Judenta von Hagenbuch

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Judenta von Hagenbuch († September 4, 1254 in Zurich ) was the third Thurgau Abbess of the Fraumünster in Zurich from 1229 to 1254 . She was awarded the title of imperial princess by King Henry (VII) . Because of disputes with the city of Zurich confirmed their 1241 King Conrad IV. , The right to mint coins . On her coins she depicts the two heads of St. Felix and St. Regula , two of the three Zurich city patrons. In the last years of her reign she ordered the reconstruction of the transept of the monastery church, which she "carried out halfway", which probably means half of the later height. She started it in the Romanesque style, while one of her successors, Abbess Elisabeth von Wetzikon (1270–1298), added the larger part of the transept in the Gothic style. Judentas (Judith's) building activity was also known to Heinrich Murer , who inserted the following short biography in his chronicle of the Fraumünster monastery in the middle of the 17th century:

« Juditha. After tiling LXXXI years (...): we find Frauw Judith vonn Hagenbuoch so Anno Domini MCCLIII to Frauw Munster abbess and ruled that she should also have built something on the choir in the Muenster. »

Many of her property purchases, sales, bequests and fiefdoms are documented. B. the Cistercian monastery Wettingen a house in Zurich or acquired the serfs in Uri von Burchard von Belp at the same time.

literature

  • Helvetia Sacra , Division III, The Orders with Benedictine Rule , Volume 1, Part Three. Francke Verlag, Bern 1986, pp. 2002–2003.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Numismatischer Verlag Fritz-Rudolf Künker: Künker Auction 130 - The De Wit Collection of Medieval Coins, 1000 Years of European Coinage, Part II: Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, Hungary, Silesia, Poland, Baltic States, Russia and the golden horde [1]
  2. ↑ Andrea Weibel: Hagenbuch, Judenta von. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ Vögelin, Salomon: The old Zurich presented historically and topographically, or a hike through the same in 1504; with explanations and addenda up to the latest time. - Zurich, Orell 1829, p. 276 [2]
  4. ↑ Homepage of the Fraumünster [3]
  5. ^ Heinrich Murer: Dominarum Monasterium Thuricense, p. 7v
  6. ^ Franz X. Wöber: The Miller from and to Aichholz. A genealogical study. Part I: The Mülner of Zurich and their fall. (1102-1386). 1. Volume: From the earliest times to the death of the Imperial Bailiff Jacob des Mülner (1287). Gerold, Vienna 1893. ISBN 978-5-87861-971-4 , p. 144. [4]
  7. ↑ Chartularium Sangallense III, No. 1199, p. 190
  8. ↑ Durrer, Robert: Opplingen im Lande Uri: Studies on the origin of the allodial possession of Burgundian dynasts in Uri, journal: Yearbook for Swiss History, Volume (year): 24 (1899), p. 15, doi : 10.5169 / seals-34245
personal data
SURNAME Judenta von Hagenbuch
BRIEF DESCRIPTION third Thurgau abbess of the Fraumünster Zurich
DATE OF BIRTH before 1229
DATE OF DEATH September 4, 1254
Place of death Zurich