• Placed under Imperial protection by Louis the Younger
877 919
• Granted Reichsfreiheit by Henry the Fowler
919
• Sovereignty confirmed by Pope Innocent III, raised to princely status
22 June 1206
• Wolfenbüttel occupied by Schmalkaldic League
1542
• Surrendered reichsfreiheit to Wolfenbüttel
1802
• Occupied by France under Kingdom of Westphalia
1807–13
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Duchy of Saxony
Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Today part of
Germany
Gandersheim Abbey (German: Stift Gandersheim) is a former house of secular canonesses (Frauenstift) in the present town of Bad Gandersheim in Lower Saxony, Germany. It was founded in 852 by Duke Liudolf of Saxony, progenitor of the Liudolfing or Ottonian dynasty, whose rich endowments ensured its stability and prosperity.
The "Imperial free secular foundation of Gandersheim" (Kaiserlich freies weltliches Reichsstift Gandersheim), as it was officially known from the 13th century to its dissolution in 1810, was a community of the unmarried daughters of the high nobility, leading a godly life but not under monastic vows, which is the meaning of the word "secular" in the title.
GandersheimAbbey (German: Stift Gandersheim) is a former house of secular canonesses (Frauenstift) in the present town of Bad Gandersheim in Lower Saxony...
under the Ottonian dynasty. She was born in Bad Gandersheim to Saxon nobles and entered GandersheimAbbey as a canoness. She is considered the first female...
of Bad Gandersheim consists of the following subdivisions based on the surrounding villages: The town dates back to 852, when GandersheimAbbey, a house...
Herzogin von Braunschweig, Princess-Abbesse of Gandersheim, deposed in 1802 following the annexation of Gandersheim by the Duchy of Brunswick. Javad Khan (1786–1804)...
Clus Abbey (Kloster Clus) was an abbey near Bad Gandersheim in Lower Saxony. It was a daughter-house of GandersheimAbbey, having been founded in 1127...
Gandersheim can refer to either: GandersheimAbbey, convent in Lower Saxony (9th century-1810) Bad Gandersheim, town in Lower Saxony, called Gandersheim...
Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Marie Elisabeth became Princess Abbess of GandersheimAbbey, but she died the next year. Marie Elisabeth was the fourth child...
Mainz and the Bishops of Hildesheim concerning the jurisdiction over GandersheimAbbey. It lasted from 987 to 1030, during the reign of the Ottonian emperors...
Buchau Quedlinburg Herford Gernrode Niedermünster Obermünster Burtscheid Gandersheim Thorn The religious houses listed here as List A are those named in the...
garment slows his fall enough that he only sustains minor injuries. GandersheimAbbey in Lower Saxony (modern Germany) is founded by Duke Liudolf of Saxony...
with Bishop Altfrid of Hildesheim founded Brunshausen Abbey, which, once relocated to Gandersheim, rose to a family monastery and burial ground. Liudolf...
Bishop Bernward of Hildesheim and Willigis, concerning the control of GandersheimAbbey. May 10 – Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Muslim scholar (d. 1071) June 21...
regarding the life of Saint Anne from an earlier work by Hrotsvitha of GandersheimAbbey. In the Eastern church, the veneration of Anne herself may go back...
prominent foundations of this sort were Essen Abbey, GandersheimAbbey, Gernrode Abbey, and Herford Abbey, in the last of which the young Queen Mathilda...
Anastasius, to the crypt of the former collegiate church of Gandersheim, now GandersheimAbbey, where most rest until this day. Relics were also brought...
Hildesheim Richenza (born: c. 1298 – died: 26 April 1317), abbess of GandersheimAbbey Magnus, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (born: c. 1304 – died: July...
Michael's Church, Hildesheim (1022), Hildesheim Cathedral (1061), and GandersheimAbbey (1094) form an 11th-century group of churches in Saxony with alternate...
in Eastphalia, where he and Bishop Altfrid of Hildesheim founded GandersheimAbbey in 852. Liudolf became the progenitor of the Saxon ducal, royal and...
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