Maria of Tecklenburg

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Maria von Tecklenburg (+ November 5, 1527 ) was abbess in Freckenhorst Abbey .

Life

Origin and family

As the daughter of Count Otto VII. Tecklenburg and his second wife Adelheid von Plesse Maria was one of Tecklenburg the Westphalian nobility to. Her grandparents were Nikolaus II von Tecklenburg and Anna von Moers, daughter of Count Friedrich von Moers . Maria's sister Lisa was abbess in the Gerresheim monastery , her aunt Anna von Plesse from 1433 to 1456 abbess in Freckenhorst.

Career and work

When Mary took office, a year-long dispute arose. Its predecessor Bonizeth of Isenburg said she was from Freckenhorster Convention been forced out of office, while Mary's side of a waiver went out. On April 18, 1474, the bishop stated that the accusations made by Bonizeth were baseless and unjustified. On June 7th, 1482, a settlement was made with which Maria had to pay Bonizeth 32 gold florins per year and other natural goods. Bonizeth had also filed a lawsuit with the Curia in the course of the proceedings . Thereupon the excommunication was pronounced over the Abbey of Freckenhorst and Maria . The dispute was only resolved with the repeal by Pope Innocent VIII and the announcement of this resolution on June 17, 1485 by the cathedral dean Otto von Korff.

In 1495 the Augustinian monastery was formally converted into a free world monastery, although the situation had lasted for a long time. They were the expression of a trend that began in the 15th century. The women's colleges increasingly lost their inner relationship with the founding ideals; the benefices were more and more in the foreground. This state of mind is characteristic of the construction of a new abbey, which Mary drove forward. The community with the convent was significantly loosened structurally. The Lutheran Reformation that began in Westphalia initially left no recognizable traces in Freckenhorst, because Maria was firmly on the ground in the old church.

Others

The von Tecklenburg family joined the Lutheran doctrine as the first Westphalian count family when Maria died in 1527 .

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SURNAME Tecklenburg, Maria von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess in Freckenhorst Abbey
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH November 5, 1527