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In 1340, Elizabeth became the abbess of the newly founded Benedictine monastery in Pustiměř, established by Bishop John Volek of Olomouc. In the founding document, she is described as a relative of the Moravian margrave Charles IV , a co-founder of the monastery, and a sister of John Volek, which would imply she was the daughter of Wenceslaus II.
The office of abbess is of considerable social dignity, and in the past, was sometimes filled by princesses of the reigning houses. [2] Until the dissolution of Holy Roman Empire and mediatisation of smaller imperial fiefs by Napoleon, the evangelical Abbess of Quedlinburg was also per officio the head of that reichsunmittelbar state.
Hathumoda (840 – November 874) was a Saxon noblewoman who became the first abbess of Gandersheim.Her family, the Liudolfings, founded the Gandersheim Abbey, and she was cloistered since childhood.
The last Catholic abbess and the first Lutheran abbess. Daughter of Bodo VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode, and Anna von Eppenstein. House of Stolberg: 29 Elisabeth II 1542- 20 July 1584: 1574–1584 Daughter of Count Ulrich of Regenstein-Blankenburg and Magdalena of Stolberg. House of Regenstein: 30 Anna III 3 April 1565-12 May 1601: 1584–1601
Sophia Albertina, Abbess of Quedlinburg; Anna III, Abbess of Quedlinburg; Anna Dorothea, Abbess of Quedlinburg; Anna II, Abbess of Quedlinburg; Anna Sophia I, Abbess of Quedlinburg; Anna Sophia II, Abbess of Quedlinburg; Augusta Dorothea, Abbess of Gandersheim
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Mohrenkopf house, Neumarkt 13 Plaque honoured by the Gesellschaft zu Fraumünster in 2000 Bracken building, Oberdorfstrasse 17 Fraumünster. Katharina von Zimmern (1478 – 17 August 1547), also known as the imperial abbess of Zürich and Katharina von Reischach, was the last abbess of the Fraumünster Abbey in Zürich.
Abbess Anna II died on 4 March 1574; [3] a day after Anna II's death, Elisabeth was consecrated Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg, [4] and as such she was also Princess of the Holy Roman Empire. Elisabeth II was the second Protestant Abbess of Quedlinburg and the first one to be Protestant at the moment of her election.