Eleanor of Montfort

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Coat of arms of Eleonore von Montfort (top center) on the title page of the first repertory of the monastery archives of the aristocratic Buchau women's monastery, written in 1605 by the monastery secretary Gabriel Leuthold

Eleonore von Montfort († May 24, 1610 ) was an abbess of the free worldly Buchau women's monastery in what is now Bad Buchau am Federsee .

Life

Eleonore was the daughter of Hugo von Montfort and Magdalena von Schwarzenberg . Her aunt Margarete von Montfort , a sister of her father, was abbess of the monastery from 1540 to 1556. She was elected abbess on July 21, 1594 by the chapter. In the same year she compared herself with the community of Tiefenbach with regard to the monastery property. During the rest of her reign, she performed the usual acts of an abbess. In 1605 she set an anniversary date on May 25th of the respective year.

She died on May 24, 1610.

literature

  • Bernhard Theil: The free worldly women's monastery Buchau am Federsee . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History (=  Germania Sacra . NF 32). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-014214-7 , pp. 233-234 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theil, p. 233
  2. ^ Theil, p. 234
predecessor Office Successor
Maria Jacoba von Schwarzenberg Abbess of Buchau
1596–1610 		Katharina von Spaur
personal data
SURNAME Montfort, Eleanor of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess of the Buchau women's monastery
DATE OF BIRTH 16th Century
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1610