Adelaide II, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Adelaide II (Adelheid of Swabia) (1045 – 11 January 1096) was Abbess of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg.

Adelaide was born in the autumn of 1045 as the first child of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, and Agnes of Poitou, his second wife. In 1061, she was elected successor to her older half-sister, Beatrice, as Imperial Abbess of Gandersheim. Two years later, Adelaide succeeded her half-sister as Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg. She ruled both abbeys as Adelaide II.

Like her half-sister and predecessor, Adelaide II supported the Holy Roman Emperor throughout the long struggle with the Pope. During her reign, a great fire broke out and destroyed the abbey, so she had the foundations reconstructed. In 1088, Adelaide's brother, Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, used the abbey for trial of Egbert of Meissen, who had unsuccessfully laid siege to the convent.^[1]

Adelheid died on 11 January 1096 in Quedlinburg Abbey.

Ancestry

References

1. ↑ McNamara, Jo Ann (1996). Sisters in arms: Catholic nuns through two millennia. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-80984-X. Retrieved 2009-07-08. 

Abbesses of Quedlinburg Roman Catholic abbesses (966–1540) Matilda Adelaide I Beatrice I Adelaide II Eilica Agnes I Gerberga Beatrice II Meregart Adelaide III Agnes II Sophia Bertradis I Cunigunde Osterlinde Gertrud Bertradis II Jutta Luitgard Agnes III Elisabeth I Margaret Irmgard Adelaide IV Anna I Hedwig Magdalene Anna II Lutheran abbesses (1540–1803) Anna II Elisabeth II Anna III Maria Dorothea Dorothea Sophia Anna Sophia I Anna Sophia II Anna Dorothea Marie Elisabeth Anna Amalia Sophia Albertina