Fides of blades

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Fides von Klingen († February 28, 1358 in Zurich ) was the abbess of the Fraumünster monastery in Zurich from 1340 to 1358 and thus the mistress of the city.

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Fides was a daughter of the district judge Walter from the Thurgau noble family von Klingen .

The election of Fides von Klingen as abbess of the Fraumünster Monastery on December 14, 1340 was controversial. Her opponent Beatrix von Wolhusen enjoyed the support of some of the sisters, so that there was a double election. Emperor Ludwig IV had the dispute investigated by Berchtold von Greyspach, who decided on December 18, 1341 in favor of Fides.

The legal uncertainty caused by the interregnum caused the city council to appoint three administrators for the abbey property. They created the Liber mancipiorum , a register of the serfs belonging to the monastery . When she finally took office, the new abbess confirmed all interim legal transactions.

The term of office of Fides' von Klingen was marked by increasing financial difficulties and an accompanying loss of power. In 1345 she had to sell the church set of Horgen and St. Peter . Two years later, she sold a piece of land to the Kappel monastery . The loss of power was well advanced by this time. The abbess could only make these sales with the approval of the mayor and the city council.

After the plague raged in Zurich in 1348 , the warlike events that culminated on the night of the murder of Zurich on February 24, 1350 , continued to affect the existing structures. The sieges of Zurich by Albrecht II. In 1351 and by Charles IV. A year later severely curtailed the income of the monastery. In 1357, therefore, the income between the abbess, who was the sole owner of the church for three years, and the chapter with the tithe for the towns of Hirzel , Oberrieden , Horgen, Maschwanden , Käpfnach , Leimbach , Altstetten , Rümlang , Thalacker , Sihlfeld , Maur and Ebmatingen were reorganized .

On January 5, 1358, Pope Innocent VI confirmed . all possessions and privileges to the Fraumünster monastery. Fides von Klingen died on February 28, 1358.

literature

  • Peter Vogelsanger : Zurich and its Fraumünster. An eleven hundred year history (853–1956). Zurich 1994, pp. 173-188.
  • Helvetia Sacra , Division III, The Orders with Benedictine Rule , Volume 1, Part Three. Francke Verlag, Bern 1986, p. 2008.

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personal data
SURNAME Fides of blades
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess Abbess of the Fraumünster Monastery in Zurich
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1358
Place of death Zurich