Beatrix II. (Quedlinburg)

Beatrix II. Von Winzenburg († April 2, 1160 ) was abbess of Heerse from 1123 and additionally from 1138 the eighth abbess of the St. Servatius monastery in Quedlinburg (there the second with the name Beatrix ).

Life

Beatrix was a daughter of Count Hermann von Winzenburg and his second wife Hedwig. She is mentioned around the year 1123 as abbess of the imperial women's monastery in Heerse near Paderborn. In 1138 she was ordained abbess of the women's monastery in Quedlinburg and was involved in the founding of the Cistercian monastery Michaelstein near Blankenburg as a branch of the Altenkampen monastery from 1139 to 1147 . She was supported in this by the counts of Blankenburg-Regenstein. First, in 1139, Beatrix approved by Count Burchard von Blankenburg the donation of larger lands on Michaelstein to the “Volkmarsbruderschaft”. 1152 confirmed at their instigation Pope Eugene III. the conversion of the Quedlinburg Wiperti Church into a Premonstratensian monastery . There is a bracteate on which she is depicted, sitting with a lily apple and a hand blessing between two nuns on a wall. In 1147 she transferred these possessions with the approval of Pope Innocent II and Bishop Rudolf I of Halberstadt and founded a Cistercian convent initially settled by brothers from Altenkampen. In the 1160s, the convent moved to Evergodesrode and founded the (Neu-) Michaelstein monastery there.

literature

• Manfred Mehl: The coins of the Quedlinburg Abbey. Pp. 148–149: Abbess Beatrix II. Countess of Winzenburg 1138–1160. Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-933-42002-4 .
• Birgit Hoffmann: Beatrix II of Winzenburg, 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. 70-71 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michaelstein Monastery. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on harzpoint.de 
2. ↑ monastic history on museum.kloster-michaelstein.de
3. ↑ 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. 70-71 .

predecessor	Office	Successor
Gerberga	Abbess of Quedlinburg 1138–1160	Meregart