Category
page 1Abbesses of Gandersheim
Therese of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and abbess of Gandersheim Abbey
Adelaide I
11th-century Princess-abbess of Quedlinburg

Sophia I
Abbess of Gandersheim

Beatrice I, Abbess of Quedlinburg
Princess-Abbess of Quedlinburg from 1044 to 1061
Augusta Dorothea of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
German politician (1749-1810), Abbess of Gandersheim
Gerberga II
Abbess of Gandersheim from 956 to 1001
Adelaide II, Abbess of Quedlinburg
Abbess of Gandersheim and Quedlinburg
Elisabeth von Sachsen-Meiningen
German aristocrat (1681-1766)
Hathumod
Hathumoda (840 – November 874) was a Saxon noblewoman who became the first abbess of Gandersheim. Her family, the Liudolfings, founded the Gandersheim Abbey, and she was cloistered since childhood. After she died in an epidemic, there was an unsuccessful attempt to promote her as a saint.
==Origin and childhood==
Hathumoda was born in 840. Her parents were Count Liudolf of Saxony and the Frankish noblewoman Oda. Hathumoda's family, the Liudolfings, were rich and powerful. Their ancestors had only recently been converted to Christianity, which may explain Hathumoda's name (spelt variously as Ha
Clara of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Abbess of Gandersheim, later Duchess of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
Henriette Christine von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel
(1669-1753)
Princess Christina II, Princess Abbess of Gandersheim
Mecklenburger-Schwerinese Royal