Helena of Hohenzollern
Helena von Hohenzollern (* 1462 , County of Hohenzollern ; † November 11, 1514 in Wurzach ) married. Countess von Waldburg was the mother of Georg III. , the headess of Waldburg-Zeil, and founder of the Maria Rosengarten monastery in Bad Wurzach .
Life
Helene or Helena was the youngest of six children of Jobst Nikolaus I von Hohenzollern (1433–1488) and Agnes von Werdenberg-Heiligenberg (1434–1467). Her eldest brother Friedrich II von Zollern (1451–1505) became bishop of Augsburg in 1486 . The third brother Eitel Friedrich the Younger (1454-1490) was a Dutch admiral . Friedrich Albert († 1483) her fourth sibling fell as an imperial colonel before Utrecht and Friedrich Johann fell as an imperial colonel in the battle of Dendermonde .
She married Johann II von Waldburg-Wolfegg († 1511). In 1488 she gave birth to a child named Georg in Waldsee . He went down in history as "Bauernjörg". Three children, her husband and a daughter-in-law died during Helena's lifetime. On January 8, 1513, she received papal approval to found the Maria Rosengarten monastery in Wurzach . In 1514 she became a nun and first head of the monastery she founded and died in the same year.
In 1936 the nuns administered the first mud baths in the monastery . It existed until 2007, when the city of Bad Wurzach acquired it.
literature
- Joseph Vochezer: History of the princely house of Waldburg in Swabia . Three volumes. Kösel, Kempten 1888–1907 (digitalis: Volume 1 , Volume 2 , Volume 3 )
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| SURNAME | Helena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Helena of Hohenzollern; Helena von Waldburg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Monastery donor, Countess von Waldburg |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1462 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | County of Hohenzollern |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 11, 1514 |
| Place of death | Bad Wurzach |