Hirsau Abbey information

Hirsau Abbey, formerly known as Hirschau Abbey, was once one of the most important Benedictine abbeys of Germany. It is located in the Hirsau borough...

William of Hirsau (German: Wilhelm von Hirschau; c. 1030 – 5 July 1091) was a Benedictine abbot and monastic reformer. He was abbot of Hirsau Abbey, for whom...

Hirsau (formerly Hirschau) is a district of the town of Calw in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, located in the south-west portion of the country...

Adalbero of Würzburg and Abbot William of Hirsau. The first monks were also from Hirsau Abbey, home of the Hirsau Reforms (under the influence of the Cluniac...

Conrad of Hirsau or Hirschau (Latin: Conradus Hirsaugiensis; c. 1070 – c. 1150) was a German Benedictine monk and writer at the Hirsau Abbey. He is known...

from Hirsau Abbey, of which the new monastery was a priory, founded as it was against the background of the Investiture Controversy and the Hirsau Reforms...

systematic access to the monastery's documents. Personalities mentioned in the Hirsau gift register include Conrad I of Württemberg. Stephan Molitor: Das Reichenbacher...

informed by Benedictine custom and follows after the plans of the abbeys of Cluny and Hirsau. Much of the monastery was constructed between 1125 and 1133 in...

bequeathed their property and all revenues from Botnang to Hirsau Abbey. In 1281, Hirsau sold its ownership of Botnang to Bebenhausen Monastery. In 1418...

family is in 1120, when one Egilolf von Hohenheim made a donation to Hirsau Abbey. One Cunradus de Hohenheim miles cognomine Bambast ("Conrad von Hohenheim...

as the abbeys of Sankt Trudpert, St. Peter and St. Märgen. Alpirsbach Abbey and the ruined Hirsau Abbey were built of red sandstone in the Hirsau style...

Historia's list of the 12 battles of King Arthur (approximate date). Hirsau Abbey (modern Germany) is founded by the Rhenish Franconian count Erlafried...

prepared for an ecclesiastical career and was sent to school, probably in Hirsau Abbey or one of its filial monasteries. When in 1082 the Salian princess Judith...

was founded in 1087 as a priory of Hirsau Abbey against the background of the Investiture Controversy and the Hirsau Reforms, by the monks who had previously...

It was settled by monks from Hirsau Abbey and soon evolved as a centre of the Hirsau Reforms in Thuringia. Like Hirsau, the Reinhardsbrunn monastery...

the Investiture Controversy and the Hirsau Reforms. The first abbot, Adzelinus, and monks were from Hirsau Abbey. Abbot Fabri was closely involved with...

from around 1075 (and again at about 1083) at the Abbey of Cluny (in what is now France), and Hirsau Abbey (in what is now Germany) at around the same time...

charter is dated 1122. The new foundation was settled by monks from Hirsau Abbey. The first abbot was Ekkehard of Aura, a monk from Bamberg, famous as...

the chapel of Saint Nazarius at Hirsau to the Church of St. Aurelius at Hirsau Abbey and formally consecrated the abbey church. During the years 838–839...

chronicle of Sponheim and culminating in a two-volume work on the history of Hirsau Abbey. His work was distinguished by mastery of the Latin language and eloquent...

Hohenheim. The first mention of Hohenheim is in a donation of some land to Hirsau Abbey by Egilof von Hohenheim. The castle was sold by the von Hohenheim family...

In 1085, he founded the monastery of Reinhardsbrunn with monks from Hirsau Abbey. In 1092, Pope Urban II confirmed him as advocatus of the monastery and...