Adelaide I, a member of the royal Ottonian dynasty was the second Princess-abbess of Quedlinburg from 999, and Abbess of Gernrode from 1014, and Abbess of Gandersheim from 1039 until her death, as wel
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St Servatius Church, Quedlinburg
Sophia I, a member of the royal Ottonian dynasty, was Abbess of Gandersheim from 1002, and from 1011 also Abbess of Essen. The daughter of Emperor Otto II and his consort Theophanu, she was an importa
Adelaide I, Abbess of Quedlinburg
…by Bishop Arnulf of Halberstadt. In the German royal election of 1002 after the death of her brother Emperor Otto III, Adelaide and her sister Abbess Sophia of Gandersheim acted as true kingmakers, having rejected Margrave Eckard I of Meissen (who discounted their influence) as candidate for kingship. Together with Sophia…
Adelaide of Quedlinburg and Sophia of Gandersheim, by Lucas Cranach (1546)