Barbara of Bavaria
Barbara von Bayern (born June 9, 1454 in Munich ; † June 24, 1472 ibid) was a princess of Bavaria-Munich from the house of Wittelsbach and a clarissess in Munich.
Life
She was a daughter of the Bavarian Duke Albrechts the Pious (1401–1460) and his wife Anna (1420–1474), daughter of Duke Erich I of Braunschweig-Grubenhagen .
In 1460 Barbara was given up for education in the Poor Clare Monastery of Sankt Jakob am Anger in Munich .
The princess decided to live as a nun and refused to marry. In 1470 she entered the Jacobean monastery as a clarissess.
There she died in 1472 in the reputation of holiness and was buried in the choir of the monastery church, in front of the sacrament altar. There was a strong contemporary worship, but it is no longer alive today. The beatification process has ended.
Her relative Princess Agnes of Bavaria († 1352), a daughter of Emperor Ludwig IV , who had died here as a student and stigmatized , was already resting in the convent . In 1703, the bones of both Wittelsbach princesses were united in a new coffin. When the monastery was dissolved at the beginning of the 19th century, the remains of Clarissess Maria Anna von Bayern , 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. In the case of Barbara von Bayern, it was also noted that she had died in the reputation of holiness . Magnus Jocham records in the Bavarian collection of saints Bavaria Sancta in 1861 (Volume 2, Chapter 174, p. 326) that when the grave was opened in St. Jakob's monastery (probably 1703) a lovely scent emerged from it.
literature
- Christian Häutle: Genealogy of the illustrious parent company Wittelsbach , Munich, 1870, p. 12 and 32; (Digital scan)
- Gustav von Hasselholdt-Stockheim: Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria and his time , Volume 1, 1st section, p. 330, Leipzig, 1865; (Digital scan)
- Karl Heinz Reger: Bavaria's princesses sold , 1988, ISBN 3778733060 , p. 74 ( table of contents of the book)
Web links
- Article in the Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon , Volume XIV (1998) column 743; (Online view) ( Memento from June 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Entry on Barbara von Bayern in the Complete Lexicon of Saints , Volume 1., Augsburg 1858, p. 384; (Online view)
- Article on the Poor Clares , in the Bavarian Historical Lexicon , with a mention of Barbara von Bayern (online view)
- Genealogical page about the person
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website on stigmatized people, with its own section on Agnes von Bayern ( memento of the original from October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Anton Mayer: The cathedral church to UL Frau in Munich , Munich 1868, p. 438; (Digital scan)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barbara of Bavaria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bavarian princess and clarissess |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 9, 1454 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1472 |
| Place of death | Munich |