Gertrude III. from Everstein

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Gertrude III. von Everstein († March 9, 1344 in Gernrode ) was the abbess of the free secular monastery of Gernrode and Frose from 1334 to 1344 . Before being elected the successor to Abbess Jutta von Oesede , she was the provost of the monastery.

Life

Seal of Abbess Gertrud III. from Everstein

Gertrude III. von Everstein came from the family of the Counts of Everstein , who had their headquarters at the Everstein Castle in Polle near Holzminden on the Weser . The Counts of Everstein were an influential dynasty in what is now Lower Saxony towards the end of the 12th and up to the middle of the 13th century , but ultimately could not hold their own against the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg .

Before being elected abbess, she held the office of provostess, as Gertrud was named as such on May 25, 1302 in a document from abbess Irmingard II. The confirmation of the election of the abbess by Pope John XXII. took place on August 3, 1334. This letter speaks of the fact that Gertrud III. is the successor of Jutta von Oesede in the office of abbess. This is important insofar as the chronicler Andreas Popperodt also lists an abbess Hildburg and Otto von Heinemann lists a Hildburg von Wunstorf, which, however, could not have existed in this way.

Gertrude III. died on March 9, 1344 in Gernrode. Shortly before her death, on February 28, 1344, she donated one and a half hooves in Bicklingen for the salvation of her soul. The village of Bicklingen no longer exists today, it is a desert in the northeast of Gernrode. Gertrude IV of Hesse was elected as her successor on March 22, 1344.

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. ↑ Hans K. Schulze: Das Stift Gernrode (...), Böhlau, Cologne 1965, p. 47
  3. ↑ Hans K. Schulze: Das Stift Gernrode (...), Böhlau, Cologne 1965, p. 48

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personal data
SURNAME Gertrude III. from Everstein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess in the St. Cyriakus Abbey in Gernrode
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1344
Place of death Gernrode