Dorothea of ​​Brandenburg (1471–1520)

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Dorothea von Brandenburg (born May 12, 1471 in Berlin , † February 13, 1520 in Bamberg ) was a princess of Brandenburg and abbess in the Poor Clare Monastery in Bamberg .

Life

Dorothea was a daughter of the Brandenburg Elector Albrecht Achilles (1414–1486) from his second marriage to Anna (1436–1512), daughter of Elector Friedrich II of Saxony .

After she was temporarily considered by her father as the wife of King Wladislaw II of Bohemia , who was dissatisfied with his marriage to Dorothea's widowed sister Barbara , in 1485, Archduke Maximilian negotiated unsuccessfully with Albrecht Achilles to promote his election Hand of Dorothea.

Dorothea first lived with her mother in Neustadt an der Aisch and then entered the Klara Monastery in Bamberg in 1489 or 1492, where she became abbess in 1498. In 1506 she resigned her office as abbess. For the handover to her successor Brigitta Stephan, an economic inventory of the monastery was recorded in a document. The work and reputation of the Brandenburg abbess continued to have an impact 30 years after her death, when it saved the monastery from attacks in the Second Margrave War .

Dorothea was buried in the monastery church of the abbey. As an abbess, she depicted her grave slab in relief with a lily, a book and a rosary. In 1765, however, the grave slab was so worn that you could just read the name.

literature

  • Gerhard Pfeiffer, Alfred Wendehorst (Ed.): Fränkische Lebensbilder , Volume 12 in publications of the Society for Franconian History, Degener, 1986, p. 72 ff.
  • Pius Wittmann: On the history of the St. Klara monastery in Bamberg and its abbess Dorothea, Margravine of Brandenburg, daughter of the progenitor of the German imperial family , Fuller, 1890

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Wiesflecker: Kaiser Maximilian I .: the empire, Austria and Europe at the turn of the modern age , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1971, p. 469
  2. ^ Max Döllner history of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch until 1933. Ph. CW Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1950. (New edition 1978 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Ph. CW Schmidt Neustadt an der Aisch publishing house 1828-1978. ) Pp. 52 and 199 .
  3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2015 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wikommverlag.de
  4. ^ Heinrich Kreisel, Michael Petzet, Tilmann Breuer, Reinhard Gutbier: Stadt Bamberg, Innere Inselstadt , Volume 7, in Die Kunstdenkmäler von Oberfranken , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2003, p. 190
personal data
SURNAME Dorothea of ​​Brandenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess in the Poor Clare Monastery in Bamberg
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1471
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1520
Place of death Bamberg