Beatrix I. (Gandersheim)

Illustration of her grave slab

Beatrix (* 1037 ; † July 13, 1061 ) was the only daughter of Emperor Heinrich III. from his first marriage to Gunhild of Denmark . Beatrix was abbess in Gandersheim Abbey since 1043 and abbess in Quedlinburg Abbey since 1044 .

Life

Beatrix was the only daughter of Emperor Heinrich III at the end of 1037. and his first wife Gunhild born in Italy. Her mother died about six months after she was born.

After the death of her predecessor Adelheid I, she was born on January 14, 1043 at the age of seven by her father Heinrich III. appointed as abbess in Gandersheim. This disregarded the right to vote of the canonesses . On June 24, 1044, she was also ordained abbess of Quedlinburg in Merseburg. She was also the abbess of the Vreden monastery .

In Gandersheim she was the focus of a dispute with the local canonies. They accused her of lending the monastery goods, the proceeds of which should actually serve as maintenance for the canonies, and of having thus led her into economic hardship. Three popes intervened in this dispute, which had been smoldering for years: Leo IX. initially decided in favor of the canons, Victor II later revised the judgment in favor of the abbess. Only Stephan IX. reached a compromise at the end of 1057, which probably looked like the prebend goods of the canonesses could not be lent, but Beatrix could freely dispose of the other property of the monastery and her own goods. The compromise only lasted until Beatrix's death, as the conflict broke out again under her successor, her half-sister Adelheid II .

Beatrix died on July 13, 1061. She was buried in Quedlinburg, but must have been reburied after the fire disaster in the collegiate church in 1070. A leaden leg box, which due to the inscription can be assigned to Beatrix with a high degree of certainty, has been kept in Michaelstein Monastery since around 1161 . In the crypt of the Quedlinburg collegiate church, a tombstone from the time the church was rededicated in 1129 commemorates the abbess.

literature

Thomas Vogtherr: The Salian abbesses of the Quedlinburg imperial monastery. In: From sacerdotium and regnum. Böhlau, Cologne 2002, pp. 405-420, ISBN 3-412-16401-1 .
Kurt Kronenberg : The abbesses of the Reichsstift Gandersheim. Verlag Gandersheimer Kreisblatt, Bad Gandersheim 1981, OCLC 63882981 .
Mechthild Black-Veldtrup : Empress Agnes (1043-1077): Source-critical studies (= Münster historical research. Volume 7). Böhlau, Cologne 1995, ISBN 3-412-02695-6 .
Egon Boshof : The Salier (= Urban pocket books. 387.). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-170-16475-9 .
Gritt Brosowski: Beatrix I, abbess. In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck , Dieter Lent et al. (Ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon - 8th to 18th century . Appelhans Verlag, Braunschweig 2006, ISBN 3-937664-46-7 , p. 70 .

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Individual evidence

↑ Thomas Vogtherr: The Salian abbesses of the Quedlinburg Empire . In: From sacerdotium and regnum . Böhlau, Cologne 2002, pp. 410-412.

predecessor	Office	successor
Adelheid I.	Abbess of Quedlinburg 1044-1061	Adelheid II.

personal data
SURNAME	Beatrix I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Abbess of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg, daughter of Emperor Heinrich III.
DATE OF BIRTH	1037
DATE OF DEATH	July 13, 1061

[1] Thomas Vogtherr: The Salian abbesses of the Quedlinburg Empire . In: From sacerdotium and regnum . Böhlau, Cologne 2002, pp. 410-412.