Isentrud von Hörselgau
Isentrud von Hörselgau († after 1235) was one of the women in the wake of Elisabeth of Thuringia and one of the essential witnesses in her canonization process . She came from a Thuringian ministerial family and was added to the Hungarian king's daughter Elisabeth as a court lady when she married the Thuringian landgrave Ludwig von Thuringia at the age of fourteen .
life and work
Isentrud von Hörselgau remained a confidante of Elisabeth of Thuringia until the end of her life. Only the last three years of her life, in which Elisabeth von Thuringia worked as a simple hospital nurse in the Franziskushospital she founded in Marburg, she did not share with her mistress. However, they stayed in contact with each other. Isentrud von Hörselgau would probably have shared her mistress' life as a hospital nurse, but Elisabeth von Thuringia's spiritual pastor Konrad von Marburg prevented that because he was concerned that Elisabeth would be reminded of her once magnificent life by her confidante.
Isentrud von Hörselgau has gone down in history because her testimony is an essential part of the Libellus de dictis quatuor ancillarum sanctae Elisabeth confectus , in which the statements of the four so-called servants of Elisabeth of Thuringia (next to Isentrud von Hörselgau the lady-in-waiting Guda and the two Marburg hospital nurses Irmgard and Elisabeth) are combined. Together with the summa vitae , they are essential sources of Elisabeth's life and in part illuminate points that Konrad von Marburg withheld in his biography. Guda and Isentrud von Hörselgau point out that Konrad von Marburg ordered Elisabeth of Thuringia to move to Marburg after her husband died on the Fifth Crusade and her brother-in-law Heinrich Raspe drove her from the Wartburg. Isentrud von Hörselgau also illuminates how radically Konrad von Marburg tried to separate Elisabeth of Thuringia from her previous life. Elisabeth von Thuringia only received Guda and Isentrud von Hörselgau in Marburg if Konrad von Marburg had given her permission.
The testimony of Libellus was recorded and handed down as part of the canonization process of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia from 1232 to 1235.
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literature
- Walter Nigg (Ed.): Elisabeth of Thuringia. Patmos Verlag, Düsseldorf 1967. Among other things, the book contains the testimony of the four servants translated by Otto Kragel.
- Lee Maril (Ed.): Elisabeth von Thüringen. The testimonies of their contemporaries. Benziger, Einsiedeln 1961
- Raoul Manselli : Princely holiness and everyday life with Elisabeth of Thuringia: The testimony of the servants. In: Udo Arnold and Heinz Liebing (eds.): Elisabeth, the German Order and Your Church. Elwert Verlag, Marburg 1983, ISBN 3-7708-0754-5 , pp. 9-27
- Paul Gerhard Schmidt : The contemporary tradition on the life and canonization of St. Elisabeth. In: Philipps University of Marburg (ed.): Sankt Elisabeth: Fürstin - Dienerin - Heilige. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1981, ISBN 3-7995-4035-0 , pp. 1-7
- Fred Schwind : The Landgraviate of Thuringia and the landgrave's court at the time of Elisabeth. In: Philipps University of Marburg (ed.): Sankt Elisabeth: Fürstin - Dienerin - Heilige. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1981, ISBN 3-7995-4035-0 , pp. 29-45
- Matthias Werner : Saint Elisabeth and Conrad of Marburg. In: Philipps University of Marburg (ed.): Sankt Elisabeth: Fürstin - Dienerin - Heilige. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Sigmaringen 1981, ISBN 3-7995-4035-0 , pp. 45-70
- Helmut Zimmermann and Eckhard Bieger: Elisabeth - saints of Christian charity. Publishing community Topos plus, Kevelaer 2006, ISBN 3-7867-8598-8
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Isentrud von Hörselgau |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Woman in the wake of Elisabeth of Thuringia, witness in her canonization process |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 12th century or 13th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1235 |