Adelaide II of Büren (also ''Adelheid II. von Büren''; † 3 November 1220) was the

abbess An abbess (Latin: ''abbatissa''), also known as a mother superior, is the female superior of a community of Catholic nuns in an abbey. Description In the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and Eastern Catholic), Eastern Orthodox, Coptic ...

Gernrode Abbey Gernrode Abbey (german: Stift Gernrode) was a house of secular canonesses ''( Frauenstift)'' in Gernrode in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Gernrode was founded in 959 and was disestablished in the seventeenth century. In the Middle Ages the ...

(r.1207-1220).

Life

Adelaide II was a member of the von Büren dynasty, a noble family which owned property in Büren, Wünnenberg and

Wewelsburg Wewelsburg () is a Renaissance castle located in the village of Wewelsburg, which is a district of the town of Büren, Westphalia, in the ''Landkreis'' of Paderborn in the northeast of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The castle has a triangular ...

. Adelaide was probably elected abbess of Gernrode abbey in early 1207. She is named as abbess in a papal diploma issued in August 1207. During her time as abbess, there was conflict about the appointment of a

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between two

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of the abbey: the brothers Arnold and Frederick of Gernrode. The conflict was settled by Bishop Frederick of Halberstadt on 10 August 1220. Adelaide died on 3 November, probably 1220.von Heinemann, ''Geschichte der Abtei'', p. 18.

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References

*Otto von Heinemann, ''Geschichte der Abtei und Beschreibung der Stiftskirche zu Gernrode''. (H. C. Huch, Quedlinburg 1877). * Hans K. Schulze, ''Das Stift Gernrode''. Unter Verwendung eines Manuskriptes von Reinhold Specht. Mit einem kunstgeschichtlichen Beitrag von Günther W. Vorbrodt. (Mitteldeutsche Forschungen Bd. 38) (Böhlau, Cologne, 1965).

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