 1352 in Munich ) was a Bavarian princess from the house of Wittelsbach and Clarissin in Munich.

Life

Madonna which Ludwig the Bavarian gave to the St. Jakob monastery; probably on the occasion of his daughter Agnes joining there

Agnes was a daughter of Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria and a cousin of Elector Ruprecht I of the Palatinate . Your year of birth is unclear. It is certain that 1338 was the time she entered the monastery of Sankt Jakob am Anger and her death there in 1352.

She was presumably given there as a child for upbringing or training and then accepted into the community as a novice . The St. Jakob monastery had a Madonna figure that is now in the Bavarian National Museum. Traditionally, it was seen as a gift from Ludwig the Bavarian, which was probably made on the occasion of his daughter Agnes joining there.

1345 is also mentioned as the year of birth of Agnes, which is probably due to a typographical error that first appeared in 1424. Since the entry into the order in 1338 would have been impossible, historians used to assume that the emperor's daughters were two nuns named Agnes and referred to them as Agnes I and Agnes II. As a result, according to tradition, Agnes was sometimes a child on her death, but sometimes appears as a young woman.

Magnus Jocham's Bavarian collection of saints Bavaria Sancta reported in 1861 with reference to older sources (Volume 2, Chapter 170, pp. 292–294) that "Agnes was distinguished by well-being and beauty" , which is why the court and the rulers demanded a return to the world would have. When they tried to take her out of the monastery by force, she fled to the church, embraced the holy of holies exposed in the monstrance and implored Christ not to allow her to be taken away from the convent. This scene was later shown pictorially.

Soon after this event, she would have stigmatized , in the form of large, purulent ulcers on the five sites of Jesus' wounds. Therefore, Agnes was finally left in the monastery, where she died on November 11, 1352, at a young age, even before she had made her profession . She was buried in the choir of the monastery church.

Burial place and relics

1672 there was a grave opening and according to the Bavaria Sancta have been doing to "spread throughout the Church and throughout the monastery building a wonderfully sweet savor." Elector Maximilian II. Emanuel suggested in 1701 in Rome her beatification on, as well as the its in the same monastery, in reputation of Holiness , deceased relative of Princess Barbara of Bavaria (1454–1472).

Grave site, Wittelsbach crypt, Frauenkirche Munich

In 1703, the bones of both Wittelsbach princesses were united in a new coffin. When the St. Jakob am Anger monastery was dissolved at the beginning of the 19th century, the remains of the Clarissess Maria Anna of Bavaria , who died here in 1750, were also placed in the coffin. In 1809, on the orders of King Max I Joseph, it was transferred to the princely crypt of the Frauenkirche in Munich .

A metal plate was attached to it with the following inscription:

" Bones of Clarissinen am Anger, from the House of Bavaria, which were once recovered in individual coffins in the monastery after the death of individuals, but now on the order of the king, were collected in this one coffin and transferred to this church February 1809 "

The three Wittelsbach women from the Angerkloster are now lying in a communal grave and are recorded on the same modern grave plate. For Princess Agnes, the presumably wrong year of birth 1345 appears there, taken from the coffin inscription for 1809.

literature

Princess Agnes hugs the monstrance in the monastery church St. Jakob am Anger, Munich. Depiction of the most famous scene from her life story, around 1850
  • Johann E. Stadler, JN Ginal, Franz Josef Heim (Eds.): Complete Lexicon of Saints . Volume 1. Augsburg 1858–1882, p. 84. New edition: Directmedia Publishing, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-89853-206-2 .
  • Lexicon for theology and the church . Volume 1. Herder, Freiburg 1930, p. 197.
  • Ludwig Rosenberger: Bavaria Sancta. Bavarian legend of saints . Pfeiffer, Munich 1948, p. 228.
  • Jakob Torsy: Lexicon of the German saints, blessed, venerable and godly . Bachem, Cologne 1959, p. 18.
  • Ludwig Auer: You lived for God. Saints legends . 9th edition. Auer, Donauwörth 1977, ISBN 3-403-00004-4 .
  • Patricia Healy Wasyliw: Martyrdom, Murder, and Magic: Child Saints and Their Cults in Medieval Europe , 2008, p. 99 u. 100, ISBN 0820427640 ; (Digital scan)

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Journal for Bavarian State History , Volume 65, 2002, p. 401, (detail scan)
  2. ^ Robert Suckale: The court art of Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria. Munich 1993, p. 254, (detail scan)
  3. Martin Clauss: Ludwig IV. The Bavarian. Duke, King, Emperor. Regensburg 2014, p. 13. Stefanie Dick: Margarete von Hennegau. In: Amalie Fößel (Ed.): The Empresses of the Middle Ages. Regensburg 2011, pp. 249–270, here: p. 250.
  4. ^ Robert Suckale: The court art of Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria. Munich 1993, p. 254; (Detail scan)
  5. Walter Brandmüller : Handbook of Bavarian Church History: From the split in faith to secularization , EOS Verlag, 1993, p. 306, ISBN 3880966729 ; (Detail scan)
  6. ^ Anton Mayer: The cathedral church to UL Frau in Munich , Munich 1868, p. 438; (Digital scan)