Therese von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel

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Portrait of Anna Rosina de Gasc (1713–1783): Princess Therese Natalie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, oil on canvas (1773)

Princess Therese Natalie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (born June 4, 1728 in Wolfenbüttel ; † June 26, 1778 in Gandersheim Monastery , today's Bad Gandersheim ) came from the house of the Guelphs and was abbess of the Imperial Free Secular Monastery of Gandersheim.

Life

Therese Natalie was the sixth daughter of Duke Ferdinand Albrecht II of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , Prince of Braunschweig-Bevern (1680–1735) and his wife, Princess Antoinette Amalie of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1696–1762), daughter of Duke Ludwig Rudolf of Braunschweig Wolfenbüttel and Princess Christine Luise von Öttingen . She was the cousin of Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria , Queen of Hungary and Bohemia , and the sister-in-law of King Friedrich II of Prussia .

The efforts to marry Princess Therese Natalie with an archduke from Austria or with a French prince failed because she was not ready to convert to the Catholic faith. In 1747 she was first canoness, also known as a canoness since the Reformation , in Herford . At the end of the 1740s she was promised to succeed Abbess Elisabeth Ernestine Antonie (1681–1766), a princess of Saxe-Meiningen. In November 1750, Therese Natalie was introduced to a cannon office in the Gandersheim Abbey by mandatarium . On Christmas Eve of 1766 the very old abbess died after 53 years in office and on June 4, 1767 Princess Therese Natalie was elected as the new abbess. The enthronement took place on December 3, 1767. The abbess von Gandersheim often stayed at the Braunschweig court with her older brother, the ruling Duke Karl I of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel .

Therese Natalie died on June 26, 1778 in Gandersheim and was buried in the crypt of the Brunswick Cathedral . The successor and last abbess of Gandersheim was her niece, Princess Auguste Dorothea (1749-1810).

See also

literature

  • Martin Hoernes and Hedwig Röckelein (eds.): Gandersheim and Essen. Comparative studies on Saxon women's monasteries , (Essen research on women's monastery, volume 4), Essen (2006)
  • Christof Römer : Braunschweig-Bevern, A Princely House as a European Dynasty 1667–1884 , Braunschweig (1997)
  • Kurt Kronenberg : Abbesses of the Reichsstiftes Gandersheim (1981)
  • Hans Goetting: Germania Sacra , New Series 7, The Dioceses of the Ecclesiastical Province of Mainz, The Diocese of Hildesheim 1, The Gandersheim Abbey (published by the Max Planck Institute for History), Berlin, New York (1973)

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SURNAME Therese von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Therese Natalie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Princess of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Abbess of Gandersheim Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1728
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfenbüttel
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1778
Place of death Gandersheim Monastery , today's Bad Gandersheim