Mathilde I. (Essen)

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Mathilde I († January 7 of an unknown year) was possibly the fifth abbess of the Essen monastery .

Mathilde I is said to have been abbess from 907 to 910. The Essen necrology secures the anniversary of her death. The early modern Essen abbess catalogs assign them to the relatives of Queen Mathilde . She was the successor of Wicburg and the predecessor of Hadwig .

An essay by Tobias Nüssel, published in 2011, denies that Mathilde, who died on January 7th, was abbess in Essen in the 10th century, and justifies this with her absence in all other Essen memorial traditions.

literature

  • Alfred Pothmann: The abbesses of the Essen monastery. In: Münster am Hellweg. Bulletin of the Association for the Preservation of the Essen Minster. Essen 1987, pp. 5-11.
  • Tobias Nüssel: Thoughts on the Essen abbesses between Wicburg and Mathilde. In: The Minster on Hellweg. 63, 2010, pp. 7-31.

Remarks

  1. ^ Alfred Pothmann: The Abbesses of the Essner Stift. In: The Minster on Hellweg. 1987, p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Mathilde
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbess of the Essen monastery
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century
DATE OF DEATH 10th century