Agnes of Landsberg

Agnes of Landsberg (* 1192/93, † 1266 in Vienna Hausen ) was the third child of Konrad II von Landsberg ( 1159-1210 ), Margrave of Lusatia, and his wife, Elisabeth (c. 1153, † 1209), daughter of Mieszko III. (1126-1202), Duke of Poland, and daughter of Henry the Lion.

Life

Agnes was the youngest daughter of the Earl family in Landsberg near Halle, after Konrad (before 1207-1210 ) and Mathilde (around 1190-1225 ), who married Duke Albrecht II (Brandenburg). It was 1211 with Henry I ( " the tall one" ) of the Palatinate, Count Palatine of the Rhine (* 1173, † April 28, 1227 in Braunschweig, Germany ), son of Henry the Lion, church auspices (second marriage of Henry I ).

In Ersch and Gruber (1828 ) states about Agnes and her husband:

When Otto 1218 after a troubled and changing Regirung died at Harzburg without heirs, Henry took over his country in possession, handed the royal insignia Frederick II and retired to Brunswick, where he decided to spend the rest of his days in peace, also declared 1223 his brother William only son, Otto the child, the sole heir of all Guelph Allodialländer in Saxony and died in 1227 from his consort Agnes he had two daughters and one son. letztrem, the second Henry had already ceded the father of the Palatinate, he died but before him in 1214, also seems that Peace II the father taken around this time the county palatine and it has disposed of Duke Ludwig, because there can be found no farther records where he signed himself as Count Palatine, or no plot, where he claimed to 1214 Palatine have further assumed; his two daughters, he married Agnes Duke Otto the Illustrious of Bavaria, Irmgard of Margrave Hermann IV of Baden; also, it is in doubt whether the Gertrud of Brunswick, who was married to Duke Friedrich of the Eastern Empire, was a daughter of our Henry, after his beloved Agnes and son produced with her had died, Henry married a second time to Agnes Landsberg, but there were no children from this marriage.

Duchess Agnes died in 1266 and was buried in Vienna Hausen.

Foundations

In the field of Nienhagen ( Landkreis Celle ), which is still called " cloister ", a possibly wooden convent of the Cistercian Order was built on the lower reaches of the floodplain in the period 1217-1221. This was a foundation of the marriage pair Duke Henry I and Agnes of Landsberg. The monastery was " of Wassermükken and all kinds of worms gifftigen very incommodiret " and had " no healthy Lufft because of sümpfichten Ohrts ". The monastery was occupied by Cistercian nuns from Wöltingerode and relocated after about ten years of its existence to Vienna Hausen. 1233 was confirmed by the Bishop of Hildesheim the rights of the monastery ( Wienhausen ).

The former Cistercian monastery was initially founded in 1243 Isenhagen of Agnes of Landsberg monastery.

Domus Ottonis - Otten House

Duke Otto I the child gave his aunt Agnes of Landsberg a house, "Domus Ottonis " ( Otto's house ) called, together with lands and forests in the Celler urban area in records in 1243 with the authority to be able to leave it to the Wienhausen. The certificate specifies the donation: " land situated in the cell associated with Mark House, Ottenhauß called, with all Terms and Zubehörungen, which are known to have heard from the earliest times to such a home."

Probably Otten house was founded as a hunting lodge or flophouse district for Duke Otto, while his aunt still lived in the castle in Altencelle. After Agnes 's death, the Court came into the possession of the monastery Wienhausen as noble free, kanzleisässiger Sattelhof, tenant farmed.