Ida von Arnsberg

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Ida von Arnsberg (also Jutta von Arnsberg ) (* around 1103 in Arnsberg ; † after 1154) was married to Gottfried von Cappenberg in her first marriage and joined the Premonstratensian order at his will . After his death she married Gottfried von Cuyk and became the founder of the new line of the Counts of Arnsberg .

Life

She was the only daughter of Count Friedrich von Arnsberg and the mother Adelheid von Limburg, a daughter of Duke Heinrich I. As such, she was the heiress of the County of Arnsberg. She was married to Gottfried von Cappenberg when she was still very young, around 1120. He was the founder of the Premonstratensian Monastery of Cappenberg . He was only able to convince his brother Otto and his wife of these plans with difficulty . Part of the possessions came from the marriage estate. Ida is therefore considered to be a co-founder of the Cappenberg Monastery. The founding also met with considerable, sometimes violent resistance from Count Friedrich, who had seen Gottfried as his successor. The Vita Gottfried reports, for example, that a nobleman, probably on Friedrich's orders, had abducted Ida for a time. After the death of Frederick, a convent for women was set up for Ida and his sisters, including Gerberga von Cappenberg , in the immediate vicinity of the Cappenberg monastery and connected to it as a double monastery . This made Ida one of the first Premonstratensian women in Germany.

Older research still assumed that Ida remained faithful to the spiritual life even after Gottfried's death and eventually became abbess of Herford Abbey . However, this is likely to be a mix-up with her daughter.

Today it is actually undisputed that Ida left the monastery after the death of her first husband and after Emperor Lothar III. had given his consent, Gottfried von Cuyk married. It is possible that Norbert von Xanten , who played a central role in the founding of Cappenberg and at the same time knew the Cuyk family well, influenced this.

At the time of the second marriage, Ida was about twenty years old. With Gottfried von Cuyk she founded the newer line of the Counts of Arnsberg-Cuyk. Count Heinrich I von Arnsberg emerged from the marriage. The daughter Adelheid married Count Eberhard I. von Altena. The daughter Jutta was abbess of Herford Abbey. Friedrich II. Was the founder of the branch line of the noblemen of Arnsberg. A daughter who was not known by name married Count Hermann II von Virneburg.

literature

  • Bruno Krings: The Premonstratensians and their female branch. In: Irene Crusius , Helmut Flachenecker (ed.): Studies on the Premonstratensian Order (= publications of the Max Planck Institute for History 185 = studies on Germania Sacra 25). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-525-35183-6 , pp. 77-106.
  • Edeltraud Klueting : The monastery landscape of the Duchy of Westphalia in the High Middle Ages. In: Harm Klueting (Ed.): The Duchy of Westphalia. Volume 1: The Electorate of Cologne Duchy of Westphalia from the beginnings of Cologne rule in southern Westphalia to secularization in 1803. Aschendorff, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-402-12827-5 , pp. 55-100, here pp. 74f.
  • Paul Leidinger : The Counts of Werl and Werl-Arnsberg (approx. 980–1124): Genealogy and aspects of their political history in the Ottonian and Salian times. In: Harm Klueting (Ed.): The Duchy of Westphalia. Volume 1: The Electorate of Cologne Duchy of Westphalia from the beginnings of Cologne rule in southern Westphalia to secularization in 1803. Aschendorff, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-402-12827-5 , pp. 119-170, here pp. 151f., P 169f.
  • Blessed Godfrey of Kappenberg and Jutta of Arnsberg. In: Ferdinand Holböck : Married Saints and Blesseds. Through the Centuries. Ignatius Press, San Francisco 2002, ISBN 0-89870-843-5 , pp. 104f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. for example Nathalie Kruppa: Memory of a Count. Adolf IV von Schaumburg and his memoria. In: Nathalie Kruppa (Hrsg.): Nobles, donors, monks. On the relationship between monasteries and medieval nobility. Göttingen 2007, p. 217
personal data
SURNAME Ida von Arnsberg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jutta von Arnsberg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Co-founder of the Cappenberg Monastery and founder of the newer line of the Counts of Arnsberg
DATE OF BIRTH around 1103
PLACE OF BIRTH Arnsberg
DATE OF DEATH after 1154