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Gerberga's piety. Starting from 874 to her death, she was the successor of her older sister Hathumod, becoming abbess of Gandersheim Abbey. Gerberga is...

with her uncle Emperor Otto I and cousin Emperor Otto II. Gerberga followed in a long tradition of royal abbesses at Gandersheim. The abbey was established...

documented in a 979 deed of donation, when her father entrusted her education to his first cousin, Abbess Gerberga II of Gandersheim. Sophia was raised and...

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...

also studied under the Abbess Gerberga, granddaughter of King Henry the Fowler. Abbess Gerberga became a friend and adviser of Hrotsvit. She was a good...

Gandersheim Abbey (German: Stift Gandersheim) is a former house of secular canonesses (Frauenstift) in the present town of Bad Gandersheim in Lower Saxony...

daughter Douce of Provence (Dolça de Gévaudaun) and son-in-law Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona. Gerberga II, Abbess of Gandersheim (c. 940 – 1001)...

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...

This is a list of the princess-abbesses of Quedlinburg Abbey. Johann Heinrich Fritsch: Geschichte des vormaligen Reichsstifts Quedlinburg pt 2, 1828,...

first Abbess of Brunshausen from 852 Gerberga (d. 896/897), Abbess of Brunshausen from 874 and later of Gandersheim Christina (d. 919/920), Abbess of Gandersheim...

Hedwig, Gerberga, Henry and Bruno. On 23 December 918, Conrad I, King of East Francia and Duke of Franconia, died. According to The Deeds of the Saxons...

Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich (c. 970 – 5 February 1015(?), her date of birth and death are controversial), also known as Adelheid, was the abbess of Vilich...

Archbishop of Mainz, died in 968 Mathilde, Abbess of Essen, ruled from 973-1011 Matilda, Abbess of Quedlinburg, died in 999 Adelheid I, Abbess of Quedlinburg...

communities of single women supported by the local rulers. Almost all had ceased to exist by the 20th century. Gerberga II, Abbess of Gandersheim, (c. 940...

Adelaide I, Abbess of Quedlinburg and Gandersheim, born 973/974, died 1045. Sophia I, Abbess of Gandersheim and Essen, born October 975, died 1039....

center of religious and spiritual life, led by the example of women of the royal family: Matilda the literate mother of Otto I, his sister Gerberga of Saxony...

(1072–1106 Gandersheim Abbey (complete list) – Gerberga II, Princess-Abbess (949–1001) Sophie I, Princess-Abbess (1001–1039) Adelheid I, Princess-Abbess (1039–1043)...

Liudgard I, Princess-Abbess (919–923) Hrotsuit, Princess-Abbess (923–933) Wendelgard, Princess-Abbess (933–949) Gerberga II, Princess-Abbess (949–1001) Obotrites...

by her marriage with Duke Henry I. After her husband's death, she acted as regent of Bavaria during the minority of her son Henry the Wrangler in 955-972...

then moved north to Saxony, visiting abbesses Adelaide I of Quedlinburg and Sophia I of Gandersheim, daughters of Emperor Otto II. They supported Conrad...