Sophie von Winzenburg

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Sophie von Winzenburg (* 1105 in Winzenburg near Hanover ; † July 6 or 7, 1160 in Brandenburg ) was the first Margravine of Brandenburg .

According to the current state of historical research, the paternity for Sophie has not been clearly proven. Probably her father was Hermann I von Winzenburg , but it is also possible that she belonged to another noble house in which the name Sophie appeared.

In 1125 Sophie Albrecht I , the founder of the Mark Brandenburg, was given to wife. In this marriage she gave birth to a dozen offspring, of which Bernhard lived the longest, namely until 1212. She donated one Hufe in Wellen and Wolmirsleben to the Leitzkau Monastery . In 1158 she accompanied her husband on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Her sister was Beatrix II , Abbess of the Quedlinburg Abbey , who died in the same year as herself. Sophie von Winzenburg died according to some sources on March 25, 1160, according to other sources on 6/7. July 1160, and was buried in the church of Ballenstedt Abbey.

Seven hundred years after Sophie von Winzenburg's death, a bracteate was found near Aschersleben on which she is depicted next to her husband. The image is stylized, but this applies to all portraits of people from that era. The fact that Albrecht had his wife struck on his coins next to him is unusual evidence of his love for Sophie.

literature

  • Otto Dungern: right of succession to the throne and blood relationship of the German emperors since Charlemagne . Papiermühle, Vogt 1910, OCLC 42783632. p. 159.
  • Bettina Elpers: governing, educating, preserving. Maternal reigns in the High Middle Ages . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 978-3465032748 . P. 152.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The private internet portal for the state of Brandenburg
  2. ↑ a b c d Sophie von Winzenburg in "Genealogy Middle Ages"
  3. ^ Karlheinz Deschner : Kriminalgeschichte des Christianentums. Vol. 8. Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2006, ISBN 978-3499616709 , p. 417.
  4. ↑ Coin find near Aschersleben
personal data
SURNAME Sophie von Winzenburg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Margravine of Brandenburg
DATE OF BIRTH 1105
PLACE OF BIRTH Winzenburg near Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 6th 1160 or July 7th 1160
Place of death Brandenburg