Irmina von Oeren

Today's view of the former St. Irminen Monastery (formerly Oeren) in Trier

Echternach monastery church

Irmina von Oeren , also Irmina von Trier , († 704/710), was the wife of Hugobert from the Hugobertiner family , who presumably carried the title of Seneschal and Count Palatine . Her parents are not known, even if she was mistakenly listed in the Trier tradition as the daughter of the Merovingian king Dagobert I at least since the 11th century . The only thing that is certain is that she belonged to one of the powerful families in Australia , which was closely connected to the Carolingians , and that she is one of Charlemagne's ancestors .

She was the mother of

• Plectrudis , 691/717 attested, the first wife of Pippin the Middle and founder of the monastery of St. Maria im Kapitol in Cologne
• Adela von Pfalzel (* around 660; † around 735) founder of the women's monastery in Pfalzel
• Regintrud that the Duke in a second marriage after the death of her first husband Theodbert of Bavaria married
• Chrodelind
• Bertrada the Elder (* around 670; † after 721), the founder of the Prüm Abbey and mother of Count Heribert von Laon , who became the father of Bertrada the Younger , who in turn is the mother of Charlemagne .

After Hugobert's death in 697, Irmina von Oeren was the co-founder of the Echternach monastery , the foundations of which she laid in 697/698 through a donation together with Basin , the bishop of Trier and his nephew Liutwin , and which she entrusted to Willibrord .

She was the second abbess of the women's monastery Oeren (originally St. Marien, later renamed St. Irminen) in Trier . The Trier tradition erroneously names her as the founder of this monastery.

The monastery was founded between 635 and 650 under Bishop Modoald in the facilities of the Roman granaries ( horrea - which later became Oeren ) on the right bank of the Moselle . The first abbess was Modesta von Oeren . Modesta belonged to the Austrasian nobility. Modesta was friends with Gertrud von Nivelles and Chlodulf , Bishop of Metz.

Irmina died between 704 and 710, probably in late 705 or early 706, since on May 13, 706 Willibrord placed Echternach under the rule and protection of Pippin the Middle. On the other hand, it should at December 24 708 White Castle in Alsace have been buried where still in the 15th century , the corpus integrum sce. Yrmene virginis, filie Dagoberti regis was counted among the relics .

Web links

Commons : Irmina von Oeren  - Collection of Images

• Irmina von Oeren
• Entry on Abbey of Sankt Irminen (Ören) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .

literature

• Hans Hubert Anton : Irmina, abbess (7th century). In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages . Volume 5: Hiera means to Lucania. Artemis & Winkler, Munich et al. 1991, ISBN 3-7608-8905-0 , Sp. 662.
• Edith Ennen : Women in the Middle Ages. 5th, revised and expanded edition. Beck, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-406-37799-8 , pp. 56-57.
• Eduard Hlawitschka : The ancestors of Charlemagne. In: Wolfgang Braunfels : Charlemagne. Life's work and afterlife. Volume 1: Helmut Beumann (Ed.): Personality and History. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1965, pp. 51–82, here p. 75.
• Franz Xaver Kraus :  Irmina . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 584 f.
• Matthias Werner : Noble families around the early Carolingians. The relationship of Irminas von Oeren and Adelas von Pfalzel. Studies of the history of people on the early medieval leadership in the Maas-Mosel area (= lectures and research. Special volume 28). Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1982, ISBN 3-7995-6688-0 .
• Jennifer Striewski: Irmina von Trier (died between 706 and 709), abbess and saint. 2010 . On the Rhineland History portal of the Rhineland Regional Association . Retrieved January 24, 2015.
• Klaus-Gunther Wesseling :  Irmina von Oeren. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1336.