Margarete von Werdenberg

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Margarete von Werdenberg (* 1436/37; † 1496 ) was an abbess of the free worldly Buchau women's monastery in today's Bad Buchau am Federsee .

Life

She was born as one of sixteen children of Count Johann IV von Werdenberg-Sargans († 1465) and his wife Elisabeth von Württemberg , daughter of Count Eberhard III. von Württemberg and Elisabeth von Nürnberg-Hohenzollern .

Her brothers were the Augsburg bishop Johann II von Werdenberg († 1486), Heinrich XIII. von Werdenberg († 1505), Canon of Strasbourg and Rudolf X. von Werdenberg († 1505), German Johanniter Grand Prior . The father's grave is preserved in the Martinskirche Trochtelfingen .

On July 29, 1449 Margarete von Werdenberg was elected abbess of the monastery. When she reached the canonical age in 1466, she was finally able to take over the monastery. From this year comes a document from the Palatinate Court that formally confirmed her rights as abbess. In 1486 she stayed in Augsburg for the funeral of her episcopal brother.

She died after a long reign in 1496. Her younger sister Anna von Werdenberg († 1497) was succeeded.

literature

  • Bernhard Theil: The free worldly women's monastery Buchau am Federsee . Ed .: Max Planck Institute for History (=  Germania Sacra . NF 32). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-014214-7 , pp. 227-228 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theil, p. 227
  2. ^ Theil, p. 228
  3. ^ Karl Heinz Burmeister: The Counts of Werdenberg , in: Montfort - Quarterly magazine for the past and present of Vorarlberg , Volume 58, 2006, Issue 2/3, p. 131, (PDF view)
predecessor Office Successor
Clare of Montfort Abbess of Buchau
1449–1496 		Anna von Werdenberg
personal data
SURNAME Werdenberg, Margarete von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess of the Buchau women's monastery
DATE OF BIRTH 1436 or 1437
DATE OF DEATH 1496