Gertrud II of Boventhen

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Gertrud II von Boventhen († July 8, 1324 in Gernrode ) was the abbess of the free secular monastery of Gernrode and Frose from 1317 to 1324 . She is the successor of Abbess Hedwig IV.

Life

Seal of Abbess Gertrud II of Boventhen

Gertrud II von Boventhen came from a noble family with ancestral seat in Bovenden near Göttingen .

Gertrud II had already been in the monastery as a canoness since 1299 and, before she was elected abbess in 1317, held the office of cellar master celleraria . The confirmation of the election of the abbess by Pope John XXII. took place on January 21, 1317.

The abbess got into a dispute with the nobles von Hadmersleben over the patronage rights of the churches in Ströbeck and Siestedt . In order to get their rights recognized by the nobles, they had to give them patronage rights over the church in Ammendorf .

The pen must have found itself in considerable financial problems at this point, because the pen was unable to pay the annual papal recognition interest of 2  silver marks , which the pen had to pay since it was handed over to the papal chair by Gero .

The fortification of a small castle complex in the monastery district of Gernrode, which the Anhalt princes, probably Heinrich I carried out at the expense of the monastery , probably contributed significantly to the problems. The documents show that the construction work for the monastery not only resulted in considerable costs, but that the archive, as well as large parts of the church treasure and many of the relics, were stolen. The fortifications were already so damaged in 1366 that they had to be repaired again.

Gertrud II probably died on July 8th, 1324. Andreas Popperodt gives July 7th, 1324 as the date of her death. He had seen the inscription on the original grave slab. However, the grave has disappeared today. It was located near the other graves of the abbesses in the collegiate church of Gernrode . Gertrud cannot have died on July 7th, 1324, because on July 8th, 1324 she still notarized the foundation of an altar in the collegiate church, and her vigil was celebrated on July 8th. Her successor in office was Jutta von Oesede .

literature

  • Andreas Popperodt: Historia Ecclesiae Gerenrodenses 1560, first version by Johann Christoph Beckmann in Accesiones Historia Anhaltinae 1716 as Annales Gernrodensis .
  • Otto von Heinemann : History of the abbey and description of the collegiate church at Gernrode . HC Huch, Quedlinburg 1877.
  • Hans Hartung: On the past of Gernrode . Carl Mittag, Gernrode 1912.
  • Hans K. Schulze: The Gernrode Abbey . Using a manuscript by Reinhold Specht. With an art history contribution by Günther W. Vorbrodt. (Central German Research Vol. 38), Böhlau, Cologne 1965.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans K. Schulze: Das Stift Gernrode (...), Böhlau, Cologne 1965, p. 47
  2. ↑ Otto von Heinemann: History of the Abbey and Description of the Collegiate Church in Gernrode , HC Huch, Quedlinburg 1877. pp. 20–21.
  3. ↑ Otto von Heinemann: History of the Abbey and Description of the Collegiate Church in Gernrode , HC Huch, Quedlinburg 1877. P. 21.
  4. ^ Klaus Voigtländer: The collegiate church at Gernrode and its restoration 1858 - 1872 . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1980, p. 121.
  5. ↑ Hans K. Schulze: Das Stift Gernrode (...), Böhlau, Cologne 1965, p. 47

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personal data
SURNAME Gertrud II of Boventhen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess in the St. Cyriakus Abbey in Gernrode
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1324
Place of death Gernrode