Families Klein, Ree, de Breed en de Vries van Terschelling » Gertrudis (de Heilige Gertrud) van Thüringen (1227-1297)

Persoonlijke gegevens Gertrudis (de Heilige Gertrud) van Thüringen 

• Zij is geboren op 29 september 1227 in Wartburg Castle (Near Eisenbach), Thuringia.
• Beroep: Nonne.
• Zij is overleden op 13 augustus 1297 in Kloster Altenberg, Solms Oberbiel, zij was toen 69 jaar oud.
• Zij is begraven in im Chor der Kirche des Klosters Altenberg bei Wetzlar/Solms-Oberbiel.
• Alternatief: Zij is begraven in Altenberg, Hessen.
• Een kind van Lodewijk IV. van Thüringen en Elisabeth (de Heilige) van Hongarije

Gezin van Gertrudis (de Heilige Gertrud) van Thüringen

Notities over Gertrudis (de Heilige Gertrud) van Thüringen

Gertrude was the youngest of Louis and Elizabeth's three children. Her father died while on his way to the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Land">Holy Land, shortly before she was born, which left her mother in distress.

Gertrude was scarcely two years old when her mother left her in the care of the canonesses of the Abbey of Aldenberg, where she later entered the community. In 1248, only 21 years old, she was elected abbess and ruled over the monastery for the next 49 years.

With an inheritance she received from her uncle, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_I,_Margrave_of_Meissen">Dietrich I, Margrave of Meissen, Gertrude erected a church and a poorhouse attached to the abbey. She took personal care of the residents there. She also led a life of extreme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortification_of_the_flesh">mortification. When https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Nicholas_IV">Pope Nicholas IV published a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade">crusade against the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saracens">Saracens, Gertrude and her community took the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusaders%27_cross">Crusaders' cross.

In 1270, under Gertrude's direction, the abbey began to celebrate the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Corpus_Christi">Feast of Corpus Christi, being one of the first to introduce this feast into Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_VI">Pope Clement VI permitted the abbey to celebrate her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_day">feast day and granted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indulgence">indulgences to those who https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veneration">venerated her relics

 

Heeft u aanvullingen, correcties of vragen met betrekking tot Gertrudis (de Heilige Gertrud) van Thüringen?
De auteur van deze publicatie hoort het graag van u!

Tijdbalk Gertrudis (de Heilige Gertrud) van Thüringen

Klik op de namen voor meer informatie. Gebruikte symbolen:  grootouders    ouders    broers/zussen    kinderen