Veronika Welser

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Portrait of Prioress Veronika Welser by Hans Holben the Elder, around 1504

Veronika Welser († June 18, 1531 in Augsburg ) was a canon and from 1504 to 1530 the prioress of the Dominican convent of St. Katharina in Augsburg.

Life

She came from the respected Augsburg patrician family of the Welser . In the monastery files she is listed as the daughter of Bartholomäus Welser (IV.). More recent research names her as the daughter of Hans Welser from his second marriage to Ursula geb. Mörler.

She entered the St. Katharina's convent at a young age and prescribed him Gut Waltershofen, among other things . It is disputed whether she was baptized with the name Ursula and only assumed the religious name Veronica when she entered the monastery . Until 1503 she worked as a monastery clerk. At the beginning of 1504 she was elected prioress and thus succeeded Anna Walther. She held the office until 1530. Under her priory a lot was the construction of a new monastery for which she provided 200 guilders. For the former chapter house she had the painter Hans Holbein the Elder commissioned the last two depictions of the so-called basilica cycle.

The Reformation averse she corresponded with Pope Clement VII. In which she asked him for advice and support. In 1530 she obtained confirmation of the old rights of the monastery from Emperor Charles V and thus protected it from violent attacks. Throughout her life she adhered to the usual rules of monastic coexistence and left an old-believing convent on her death.

Portrait

The oil painting on wood by Hans Holbein the Elder around 1504 shows the sitter turned to the left in the dress of the Dominican nuns. The crossed hands hold a rosary. It is a fragment of the painting Basilica San Paolo fuori le mura, which belongs to the Basilica cycle, and is still on site today in the State Gallery of Old German Masters of the former monastery church of St. Catherine .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reformation- historical studies and texts . Aschendorffsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1980, ISBN 978-3-402-03764-5 ( google.de [accessed on January 25, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Historical Association for Swabia: Journal of the Historical Association for Swabia . Seitz, 1883 ( google.de [accessed January 28, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Mark Häberlein, Johannes Burkhardt: The Welser: New research on the history and culture of the Upper German trading house . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2014, ISBN 978-3-05-007705-5 ( google.de [accessed on January 25, 2019]).
  4. ^ Digital Library - Munich Digitization Center. Retrieved January 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Norbert Lieb: Fugger and Welser: Upper German economy, politics and culture in the mirror of two genders; Exhibition in the Schaezlerhaus, Augsburg, June-September 1950 . Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 1950 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2019]).
  6. ↑ Holbein and his time: The artist's family, life and work . EASeemann, 1874 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Angelika Nowicki-Pastuschka: Women in the Reformation: Investigations into the behavior of women in the imperial cities of Augsburg and Nuremberg to the Reformation movement between 1517 and 1537 . Centaurus-Verlagsgesellschaft, 1990, ISBN 978-3-89085-322-2 ( google.de [accessed on January 28, 2019]).
  8. ↑ Mark Häberlein, Johannes Burkhardt: The Welser: New research on the history and culture of the Upper German trading house . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2014, ISBN 978-3-05-007705-5 ( google.de [accessed on January 25, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Regina Dauser: The Fugger and Welser: from the Middle Ages to the present . Verlagsgemeinschaft Augsbuch, 2010, ISBN 978-3-938332-15-3 ( google.de [accessed on January 25, 2019]).
  10. ^ Johann Andreas Romberg: Conversationslexicon for visual arts. Founded by JA Romberg, continued by Friedrich Faber . Romberg, 1848 ( google.de [accessed January 25, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Welser, Veronika
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weiser, Ursula (baptismal name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canon and prioress of the Dominican convent St (1504–1530)
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1531
Place of death augsburg