Agnes of Limburg-Styrum

Agnes von Limburg Bronkhorst Styrum (* September 18, 1563 at Kasteel de Wildenborch; † January 2, 1645 in Vreden ) was abbess of the pins Elten, Vreden, Borg Horst and Freckenhorst.

Life

She was descended from the noble Limburg- Styrum. Her father was Hermann Georg von Limburg and Bronkhorst, Mr. Styrum on, wiping and Borculo. The mother was Mary Countess of Hoya. Her sister Metta was also abbess in Freckenhorst.

She stepped into the pen Elten at a young age. She was provost in 1596 Vreden. In 1603 she became abbess of Elten. Later, she was abbess of the pins Vreden, Borg Horst and since 1614 Freckenhorst. They resided mostly in Vreden.

At the beginning of their term of office, all four pins in a bad condition. Partial life was secularized, partly they were suffering from the after-effects of past wars. Agnes von Limburg- Stirum has caused in all pens for reforms. Partially in ruins buildings were torn down and started with a new building in Elten. In Borghorst they had built a new abbey buildings.

In 1619 she founded the Vredener hunger cloth Vreden. The cloth shows eleven figurative Passion Pictures. At the center of the image of the crucifixion is. When incorporated, the reference to the founder: " Agnes, by God's grace Abbess to Elten, Vreden, Freckenhorst and Borg Horst, Countess of Limburg and Bronckhorst, this ornament is made ​​in honor of the Passion of Christ and the Church of St. Felicitas founded in the year of the Lord 1619th " it also contains 16 coats of arms of the ancestors of the abbess.

A part of her working life coincided with the Thirty Years' War. Due to their family connections to both Protestant and Catholic camps also, she could occasionally prevent raids into their sphere of influence. Even with other measures it tried to prevent the entry of foreign soldiers. She has also, when necessary held arrangements of the Government of the Bishopric of Münster opposes about it. In the case of an Anabaptist -minded miller she has resisted his arrest, because this arrangement made ​​of Munster had their rights violated.

She was buried in the collegiate church of Vreden.