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1698-1742
Reigning Abbess
Madeleine-Eugenie de Béthune des Placques of Bourbourg,
Lady
of Oxelaere, Noordpeene, Faumont and Coutiches (France) |
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A large number of her relatives had been bishops and abbesses of
various dioceses and institutions since around 1200. Succeeded by
niece, Marie-Charlotte de Béthune, and lived (1696-1742). |
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1699-1711
Abbess Nullius
Giacoma Palmieri of the Royal Convent of Saint
Benedetto in Conversano, Temporal and Secular Ruler of Conversano
(Italy) |
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During her reign, the Regent of the County of Conversano was Dorotea
Acquaviva d'Aragona, who administered the fief in the name of her
postumously born son, Giulio Antonio Acquaviva during the years
1691-1710, after the death of her husband, Giulio Antonio Acquaviva
d'Aragona, Duke of Nardò and Noci, Count of Castellana, Conversano
and San Flaviano. |
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1700-12 Princess-Abbess Magdalena Sohler of Heggbach
(Germany) |
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A
forceful and energetic administrator and was engaged in various
disputes with neighbouring nobles. The chapter was hit by heavy taxes
during the War of the Spanish Succession and the continued passage
thorough the territory of foreign troops. From around 1705 her
epileptic attacks increased and she was unable to perform her duties.
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1700-11 Princesse-Abbesse Elisabeth Charlotte Gabrielle de
Lorraine of Remiremont (France) |
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Her father, Duke Léopold of
Lorraine, tried to impose her as Coadjutrice with the right of
succession. Princess-Abbess Dorothée asked the Professors at Sorbonne
for advice, but they didn’t answer before her death 2 years later, so
King Louis XIV imposed Élisabeth as sovereign of the territory. She
lived (1700-11). |
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1701-11 Princess-Abbess Maria Anna Susana zu Rhein of Schänis
(Switzerland) |
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Received the Papal Nuntius, Vincenzo Bichi in the chapter in the last
year of her reign. Two other members of her family were Fürstäbtissin
of the territory, the first from 1664 and the second from 1735. She
was daughter of Hans Wilhelm zu Rhein zu Mortzwiller and Beatrix Reich
von Reichenstein. |
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1702-10 Administratrice Christine de Salm-Salm of Remiremont
(France) |
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In 1684 her sister, Princess-Abbess
Dorothée de Salm, had her named as Second-in-Command against the
ancient tradition where the Doyenne was the Deputy to the Abbess, and
named Secréte, the third-in-command, after the death of Anne de Malain
de Lux by the Pope, but never-the-less the ladies of the chapter
elected Elisabeth-Gabrielle-Françoise Rouxel de Médavy to the post,
but Christina von Salm continued as her sister's de-facto deputy, and
she was Acting Princess-Abbess during the minority of Élisabeth-Charlotte.
She lived (1653-?). |
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1704-18 Acting Princess-Abbess Marie Aurora von Königsmarck of
Quedlinburg (Germany)
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Her father, General Graf Konrad Christoph von Königsmarck, fell in
battle and she went with her mother, the Swedish Baroness Maria
Christina von Wrangel af Lindeberg, to Sweden. After her death in 1691
she lived with her sister in Hamburg. 1696-97 she was the mistress of
Elector Friedrich August II of Sachsen. Afterwards she retired to
Quedlinburg where she became second-in-command as Pröpstin, but lived
in Berlin, Dresden and Hamburg. 1702 she went on a diplomatic mission
to the Swedish army in Narwa. After the Peace of she retired to
Quedlinburg and was the Acting Sovereign as no Princess-Abbess was
elected. She was in dispute with the other ladies of the chapter,
Dechaness Eleonora Sophie von Schwarzenburg and her sister Maria
Magdalena and various attempts to reconciliate the three failed even
though the King of Prussia and the Emperor intervened. She spoke
various languages, was a virtuous player of Lute and Viola da Gamba,
and composed various operas, lieder and cantata. She lived
(1662-1728). |
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1704-07 and 1711-14
Reigning Abbess-General
Teresa Josefa de Lanuza of the Monastery of Santa Maria la Real de Las
Huelgas in Burgos (Spain)
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The Abbess of the chapter had the
right to hold her own courts, in civil and criminal cases, granted
letters dismissorial for ordination, and issued licenses authorizing
priests, within the limits of her abbatial jurisdiction, to hear
confessions, to preach, and to engage in the cure of souls. She was
privileged also to confirm Abbesses, to impose censures, and to
convoke synod. |
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1704-42
Reigning Abbess
Louise-Françoise de Rochechouart
of the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud (France) |
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Succeeded her aunt Gabrielle de Rochechouart de Mortemart. |
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1706-17 Princess-Abbess Anna Juliana Helene von Manderscheid-Blankenheim-Gerolstein
of Thorn, Lady of Thorn, Ittervoort, Grathem, Baexem, Stramproy,
Ell, Haler and Molenbeerse (The Netherlands)
1708-17 Princess-Abbess of Elten and Abbess of Vreden
(Germany) |
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During her reign the principality ended it's long lasting disputes
with the Republic of the Netherlands with a treaty in 1715, which
defined the rights of the abbey and the Staten Generaal - the Dutch
parliament. In Elten she was succeeded by Maria Eugenia von
Manderscheid. |
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1706-24 Princess-Abbess Marie Françoise Josephine de Berghes of
Nivelles, Dame Temporaire and Spirituelle of Nivelles
(Belgium) |
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She was daughter of Philipp Franz,
Prince de Berghes, Count de Grimberghe etc, who was Governor of
Hainault and later of Brussels and Marie Jacqueline de Lalaing,
Baroness de Gaesbeek, and lived (1678-1724). |
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1706-37
Princess-Abbess
Maria Mechtildis Berchtold
of
Göss bei Leoben (Austria) |
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Member of an Austrian Countly family. |
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1706-53
Princess and Abbess
Marie Gertrude von Berlepsch of
the Stift zu den Engeln in Prag (Chapel of Angels in Prague) in
Austria-Hungary |
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After husband, Wilhelm Ludwig von Berlepsch (1639-76), died of the
wounds he received by the siege of Philippsburg, she became
responsible for her two sons, Sittich Herbold (1673-1712) and the
posthumously born, Peter Philipp Josef (1676-1721). As she chose to
have her second son baptised by an Evangelican priest in 1680, the
Prince-Abbot of Fulda sieged her castle Eichenzell and fined her 200
gulden, but she refused to bow. The same year the Emperor took her
under his protection and in 1684 she was named Hofmeisterin (Mistress
of the Court) in the Court of the first wife of the Pfalzgraf Johann
Wilhelm von Pfalz Neuburg, and after her death in 1689, Marie Gertrude
continued in office as Oberhofmeisterin (Chief Mistress) by the first
wife of the Pfalzgraf and Elector Karl Philipp nach Neuburg an der
Donau. 1690 she was appointed Oberhofmeisterin of Marie Anna who
married king Carlos II of Spain, and during her time in Spain, she had
a decisive influence on the politics of the country and thereby also
in the rest of Europe. She worked for the interests of Austria and was
very influential when it came to appointment to important offices and
became very rich. In 1695, the Emperor raised her and her sons to the
positions of Counts of the Realm (Reichsgrafenstand), but in the
meantime the opposition against the German influence on the
Queen-Regent grew, and Marie Gertrude left Spain in 1700. She bought
back the part of the Estate of Eichenzell that had been taken as
security by the Abbot of Fulda in 1680, and in 1699, she bought the
Lordship of the Realm of Mylendok (Reichsherrschaft), and lived her to
her death. 1706 she became the first Abbess of the newly founded
Ladies Chapel in Prague (englischen weltlichen Fräulein-Stift in der
Neustadt Prag) and she was appointed Princess of the Empire (Reichsfürstenstand).
Born as Wolf von Gudenberg, she lived (1654-1723). |
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1706-08
Abbess Nullius
Onofria Tarsi of the Royal Convent of
Saint Benedetto in Conversano, Temporal and
Secular Ruler of Conversano (Italy) |
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Elected in the presence of Bishop of Monopoli. |
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1709-39
Reigning Abbess
Maria Antonia Constantina Scholastika von Falkenstein
of Wald,
Lady
of the Offices of Wald, Vernhof and Ennigerloh (Germany) |
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Built the large baroque chapter-complex in the years 1721–27. 5 of her
sisters were nuns in Unterlinden in Colmer, 1 in Günterstal and 3
possibly in Alspach beiKeysersberg, her brother, Adalbert became
Bishop of Csanád in Hungary, another was a cleric and the last married
a former nun in Wald. She was daughter of Freiherr von Falkensten and
Anna Franziska Ursula von Mercy, and lived (1666-1739). |
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1710-11 and 1718-20 Reigning Abbess-General Inés de Osio y
Mendoza of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas
in Burgos (Spain)
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Her full title was "noble Lady, the superior, prelate, and lawful
administratrix in spirituals and temporals of the royal abbey". |
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1710-38 Princesse-Abbesse Béatrix Hiéronyme de
Lorraine-Lillebonne of Remiremont (France) |
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Known as the "Mademoiselle de Lillebonne",
she had lived in the entourage of the Grand Dauphin at Versailles,
before she was named coadjutrice in 1705-11. She was daughter of
Charles IV de Lorraine and Béatrix de Cusance. She built a Hospital
for the sick, poor and orphans, and lived (1662-1738). |
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1711
Abbess Nullius Giuditta Pascale of
the Royal Convent of Saint Benedetto in Conversano, Temporal and
Secular Ruler of Conversano (Italy) |
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Listed in the alternative list of Abbesses. 1709 the ancient ceremony
where the clergy paid public homage to the Abbess was modified and
toned down. |
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1711-13 Princess-Abbess Maria Eva Rosa von Römerstal of Schänis
(Switzerland) |
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1712 she fled from troops to Zürich into exile
into the interior of Switzerland, and in the meantime Maria Anna
Margaretha von Wessenberg acted as Regent. The daughter of Johann
Wilhelm von Römerstal, Chief Forester of the Bishop of Basel, and
Klara Margarethe von Reinach, and the French version of her name was
Marie Eve Rose de Rombeveaux. |
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1712 Acting Princess-Abbess
Maria Anna Margaretha von Wessenberg
of Schänis (Switzerland) |
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As the only one to remain in the chapter when the Fürstäbtissin and
the other canonisses fled from the troops from Zürich she acted as
Stadholder (Statthalterin) from May to August. |
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1712-42 Princess-Abbess Maria Cäcilia II Constanza Schmid of
Heggbach (Germany) |
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She paid off most of the heavy
depths of the chapter, but the production buildings were hit by
lightening and all the stock burned down to the ground. She wrote to a
large number of neighbouring convents - including Gutenzell and Buchau
and received plenty of donations. 1713 Emperor Karl VI of Austria
confirmed the privileges of the chapter, but the following year she
wrote to the Abbesses of Baindt, Gutenzell and Rottenmünster
threatening to withdraw from the College of Prelates of the Realm (Reichsprälatenkollegium)
if it would bear only financial obligations and no advantages to stay
member, and she continued the disputes with the cities and other
inhabitants of the territory, because of the taxes imposed by the
Realm, and she feared for her position as Princess of the Realm. At
the time of her reign the territory covered around 50 square
kilometres and 1.718 inhabitants. She lived (1671-1742). |
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1712-13
Princess-Abbess Marie Elisabeth zu
Mecklenburg-Schwerin of Gandersheim (Germany) |
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Was Regent of the Chapter
of Rühn in Mecklenburg 1705-12 and held the office of Dechaness of
Gandersheim before becoming its Sovereign. She was daughter of Duke
Adolf Friedrich I and Marie Katharina von Braunschweig-Dannenberg (1616-1665).
Her oldest sister, Sophie Agnes was Regent of Rühn 1654-94, another,
Christine was Princess-Abbess of of Gandersheim 1681-93 and Juliane
Sibylle was also Regent of Rühn 1695-1701. She lived
(1646-1713). |
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1713-66 Princess-Abbess
Elisabeth
Ernestine Antonie zu Sachsen-Meiningen of Gandersheim (Germany) |
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During her reign the Chapter of the Realm (Reichsabtei), experienced a
revival. She had set up her permanent residence in the Stift and used
her funds on expanding the church and other institutions and she was a
great sponsor of arts and science and baroque culture. She also
collected a large library and built a number of baroque buildings. She
defended the independence of the chapter against the interventions of
the duke of Braunschweig and his use of "Our Chapter" or "Princely
Chapter" stressing that Gandersheim was an "ancient Imperial Free
Worldly Chapter." She was daughter of Duke Bernhard I of Saxe-Meiningen
and his second wife Elisabeth Eleonore von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel,
and lived (1681-1766). |
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1713-35 Princess-Abbess Maria Clara Salomé von Roggenbach of
Schänis (Switzerland) |
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Because of a serious mental inless a Reigning Koadjutorin was
installed 1722 until she resigned from office. The Daughter of Johann
Franz von Roggenbach, of a noble Austrian family living in the Diocese
of Basel, and Maria Jacobe Münch von Rosenberg. She lived (1668-1736). |
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1715-28 Princess-Abbess Lambertina Cécilia de Renesse d'Elderen
of Munsterbilzen, Dame of Wellen, Haccourt, Hallembaye and
Kleine-Spouwen (Belgium) |
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After the death of her predecessor,
Anna Leonora, she quickly took the reigns and was elected abbess the
following year. She also used the title of Princess, but unlike
earlier, the Prince-Bishop of Liège did not protest, perhaps because
her brother, Maximiliaan Hendrik van Renesse, was Grand-Bailiff of the
County of Loon, Head of the nobility of Liège and Secretary and
Advisor of the Prince-Bishop. The internal disputes between different
factions within the chapter continued in spite of the difficult
financial situation. She was daughter of Georg Frederik de Renesse and
Anna Margarethe von Bocholtz, and lived 1670-1728). |
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1715-18 Reigning Abbess-General Teresa Badarán de Oxinalde of
the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos
(Spain)
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She exercised an unlimited secular authority over more than 60
villages, held her own courts, granted letters dismissorial for
ordination, and issued licenses authorizing priests, within the limits
of her abbatial jurisdiction. |
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1717-76 Princess-Abbess Franziska Christine von der
Pfalz-Sulzbach of Thorn, Lady of Thorn, Ittervoort, Grathem,
Baexem, Stramproy, Ell, Haler and Molenbeerse (The Netherlands)
1726-76 Princess-Abbess of Essen, Lady of Breisig,
Huckard and Rellinghausen (Germany)
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After 1718 the principality of Thorn engaged with a long lasting
conflict with the Westphalian Circle. The States (Parliament) was not
willing to pay fees to the Circle, during the Austrian Succession war,
where Thorn paid a fee to Empress Maria-Theresia. In 1726 Franziska
Christine was elected as successor to Bernhardina-Sophia von
Ostfriesland und Rietberg in Essen she mainly stayed in Essen, where
she founded an orphanage - Fürstin-Fransika-Christine-Stiftung. She
was daughter of Count Theodor of Pfalz-Sulzbach of the House of
Wittelsbach and Maria Eleonora von Hessen-Rheinfels-Rotenburg, and was
also Countess of the Rhine, and lived (1696-1776). |
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1717-27 Princess-Abbess Maria Eugenia von Manderscheid of Elten
(Germany) |
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Elected to succeeded her relative, Anna Juliana von Manderscheid, who
was Abbess of Thorn, Elten and Vreden, and after her death another
relative, Countess Eleonora Maria von Manderscheid was elected Abbess
in Elten. |
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1717-48 Princess-Abbess Sophie Charlotte von Bottlenberg gen.
Kessel of Käppel (Germany) |
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A Protestant, she succeeded the
Catholic Anna Elisabeth von der Hees. A successor was not elected
until 1753 because of disputes between the Catholic and Protestant
parties after the succession of a new "lord-protector" (Schirmherr) of
the Chapter, the Catholic Fürst Wilhelm Hyacinth of
Nassau-Siegen. |
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1718-55 Princess-Abbess Maria Elisabeth von Holstein-Gottorp of
Quedlinburg (Germany) |
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Her
time in office was marked by the disputes with King Friederich Wilhelm
I of Prussia, the Guardian of the Chapter, who anexed parts of her
lands. Her protests to the Emperor did not have any effect, and the
situation did not normalize until Friederich I came on the throne. She
rebuilt and expanded the residential castle of the chapter (Stiftsschloss).
She was daughter of Duke Christian Albrecht zu
Schleswig-Holstein-Sønderborg-Gottorp and Princess Frederikke Amalie
of Denmark, and lived (1678-1755). |
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1718-30 Princess-Abbess Maria Barbara von Liebenfels of
Säckingen (Germany) |
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Reached an agreement with Prince-Bishop Johann Franz Schenk von
Stauffenberg of Basel about the rights to the estate of Schliengen.
The reconstruction of the church was finished 1727. The daughter of
Johann Franz von Liebenfels zu Worblingen and Maria Margarethe
Schindelin von Unter-Reitnau, she lived (1666-1730). |
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1718-47 Princess-Abbess Bernardina von Donnersberg of Gutenzell
(Germany) |
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The Princess-Abbess had been a
member of the Swabian Circle of the Imperial Diet since 1521. |
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1718-20 Governor Ines
de Osio y Mendoza
of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos
(Spain)
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Acted in the place of the Reigning Abbess. |
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1719-65 Princess-Abbess Anna Magdalena Franziska von
Dondorff of
Obermünster in Regensburg (Germany) |
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All candidates
for the chapter had to undergo a comprehensive education in religion,
writing, calculation, history and foreign languages. The 12 canonesses
lived a religious life but did not take "Oath" as nuns, did not wear
nun-habibits and lived a secular life. Only the Abbess had to be
celebate, the other canonisses could marry, and the higly educated
ladies were freuquent guests at the court of the Princes of Thurn and
Taxis and of the highranking clerics and envoys to the Diet of the
Realm in Regensburg.
Her family was noble and
originated from Thüringen.
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1719-34
Reigning Abbess
Louise Adélaïde d'Orléans of Chelles (France) |
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Also the abbesse of the Val-de-Grâce, a church built under the
auspices of her maternal great-grandmother, Anne of Austria, the wife
of King Louis XIII. Originally titled Mademoiselle de Chartres, she
became Mademoiselle d'Orléans in 1710 after her older sister married
Charles, duc de Berry and was known as Madame d'Orléans 1719-34. Died
from smallpox at the Convent de la Madeleine de Traisnel in Paris.
Daughter of The Regent of France, Philippe II d'Orléans, duc de
Chartres, heir to the House of Orléans, and Françoise-Marie de
Bourbon, a legitimised natural daughter of Louis XIV and his mistress,
Madame de Montespan. She lived (1698-1743). |
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1720-30 Princess-Abbess Maria Franzisca Hundbiss von Waltrams
of Lindau (Germany) |
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1728 the Area of the Chapter was destroyed in a fire and it was
rebuild in baroque stile. Fürstäbtissin Maria Franzisca was member of
a noble family from Württemberg, which also spells its name as Hundpiß
von Waltrams. |
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1720-23
and 1726-29 Reigning Abbess-General
of the Royal Monastery María Magdalena de Villarroel Cabeza de Vaca of
Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos (Spain)
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In a decree she wrote: "We,
Doña Mará Magdalena de Villarroel Cabeza de Baca, by the grace of Ggod
and the Holy Apostolic Sea, Abbess of the Royal Monestary of Santa
Maria la Real de Las Huelgas, the of the City of Burgoes, the
Cistercian Order,...., Mother and Legitimate Superior of the Hospital
of the King and its compounds and the convents, churches, erimitages
and places with their trust and obidience with omnimodial
jurisdiction, privativa, Quasi Episcopal, Nillius, etc..." |
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1720-22
Princess-Abbess Rosina
Clara Schlindlin von Hirschfeld of the Royal Chapter St. Georg at the
Hradschin in Prague (Czech Republic) |
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Emperor Karl 6 of Austria-Hungary, Emperor of the
Holy Roman Empire issued a decree confirming her election as Princely
Abbess, "fürstliche Abbatißin zu St. Georg" |
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Until 1720
Abbess Nullius
Luigia Tarsia of the Royal Convent of Saint
Benedetto in Conversano,
Temporal and Secular Ruler
of Conversano (Italy) |
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A group of Cistercian Nuns took
over the chapter which had existed as a male convent since 889 and
also took over the direct papal protection. As Abbess she held
semi-episcopal powers until 1806.
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1720 and 1730
Abbess Nullius
Daniela La Forza of the Royal Convent of Saint
Benedetto in Conversano, Temporal and Secular
Ruler of Conversano (Italy) |
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Also Prioress. |
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1721-38 Reigning Abbess Rosina Susanna Catharina
Philippina von Venningen
of the Immediate Chapter of Kraichgau
(Germany) |
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The chapter was founded by Amalia Elisabeth won Mentzingen, geb. von
Bettendorf, from the inheritance from her parents for Evangelical
unmarried ladied from the Ritterkanton Kraichgau (Knights Canton) in
Baden, and in 1725 it was granted the status it was granted
"reichsfreiheit" incorporated into the Knight's Canton of Kraichgau, but
placed under the direct authority of the Holy Roman Emperor. Took over the
management of the Chapter in 1718, was inagurated as Abbess in 1721 and
got the status of "reigning abbess" or princess-abbess 4 years later.
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1721-33 Reigning Abbess
Charlotte Armande
de Rohan of the Royal Abbey of Jouarre (France) |
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Succeeded aunt, Anne Marguerite de Rohan. Daughter of Hercule
Meriadec, Duc de Rohan-Rohan, Prince de Soubise et de Maubuisson, etc,
Governor of Champagne and Brie and his first wife, Anne Genevieve de
Levis-Ventadour, and lived (1696-1733). |
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1722-?
Princess-Abbess Isidora
Constantia Raudnitzkin von Brzesnitz of the Royal Chapter St. Georg at
the Hradschin in Prague (Czech Republic) |
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Mentioned as "fürstlichen Abbatißin" in a
contemporary decree. |
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1722-35 Reigning
Coadjutorix Maria Anna Eleonore Reichlin von Meldegg
of Schänis (Switzerland) |
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Elected Koadjutorin with right of succession in 1722 because of the
meltan illness of Fürstäbtissin
Maria Clara Salomé von Roggenbach, who had been in office since 1713.
She managed to get the confirmation of the new statutes by the Bishop
and the Papal Nuntius Domenico Passionei in 1732. She concluded an
agreement with the community of Schänis about the maintainance of the
church. After a stroke in March 1735 she died in January the following
year, before Maria Clara Salomé. She lived (1682-1735). |
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1722-23 Princess-Abbess Anna X Haug of Baindt (Germany) |
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As Princess of The Empire
(Fürstäbtissin or Reichsäbtissin), she had the right of a vote in the
College of Prelates in the Council of Princes on the Ecclesiastical
Bench in the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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1723-51 Princess-Abbess Maria Magdalena von Dürrheim of Baindt
(Germany) |
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The privilege of lower court of
justice that had originally been granted in 1437 was confirmed twice
during her reign; in 1734 and 1741. Magdalena's family were lords of
Dürreheim near Stuttgart, Freiberg in Schwarzwald in Bavaria and had
possessions in Zürich. |
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1723-57 Princess-Abbess Maria Katharina Helena von Aham auf
Neuhaus of Niedermünster in Regensburg (Germany) |
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Another version of her surname is von Aham-Neuhaus. The seat of the
chapter was situated in the centre of the city of Regensburg, which
was the seat of the Imperial Diet (Reichstag), but the chapter had
numerous possessions outside the city. |
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1723-26 and 1729-32
Reigning Abbess-General
Ana María Helguero y Albarado of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria la
Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos (Spain)
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A relative (possibly her sister), Clara Antonia was Señora Abadesa of
Las Huelgas 1732-35. |
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1723
Abbess Nullius
Berardina Accolti of the Royal Convent of
Saint Benedetto in Conversano, Temporal and Secular Ruler of
Conversano (Italy) |
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Both secular and temporal ruler of
the territory and
among others exercised, through a
vicar, amost episcopal jurisdiction in the abbital fief of
Castellana.
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1724-27
Abbess Nullius
Marcellina Capulli of the Royal
Convent of Saint Benedetto in Conversano,
Temporal and Secular Ruler of Conversano (Italy) |
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Among the
many privileges she enjoyed
was
that of appointing her own vicar-general through whom she governed her
abbatial territory; that of selecting and approving confessors for the
laity; and that of authorizing clerics to have the cure of souls in
the churches under her jurisdiction.
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1724-43 Princess-Abbess Caroline Charlotte de Berlaimont of
Nivelles, Dame Temporaire and Spirituelle of Nivelles
(Belgium) |
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She was member of a noble family
originating from Northern France. |
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Around 1726 Princess-Abbess Carolina Margaretha van Renesse van
Elderen of Burtscheid (Germany) |
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The Baroness was mentioned in 1726
when she commissioned the restoration of the two towers of the Chapter
Church. She was member of a Dutch noble family. |
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Until 1726
Reigning Abbess
Louise Charlotte Eugénie de Beringhen of Faremoutiers (France) |
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One of 9 children of Jacques Louis de Beringhen, Marquis de Beringhen
(1651-1723) and Marie-Madeleine Elisabeth Fare d'Aumont. One of her
sisters, Anne Marie Madeleine de Beringhen, was abbess du Pré au Mans
aorund 1730. |
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1726-43
Reigning Abbess
Olympe Félicité de Beringhen of
Faremoutiers (France)
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Succeeded her sister, Louise Charlotte as head of the abbey, which
enjoyed the attention of several French kings and was an important
economic factor within its vast territory in Brie. |
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1727-40 Princess-Abbess Eleonora Maria von Manderscheid of
Elten (Germany) |
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Succeeded her relative Maria Eugenia von Manderscheid and was followed
by Eleonora Maria von Manderscheid. |
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1727
Abbess Nullius
Cesaria Therami of the Royal
Convent of Saint Benedetto in Conversano,
Temporal and Secular Ruler
of Conversano (Italy) |
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As abbess she was religious head and secular ruler of Conversano. The
counts of Conversano and the Vicar-General (Deputy Bishop) also had
some authority. |
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1727-30
Abbess Nullius
Rosa Caporossi of the Royal
Convent of Saint Benedetto in Conversano,
Temporal and Secular Ruler of Conversano (Italy) |
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Ferdinanda Pascal was elected as her successor in November 1730 but
reonuced. |
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1728-54 Princess-Abbess Christine Eberhardine Friederike von
Hohenzollern-Hechingen of Munsterbilzen, Dame of Wellen,
Haccourt, Hallembaye and Kleine-Spouwen (Belgium) |
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Like her predecessors, she was in dispute with the Prince-Bishop of
Liège over her right to use the title of "Princess of the Holy Roman
Empire". After a lengthily court-case, Emperor Karl VI, issued a
statement in 1734 demanding that the bishop stopped putting obstacles
in the way of the Princess-Abbess and let her conduct her duties as
sovereign, and the Emperor later confirmed her title as Princess of
the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. The war of the Austrian
Succession 1741-48 brought further hardship and devestation. From
around 1747 she stayed in Wenen and tried to secure the interests of
the chapter at the Imperial Court and the Dechaness
Maria Carolina Leerodt von
Born
was left in charge of the administration of the chapter. The ladies of
the chapter protested against her prolonged absence, and after the
death of her sister, Sofia, in early 1754 they even tried to depose
her, but she died soon after. She was daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm
(1663-1735), and Louise von Sinzendorf. She was succeeded as
Princess-Abbess by sister, Sofie Johanna Friederike.
Christine lived (1695-1754). |
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1729-50 Princess-Abbess Johanna Charlotte von Anhalt-Dessau of
Herford (Germany) |
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Continued the disputes of her
predecessor, Charlotte Sophie, with king Friederich Wilhelm I of
Preusia over the continued drafts of soldiers for the ongoing wars -
the City of Herford was only an Imperial Immediacy (reichsunmittelbar)
on paper, in reality it was treated like a Preusian provincial town
and she tried to protect its interests. When she took office, she
confirmed the tenantcies of local nobles who held the fiefs of the
chapter, using the titulature, Johann
Charlotta verwitwete Prinzessin in Preußen, postulierte Äbtissin des
Stifts Herford. She was
daughter of Johann Georg II von Anhalt-Dessau (1627-60-93) and
Henriette Katherine of Nassau-Oranje, and widow of Margrave Philipp
Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Schwedt (1669-1688-1711). Mother of 6
children, and in 1764 her granddaughter Friederike Charlotte
Leopoldine Luise became the last reigning abbess of the territory.
Johanna Charlotte lived (1682-1750). |
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1730-43 Princess-Abbess Anna-Margarete von Gemmingen of
Lindau (Germany)
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Her family were Lords of Gemmingen,
Bad Rappenau etc. in present day's Baden-Württemberg. |
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1730-34 Princess-Abbess Maria Magdalena von Hallwyl of
Säckingen (Germany)
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The city was under occupation by
French Troops during the Polish Succession War 1733-35. She got
permission from Prince-Bishop Johann Franz Schenk von Stauffenberg of
Bern for the canonisses to wear a special order of the chapter
(Ordenszeichen). The daughter of Johann Joseph von Hallwyl, Lord of
Blidegg and Zihlschacht and Maria Julia Katharina von
Schönau-Oeschgen, she lived (1692-1734). |
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Until 1731
Princess-Abbess Maria
Augusta von Fürstenberg of the Royal Chapter St. Georg at the Hradschin
in Prague (Czech Republic) |
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The daugher of Reichsfürst Wenzel von
Fürstenberg and Maria Josepha Truchess Trauchburg Friedberg, her German
title was gefürstete Äbtissin d. Benediktinerklosters zu Stankt Georg auf
den Hradschin zu Prag (Sv. Jiri
in Prag).
It was the
oldest convent in the Bohmian Lands founded in 973 by Prince Boleslav
II and his sister, Mlada. During the reign of Josef II the convent was
abolished in 1782. Maria Augusta (d. 1731). |
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1731-32
Abbess Nullius
Serafina Girondi of the
Royal Convent of Saint Benedetto in Conversano,
Temporal and Secular Ruler
of Conversano (Italy) |
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Also the Abbesses of Aguileia,
Brescia, Brindisi, Fucecchio and Goleto held semi episcopal authority.
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1732-35
Princess-Abbess Aloysia
von Widmann of the Royal Chapter St. Georg at the Hradschin in Prague
(Czech Republic) |
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Her election was confirmed by Karl 6 of
Austria-Hungary, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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1732-35
Reigning Abbess-General
Clara Antonia de Helguero y Albarado of the Royal Monastery of Santa
Maria la Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos (Spain)
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A relative (possibly sister), Ana María, was Abbess-General 1723-26
and 1729-32. |
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1733-38
Reigning Abbess
Anne Therese de Rohan of the Royal Abbey of Jouarre (France) |
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Daughter of Charles III de Rohan, 5th Duc de Montbazon, Pr de Guéméné,
etc, and his second wife Charlotte Elizabeth de Cochefilet. One sister
was a nun at the chapter and two of her sisters were also abbesses,
Marie Anne Benigne, at Panthemont and Angelique Eleonore at Preaux and
Marquette. She lived (1684-1738). |
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1734-53 Princess-Abbess Maria Josepha Regina von Liebenfels of
Säckingen (Germany)
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The territory
was raided during riots in 1741, the so-called 'Salpetererunruhen auf
dem Hotzenwald' - peasents riots -
and afterwards she allowed the
County of Havenstein to pay off the serfs and reached
an agreement with the Town of Säckingen about the contracts of
priests. The church with had been rebuild in Baroque Style in 1740,
was destroyed by another fire already in 1751 and she ordered that it
should be rebuild in the new Rococo style. The daughter of Heincich
Christoph von Liebenfels, Lord zu Worblingen and Maria Rosa Freiin
Vogt von Altensumerau und Prasberg, and lived (1700-53). |
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1734-35
Abbess Nullius Rosa Caporossi of
the Royal Convent of Saint Benedetto in Conversano, Temporal and
Secular Ruler of Conversano (Italy) |
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Exercised, through a vicar, amost episcopal jurisdiction in the
abbital fief of Castellana. Among the many privileges she enjoyed was
that of appointing her own vicar-general through whom she governed her
abbatial territory. |
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1734-89
Reigning Abbess
Anne de Clermont-Chaste of Chelles (France) |
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Former Canoness at Saint-Cyr, Abbess of Saint Paul de Beurepaire en
Vienne in 1725 and later of Chelles. A large number of her relatives
were bishops, abbesses and abbots. (b. 1697-1789). |
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1735-63 Princess-Abbess Maria Anna Franzisca zu Rhein of
Schänis (Switzerland) |
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Her aunt, Maria Anna Susana zu
Rhein, had been ruler of the territory 1701-11. The daughter of Johann
Franz Ludwig zu Rhein zu Mortzwiller and Maria Sibylla von Roggenbach,
she lived (1684-1763). |
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1735-..
Princess-Abbess
Anna Scholastica Paulerin von Hohenburg of the Royal Chapter St. Georg at
the Hradschin in Prague (Czech Republic) |
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Emperor Karl 6 confirmed her election. "Carl der
Sechste, Römischer Kayser", bestätigt die neugewählte Äbtissin von St.
Georg" |
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1735-38 and 1741-42
Reigning Abbess-General
María Teresa Baradán
de Oxinalde of
the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos
(Spain)
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A relative of hers, Teresa,
was Señora Abadesa de Las Huelgas 1715-18.
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1737-51
Princess-Abbess
Maria Antonia Überacker
of
Göss bei Leoben (Austria) |
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Member of an Austrian Countly family. |
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1738-73
Princesse-Abbesse Anne Charlotte I de Lorraine of
Remiremont, Dame de Saint Pierre and Metz et cetera (France)
1754-73 Secular Abbess of Sainte-Waudru in Mons (Belgium)
1756-73 Coadjutrix of Thorn (The Netherlands)
1757-73 Coadjutrix of Essen (Germany) |
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Daughter of Duke Léopold I Joseph of Lorraine and Élisabeth
Charlotte d'Orléans, and moved to the Low Countries where
sister-in-law, Anna-Maria was Governor-General in 1744 and her
brother, Karl, continued in office after his wife's death until 1746
and then again 1749-80.
She lived in Vienna 1745-54 at the court of her sister-in-law, Maria
Theresia of Austria-Hungary, who was married to her brother,
Emperor Franz Stephan. She became his close
advisor and very influential,
from 1760 with the title of Dame instead of Demoiselle.
She
was present in Prague when her sister-in-law laid the foundation stone
for the the Ladies Chapter at the Hradschin. In
1766 Lorraine was incorporated in France after having belonged to the
Holy Roman Empire for centuries.
She lived (1714-73). |
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1738-40
Abbess Nullius Giuseppa Bassi of
the Royal Convent of Saint Benedetto in Conversano, Temporal and
Secular Ruler of Conversano (Italy) |
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There were also Abbesses with semi-episcopal authority in France and
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1738-70 Reigning Abbess
Dorothea Sybilla von Mentzingen of the
Immediate Chapter of Kraichgau (Germany) |
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Member of an old local noble family, which held high administrative and
ecclesiastical offices throughout the centuries. No successor was
appointed until 1775. |
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1738-92
Reigning Abbess
Catherine-Henriette de Montmorin of the Royal Abbey of Jouarre
(France) |
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Doubled the Monastery buildings. One of the wings, the porch of the
actual rue Montmorin and the chaplain's residence is still the major
part of the Abbey. From 1790, the lands of the Abbey were confiscated
by the revolutionary Committee, the buildings were put up for sale and
the expulsion order was promulgated in 1792. This event was to be the
death of the Abbess. She passed away on September 27th. |
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1738-43
Abbess
Friederike von Wurttemberg-Neuenstadt of the
Chapter of Vallø (Denmark) |
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Danish Dowager Queen Sofie Magdalene had decided to turn the County of Vallø,
which was part of her dowry, into a Lutheran chapter for unmarried
ladies of the high nobility. The abbesses had authority in the Stift
and possessed jus vocandi - the right to appoint the priests in the 17
churches within its territory, and were also in charge of the secular
administration.
She
was daughter of Duke Friedrich August von Württemberg-Neuenstadt and
Sofie Esther Gräfin von Eberstein.
Her
seven brothers died in infancy and only her two sisters survived, and
after the death of their uncle,
Carl Rudolf, she took up residence at the Castle of Neuenstadt
together with one of them, Eleonore Wilhelmine Charlotte (1894-1751).
She lived
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