Adelaide II, Abbess of Quedlinburg

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Adelaide II
Tombstone of Princess Adelaide II
Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg
Reign1063 – 11 January 1096
PredecessorBeatrix I
SuccessorEilica
Born1045
Died11 January 1096
Quedlinburg Abbey
Burial
Quedlinburg Abbey
HouseSalian Dynasty (by birth)
FatherHenry III, Holy Roman Emperor
MotherAgnes of Poitou
ReligionRoman Catholic

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

Family of Adelaide II, Abbess of Quedlinburg
16. Otto I, Duke of Carinthia
8. Henry of Speyer
17. Judith of Bavaria
4. Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor
18. Richard, Count of Metz
or
Gerhard of Metz
9. Adelaide of Metz
2. Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
20. Conrad I, Duke of Swabia
10. Herman II, Duke of Swabia
21. Richlind of Saxony
5. Gisela of Swabia
22. Conrad of Burgundy
11. Gerberga of Burgundy
23. Matilda of France
1. Adelaide II, Abbess of Quedlinburg
24. William III, Duke of Aquitaine
12. William IV, Duke of Aquitaine
25. Adele of Normandy
6. William V, Duke of Aquitaine
26. Theobald I of Blois
13. Emma of Blois
27. Luitgarde of Vermandois
3. Agnes of Poitou
28. Adalbert of Italy
14. Otto-William, Count of Burgundy
29. Gerberga of Mâcon
7. Agnes of Burgundy
30. Renaud of Rheims and Roucy
15. Ermentrude of Roucy
31. Albérade of Hennegau

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.
Regnal titles
Preceded by Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg
1063 – 11 January 1096 		Succeeded by
Abbess of Gandersheim
1061 – 11 January 1096 		Succeeded by
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