Wichburg

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Wichburg is the name of several women, including:

  • Wichburg von Geseke († 984), first abbess (952–984) of the Geseke women's monastery
  • Wichburg von Bayern († after 980), daughter of Duke Eberhard von Bayern, wife of the Bavarian Count Palatine Hartwig I, mother of Archbishop Hartwig of Salzburg and Wichburg im Lurngau
  • Wichburg (Lurngau) (around 960-around 1020/30) wife of Count Ottwin von Sonnenburg, founder of the Stift St. Georgen am Längsee in Austria
  • Wichburg von Sonnenburg , daughter of Ottwin and Wichburg im Lurngau, co-founder of the Sonnenburg monastery
  • Wichburg (Sonnenburg) , daughter of Wichburg von Sonnenburg and first abbess of the Sonnenburg monastery
  • Wichburg (Aribonen) , abbess of the Benedictine Abbey Altmünster in Mainz, daughter of Count Palatine Aribo I of Bavaria and his wife Adala

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