Adelaide II, Abbess of Quedlinburg

Adelaide II
Tombstone of Princess Adelaide II
Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg
Reign	1063 – 11 January 1096
Predecessor	Beatrix I
Successor	Eilica
Born	1045
Died	11 January 1096 Quedlinburg Abbey
Burial	Quedlinburg Abbey
House	Salian Dynasty (by birth)
Father	Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother	Agnes of Poitou
Religion	Roman Catholic

Adelaide II (Adelheid of Swabia) (1045 – 11 January 1096) was Abbess of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg.

Adelaide was born in the autumn of 1045 as the first child of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, and Agnes of Poitou, his second wife. In 1061, she was elected successor to her older half-sister, Beatrice, as Imperial Abbess of Gandersheim. Two years later, Adelaide succeeded her half-sister as Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg. She ruled both abbeys as Adelaide II.

Like her half-sister and predecessor, Adelaide II supported the Holy Roman Emperor throughout the long struggle with the Pope. During her reign, a great fire broke out and destroyed the abbey, so she had the foundations reconstructed. In 1088, Adelaide's brother, Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, used the abbey for trial of Egbert of Meissen, who had unsuccessfully laid siege to the convent.^[1]

Adelheid died on 11 January 1096 in Quedlinburg Abbey.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Adelaide II, Abbess of Quedlinburg

16. Otto I, Duke of Carinthia               8. Henry of Speyer                       17. Judith of Bavaria               4. Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor                             18. Richard, Count of Metz or Gerhard of Metz               9. Adelaide of Metz                       2. Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor                                   20. Conrad I, Duke of Swabia               10. Herman II, Duke of Swabia                       21. Richlind of Saxony               5. Gisela of Swabia                             22. Conrad of Burgundy               11. Gerberga of Burgundy                       23. Matilda of France               1. Adelaide II, Abbess of Quedlinburg                                         24. William III, Duke of Aquitaine               12. William IV, Duke of Aquitaine                       25. Adele of Normandy               6. William V, Duke of Aquitaine                             26. Theobald I of Blois               13. Emma of Blois                       27. Luitgarde of Vermandois               3. Agnes of Poitou                                   28. Adalbert of Italy               14. Otto-William, Count of Burgundy                       29. Gerberga of Mâcon               7. Agnes of Burgundy                             30. Renaud of Rheims and Roucy               15. Ermentrude of Roucy                       31. Albérade of Hennegau

References

1. McNamara, Jo Ann (1996). Sisters in arms: Catholic nuns through two millennia. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-80984-X. Retrieved 2009-07-08.