Catherine of the Palatinate (1499–1526)

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Contemporary grave slab in the monastery church in Neuburg
Abbess's coat of arms on the grave slab

Katharina von der Pfalz (born October 14, 1499 in Heidelberg , † January 16, 1526 in Neuburg am Neckar ) from the Wittelsbach family was an electoral Palatinate princess and abbess of the Neuburg monastery .

Life

Katharina was the youngest child of Elector Philipp von der Pfalz (1448–1508) from his marriage to Margarete (1456–1501), daughter of Duke Ludwig IX. from Bavaria-Landshut . Katharina entered the Benedictine convent in Neuburg in 1515 with full renunciation of inheritance , when she died at the age of 26 as its abbess.

Katharina was buried in the monastery church in Neuburg. Her grave stone, on the north wall of the nave opposite the monastery portal, made of red sandstone, depicts her in half-relief in nun's costume, in her hands the abbess's staff and a book, at her feet a lion.

She was the sister of the Speyer bishop Georg von der Pfalz (1486–1529).

coat of arms

Her personal abbess coat of arms is preserved on the grave slab. Top left and bottom right it shows an N for Neuburg with the abbess's staff lying vertically above it. At the top right is the Palatinate lion , at the bottom left is the Wittelsbach diamond sign.

literature

  • August Benedict Michaelis: Introduction to a complete history of the electoral and princely houses in Germany. Volume 2, 1760, p. 32

Individual evidence

  1. ^ New archive for the history of the city of Heidelberg and the Electoral Palatinate , Volume 6, 1905, p. 22
  2. ↑ Renate Neumüllers-Klauser: The inscriptions of the city and the district of Heidelberg , Reichert, 1970, p. 121
personal data
SURNAME Catherine of the Palatinate
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess of Neuburg am Neckar
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1499
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1526
Place of death Neuburg Abbey