Barbara von Absberg

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Barbara von Absberg was abbess of the Obermünster monastery from 1435 to 1456.

Family of origin

Barbara von Absberg comes from the Franconian noble family of Absberg , named after the Middle Franconian Absberg and the former Absberg Castle . According to Johann Gottfried Biedermann , she is the daughter of the knight Heinrich von und zu Absberg and Cunegunda , born in Liechtenstein . Her siblings are Georg, Walburga and Hans. Knight and Doctor Georg von und zu Absberg is hereditary treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire and governor of Brandenburg-Onolzbach , chancellor and country steward . Her sister Walburga was also a canoness - but in the Niedermünster monastery , she died in 1450. Biedermann also lists Barbara as abbess of Niedermünster without giving any details of the year. Barbara probably died in 1456, as the office of abbess was usually granted for life. Heinrich IV. Von Absberg , a close relative of the Absberg zu Rumburg line, was Bishop of Regensburg from 1465 .

literature

  • Johann Gottfried Biedermann : genealogy The Reich Frey immediate knighthood country to Franken praiseworthy local Altmuhl ... . Bayreuth 1748. Plate CLXX. [to be used with caution]
  • Helmut Rischert: The castles in the Anlautertal II: Rumburg castle ruins, in: Collective sheet of the historical association Eichstätt 76 (1983), pp. 6–34. [Much better than Biedermann to the Absbergers in Rumburg]
personal data
SURNAME Absberg, Barbara von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess of Obermünster
DATE OF BIRTH before 1435
DATE OF DEATH after 1456