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Imperial Abbey of Essen
Stift Essen
845–1803
Coat of arms
Status
Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire
Capital
Essen Abbey
Government
Theocracy
Historical era
Middle Ages
• Founded
circa 845
• Gained Imperial immediacy
between 874 and 947 circa 845
• Gained princely status
1228
• Contracted with Duchy of Cleves and County of Mark over Vogtei
1495
• Joined Westphalian Circle
1512
• Occupied by the Kingdom of Prussia
1802
• Annexed by Prussia
1803–06/7 and from 1813 1803
• Awarded to Berg
1806/7—1813
Succeeded by
Kingdom of Prussia
Today part of
Germany
Cloister of the abbey church with the graveyard of the cathedral canons.
Essen Abbey (Stift Essen) was a community of secular canonesses for women of high nobility that formed the nucleus of modern-day Essen, Germany.
A chapter of male priests were also attached to the abbey, under a dean. In the medieval period, the abbess exercised the functions of a bishop, except for the sacramental ones, and those of a ruler, over the very extensive estates of the abbey, and had no clerical superior except the pope.[1]
EssenAbbey (Stift Essen) was a community of secular canonesses for women of high nobility that formed the nucleus of modern-day Essen, Germany. A chapter...
Founded around 845, Essen remained a small town within the sphere of influence of an important ecclesiastical principality, EssenAbbey, until the onset...
Burgplatz in the centre of the city of Essen, Germany. The minster was formerly the collegiate church of EssenAbbey, founded in about 845 by Altfrid, Bishop...
city of Essen, Germany. 845 – EssenAbbey founded (approximate date). 971 – Mathilde, granddaughter of Otto I becomes abbess of EssenAbbey. 1012 – Sophia...
The Bishop of Essen is seated in Essen Cathedral (Essener Dom or Essener Münster), once the church of EssenAbbey, and over one thousand years old. The...
for the coronation of Otto III in 983 and had been gifted to EssenAbbey by him. EssenAbbey, under the leadership of Abbess Mathilde, who was a granddaughter...
Saints Cosmas and Damian, also known as the Sword of Essen, is a ceremonial weapon in EssenAbbey. The sword itself dates to the mid 10th century, the...
most prominent foundations of this sort were EssenAbbey, Gandersheim Abbey, Gernrode Abbey, and Herford Abbey, in the last of which the young Queen Mathilda...
July 1776 in Essen) was the Princess-abbess of EssenAbbey and Thorn Abbey. She led EssenAbbey from 1726 to 1776, the longest of any Essen abbess. Her...
for 46 years. During this time, she resided in EssenAbbey for four years, but never in Thorn. The abbey district contained a curia building for the deaconess...
Württemberg, 1803 Maria Kunigunde Herzogin von Sachsen, Princess-Abbesse of Essen, deposed due to annexation by Prussia, 1802 Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I (Fakr...
abbess at EssenAbbey in Essen, Germany. Fortuna's military elite family migrated to South America as a child and given to the abbess by Essen businessman...
century. A Benedictine monk, he became Bishop of Hildesheim, and founded EssenAbbey. He was also a close royal adviser to the East Frankish King Louis the...
7.00472 Werden Abbey (German: Kloster Werden) was a Benedictine monastery in Essen-Werden (Germany), situated on the Ruhr. Near Essen Saint Ludger founded...
association of the ministeriales of the EssenAbbey and the citizens of the town of Essen arrange for the Essen Town Walls to be erected. 1248 – The free...
1198. Its predecessor, the sword of Otto III, is also preserved, in the EssenAbbey treasury. The first known explicit mention of the sword dates to 1315...
relationship between the Liudolfing royal house and EssenAbbey. Mathilde became Abbess of Essen in 973 and her brother died in 982, so the cross is assumed...
century, originating from what is now Essen. Starting around 1200, the dynasty's members were marshals of the EssenAbbey, associated with overseeing the game...
inlaid with a double scroll pattern. The Sword of Essen is a 10th-century sword preserved at EssenAbbey, decorated with gold plating at the close of the...
enamels), is a processional cross in the Essen Cathedral Treasury which was created under Mathilde, Abbess of Essen. The name refers to its principal decorations...
Theophanu from her period as abbess. All were made for EssenAbbey, now Essen Cathedral, and are kept in Essen Cathedral Treasury, where this cross is inventory...
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