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    Agnes I (c. 1090 – 29 December 1125) was Abbess of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg. She was the second daughter of Judith of Swabia and Władysław I Herman...
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    Beatrice I, also known as Beatrice of Franconia (German: Beatrix von Franken; 1037 – 13 July 1061), was Abbess of Gandersheim Abbey from 1043 and Princess-Abbess...
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    Agnes of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (born: c. 1406; died: 18 November 1439) was, from 1412 to 1439, abbess of Gandersheim Abbey as Agnes II. She was a daughter...
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    Frederick I (Schwerin, 13 February 1638 – Schloss Grabow, 28 April 1688), Duke of Mecklenburg-Grabow. Christina (Schwerin, 8 August 1639 – Gandersheim, 30 June...
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    Gandersheim Abbey (German: Stift Gandersheim) is a former house of secular canonesses (Frauenstift) in the present town of Bad Gandersheim in Lower Saxony...
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    under the Ottonian dynasty. She was born in Bad Gandersheim to Saxon nobles and entered Gandersheim Abbey as a canoness. She is considered the first...
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    names on the Heritage Floor. Agnes and Henry's children were: Adelaide II (1045, Goslar – 11 January 1096), abbess of Gandersheim from 1061 and Quedlinburg...
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    Adelaide II, Abbess of Quedlinburg (category Abbesses of Gandersheim)
    predecessors Adelaide I and Beatrice. Her niece Agnes, daughter of her sister Judith of Swabia, succeeded her as abbess of both Gandersheim and Quedlinburg...
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  • also settled quickly. In 1422, the Abbess of Gandersheim Abbey (who happened to be his daughter, Agnes II of Brunswick-Grubenhagen) enfeoffed him with...
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  • near Bad Gandersheim in Lower Saxony. It was a daughter-house of Gandersheim Abbey, having been founded in 1127 by Agnes, Abbess of Gandersheim, niece of...
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  • Agnes, a daughter of the French duke William V of Aquitaine. Among her older siblings were Adelaide, who became Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim...
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  • half-brother Władysław II, Agnes of Babenberg. It is also possible that she was named after his father's half-sister, the abbess of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg....
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  • he allied with the cities in the region, such as Uslar, Seesen and Gandersheim, to fight against powerful robber barons. He succeeded in 1407, together...
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    son of Sviatopolk II of Kiev. Agnes (b. c. 1090 – d. 29 December 1127), abbess of Quedlinburg (1110) and Gandersheim (1111). Adelaide (b. c. 1091 – d...
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    daughter of Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria. They had: Gerberge, abbess to Gandersheim Hadwig, married to Burchard III, Duke of Swabia Henry II, Duke of Bavaria...
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    Abbess of Gandersheim Abbey, but she died the next year. Marie Elisabeth was the fourth child from the second marriage of Adolf Frederick I, Duke of Mecklenburg...
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  • of Hohnstein. They had three children: Agnes (b. 1445 – d. Kaufungen, 15 August 1504), Abbess of Gandersheim (1485), of Neuenheerse (1486–1492) and of...
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    Ferdinand II of Aragon's marriage to Isabella I of Castile produced seven children, five of whom survived birth and lived to adulthood. They arranged...
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  • Prince Yaroslav Sviatopolkovich of Vladimir-Volynia), Agnes (later abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim), and the wife of a Polish lord whose name is not...
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    Conrad III was a grandson of the Salian Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. (Agnes, Henry IV's daughter and Henry V's sister, was the heiress to the Salian...
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    to the abbeys of Quedlinburg, Gandersheim, Essen and Vreden. Gernrode was part of a prayer confraternity with Gandersheim and Vreden. Yyet, from the eleventh...
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    14 February 1718). Eleonore Hedwig (b. Bernburg, 28 October 1635 – d. Gandersheim, 10 September 1685). Ernestine Auguste (b. Plön, 23 December 1636 – d...
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    Henry III, Beatrix, is not displayed. She was Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim until her death in 1061. Family tree of German monarchs Henry IV (Pirandello)...
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    abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim With his second wife, Agnes: Adelaide II (1045, Goslar – 11 January 1096), abbess of Gandersheim from 1061 and Quedlinburg...
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  • the lower Elbe river. They also acted as Vogts (reeves) of the Corvey, Gandersheim, Helmarshausen, Bursfelde, and Amelungsborn. Otto succeeded his father...
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    daughter, Beatrice (d. 1061), who later became Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim. While the siege of Milan proved unsuccessful, Emperor Conrad in 1038...
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    were organized. Adelaide I, Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim, born 973/974, died 1045. Sophia I, Abbess of Gandersheim and Essen, born October 975...
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    Merseburg and the settlement of the Gandersheim Conflict. The Diocese of Merseburg had been established by Emperor Otto I in 968 to commemorate his victory...
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    to the canonesses of Gandersheim Abbey. In 1422 Abbess Agnes of Brunswick ceded Elbingerode to her father, the Welf duke Eric I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen...
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    1608 – Basel, 19 February 1643), was since 2 October 1620 Stiftsfrau in Gandersheim Abbey, became deaconess on 30 March 1626. Was since 1623 also Abbess...
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