Herford Abbey - Abbesses

Abbesses

  • Theodrada, Tetta (838 – after 840)
  • Addila (before 844 – after 853)
  • Hedwig (before 858 – after 888)
  • Matilda I (before 908 – after 911; Immedinger)
  • Imma (before 973 – after 995; Billunger)
  • Godesdiu (before 1002 – after 1040; Billunger)
  • Swanhild (before 1051–1076)
  • Gertrud I (before 1138 – after 1139)
  • Jutta (Jutta of Arnsberg; before 1146 – after 1162)
  • Ludgard I (before 1163 – after 1170)
  • Eilika (c. 1212)
  • Gertrud II (Gertrud of Lippe; before 1217 – after 1233)
  • Ida (before 1238 – after 1264)
  • Pinnosa (before 1265 – after 1276)
  • Mechthild II (Mechtild of Waldeck; before 1277 – after 1288)
  • Irmgard (Irmgard of Wittgenstein; before 1290–1323)
  • Lutgard II (Lutgard of Bicken; 1324–1360)
  • Heilwig (Heilwig of Bentheim; 1361)
  • Elisabeth I (Elisabeth of Berg; 1361–1374)
  • Hillegund (Hillegund of Oetgenbach; 1374–1409)
  • Mechthild III (Mechtild of Waldeck; 1409–1442)
    • Margaret of Brunswick-Grubenhagen, rival abbess 1442–1443
  • Margaret I (Margaret of Gleichen; 1443–1475)
    • Jakobe of Neuenahr, rival abbess 1476–1479
  • Anna I (Anna of Hunolstein; 1476–1494)
  • Bonizet (Bonizet of Limburg-Stirum; 1494–1524)
  • Anna II (Anna of Limburg; 1524–1565)
  • Margaret II (Margaret of Lippe; 1565–1578)
  • Felicitas I (Felicitas of Eberstein; 1578–1586)
  • Magdalene I (Magdalene of Lippe; 1586–1604)
  • Felicitas II (Felicitas of Eberstein; 1604–1621)
  • Magdalene II (Magdalene of Lippe; 1621–1640)
  • Sidonia (Sidonia of Oldenburg; 1640–1649)
    • Maria Clara Theresa of Wartenberg, rival abbess 1629–1631
  • Elisabeth II (Elisabeth Luise Juliana of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken; 1649–1667)
  • Elisabeth III (Elisabeth of the Electorate of the Palatinate; 1667–1680)
  • Elisabeth IV (Elisabeth Albertine of Anhalt-Dessau; 1680–1686)
  • Elisabeth V (Elisabeth of Hesse-Cassel; 1686–1688)
  • Charlotte Sophia (Charlotte Sophia of Courland; 1688–1728)
  • Johanna Charlotte (Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau; 1729–1750)
  • Sophia (Sophia of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp; 1750–1764)
  • Frederica Charlotte (Frederica Charlotte of Brandenburg-Schwedt; 1764–1802; d. 1808)

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