Margareta Dorothea von Dalberg

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Margareta Dorothea von Dalberg (* around 1610 ; † 1674 ) was abbess of the Oberwerth monastery near Koblenz from 1646 and probably until her death in 1674 .

origin

Margareta Dorothea was a daughter of Wolf Dietrich von Dalberg (* around 1570 - † July 1, 1618, buried in Mainz Cathedral ), electoral Mainz councilor and chief magistrate in Rieneck , in Nieder-Olm and Gau-Algesheim . He married Magdalena on August 17, 1604 in Mainz , daughter of Hartmann von Kronberg and Magdalena Brendel von Homburg († August 28, 1616, also buried in Mainz Cathedral). She is the mother of Margareta Dorothea. The father married a second time on February 26, 1618, Anna Ursula, daughter of Hans Gottfried von Wallbrunn and Maria Elisabeth Wolf von Sponheim.

childhood and education

Margareta Dorothea lost her mother in 1616 and her father in 1618. Damian von Bassenheim , Wolfgang Friedrich von Dalberg († 1621) and Hans Georg von Dalberg († 1644), the latter two cousins ​​of their father, now jointly exercised guardianship over them and their seven siblings (for other relatives see: here ). The stepmother and widow Anna Ursula, came into this situation as a nun in Klarissenkloster in Mainz. In this situation, the children's guardians decided to give Margareta Dorothea an education in the Benedictine convent Kloster Oberwerth near Koblenz . Here she became a nun in 1634. Her health was not doing well during this time. She could only contribute to the monastery life to a limited extent. In return, her family paid 20 Reichstaler per year to the monastery.

abbess

In 1646 Margareta Dorothea was appointed abbess of the Oberwerth monastery. The length of their term of office is controversial. On the one hand, the literature assumes that she held the office until her death in 1674. Others assume that it was replaced by Philippine von Eltz in 1659 (?) . However, in a document dated September 5, 1663, she is still explicitly referred to as abbess.

See also

literature

in alphabetical order by authors / editors

  • Johannes Bollinger: 100 families of the chamberlain from Worms and the lords of Dalberg . Bollinger, Worms-Herrnsheim 1989. Without ISBN.
  • Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables. Family tables on the history of the European states . New series, vol. 9: Families from the Middle and Upper Rhine and from Burgundy . Marburg 1986. Without ISBN, plate 57.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Bollinger, p. 50, writes "Rie m eck", an obvious reading or printing error.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bollinger, p. 51.
  2. ↑ Schwennicke; Bollinger, p. 51.
  3. ↑ Bollinger, p. 50.
  4. ↑ Bollinger, p. 50.
  5. ↑ Bollinger, p. 51.
  6. ↑ Schwennicke; Bollinger, p. 51.
  7. ↑ Bollinger, p. 51.
personal data
SURNAME Dalberg, Margareta Dorothea from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess of the Oberwerth monastery near Koblenz
DATE OF BIRTH around 1610
DATE OF DEATH 1674