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Rijnsburg Abbey ( nl, Abdij van Rijnsburg) was a
Rijnsburg Abbey ( nl, Abdij van Rijnsburg) was a Benedictine
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nunnery in Rijnsburg
Rijnsburg () is a village in the eastern part of the municipality of Katwijk, in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The name means Rhine's Burg in Dutch.
History
The history starts way before the 2th century when there wa ...
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, subdivision_type = Sovereign state
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, active between 1133 until 1574.
History
It was founded byPetronilla of Lorraine
Petronilla of Lorraine ( 1082 – 23 May 1144) was Countess of Holland by marriage to Floris II, Count of Holland, and regent of the County of Holland during the minority of her son Dirk VI in 1121-1129. She was a daughter of Theodoric II, Duke ...
, regent of Holland, in 1133 and was thereafter under the protection of the countesses of Holland. The abbey only accepted female members of the nobility as members. It became the most prestigious women's religious house in Holland and grew very wealthy on donations during the centuries.
On the basis of the handed down liturgical manuscripts it can be established that the Germanic liturgical practices were followed.A.M.J. Zijlstra, 'Egmond revisited. Swiss elements in Dutch Chant Manuscripts' Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis XLV (1995): 3-17
There is almost no reason to assume that the abbey Rijnsburg or its mother house Stötterlingenburg in the Northern Harz have ever belonged to the order of Cluny.
It was pillaged and destroyed in 1574. In the center of Rijnsburg, as part of the current church, only one of the two towers of the Romanesque abbey church remains.
Buried in the abbey of Rijnsburg
* Ada van Holland from Rijnsburg, abbess * Count Dirk VI * Count William I * Count Floris IV * Count Floris VSee also
* List of abbesses * Sint-Adelbert Abbey * Abbey of LoosduinenReferences
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