Agnes of LandsbergAgnes has often been referred to in the literature as "Agnes of Meissen and Landsberg", although she did not belong to the Meissen line of the House of Wettin (1192 or 1193 – 1266 in Wienhausen) was a German noblewoman. She was the third child of Conrad II (1159–1210), Margrave of Lusatia, and his wife, Elisabeth ( – 1209), the daughter of Mieszko III the Old (1126–1202), Duke of Poland. She was a daughter-in-law of Henry the Lion.
Life Agnes was the youngest daughter of the ruling family of Landsberg. Her elder brother was Conrad (died before 1210); her sister was Matilda ( – 1225), who married Margrave Albert II of Brandenburg. Agnes married in 1211 to Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine (1173 – 28 April 1277 in Brunswick), the eldest son of Henry the Lion.Wilhelm Bettinghaus: Zur Heimathskunde des Lüneburger Landes, Celle, 1897, p. 20.
Ersch and Gruber had this to say about Agnes and her husband:Johann Samuel Ersch and Johann Gottfried Gruber: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste in alphabetischer Folge, Leipzig, 1828, p. 348
Agnes died in 1266 and was buried in Wienhausen AbbeyKurt Brüning (ed.): Handbuch der historischen Stätten, vol. II: Lower Saxony and Bremen, part I, p. 488However, Stammtafeln says she died in 1248, see: Detlev Schwennicke (ed.): Stammtafeln zur europäischen Geschichte, vol. I, Marburg, 1980, table 41
Founding monasteries Between 1217 and 1221, a, probably wooden, Cistercian monastery was constructed on the lower reaches of the Burgdorfer Aue, near Nienhagen, and populated with nuns from the monastery in Wöltingerode. This was an initiative of Henry and his wife Agnes. The monastery no longer exists, but the place where it stood is still called (i.e. "monastery court"). The place was infested by "water musquitos and poisonous worms" and suffered from "unhealthy, swampy air".Horst Appuhn: Chronik des Klosters Wienhausen mit Totenbuch, 2nd ed., Celle, 1986, p. 3 After about the years, the monastery was moved to Wienhausen. In 1233, the Bishop of Hildesheim confirmed the rights of Wienhausen Abbey.
in 1243, Agnes founded a monk's monastery in Isenhagen. It was later converted to the Cistercian Isenhagen Abbey.
Domus Ottonis Duke Otto the Child gave his aunt Agnes a house, named (i.e. "Otto's house") in the city of Cell, with all the farmland and forests that belonged to it, with permission to leave the house and the lands to Wienhausen Abbey in her will.Archive of Wienhausen Abbey, deed 27 / original 21 This house was probably built as a hunting lodge for Otto when his aunt stille lived at Altencelle castle. After Agnes's death, the house came into the possession of Wienhausen Abbey, who would rent it out.
References Matthias Blazek, supported by Wolfgang Brandis, archivist of Lüneburg Abbey: Dorfgeschichte Ottenhaus — Eine Spurensuche, Celle, 2005 Matthias Blazek: Nienhagen wurde als 'indagonoua' erstmals urkundlich genannt, in a bundle published on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of theSportverein Nienhagen 1928 e.V., 2003, p. 142 ff Jürgen Gedicke: Nienhagen – Geschichte eines niedersächsischen Dorfes, vol. 1, Nienhagen, 1990, p. 17 ff
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