[452] Comp. below, ch. 6, § 1.
[453] Luentzel, Geschichte der Diöcese und Stadt Hildesheim, 1858, vol. 1, p. 67, quoting ‘Reimchronik,’
‘Dat Bog segt, dat se so vele Wisheit konde,
Dat se ok wol gelerden Meistern wedderstunde.’
[454] Harenberg, Historia Ecclesiae Gandersh., 1734, vol. 1, p. 626 ff.
[455] Luentzel, Geschichte der Diöcese und Stadt Hildesheim, vol. 1, p. 319.
[456] ‘De fundatione Brunswilarensis’ (in Pertz, Mon. Germ. Scriptores, vol. 11, p. 394 footnote); Adelheid was abbess of Nivelles, Mathilde of Villich and Diedenkirchen, Theofanu of Essen, Hedwig of Neuss; Sophie and Ida, to whom reference has been made in the text, are said by Pertz to have presided over Gandersheim and St Maria at Cöln; Sophie certainly did not become abbess at Gandersheim, perhaps she went to Mainz; Ida probably presided over the convent of St Maria on the Münzenberg, a dependency of Gandersheim.
[457] Waitz, G., Deutsche Verfassungsgeschichte, 1868, vol. 7, p. 258.
[458] Reichstage, 1548-1594.
[459] Fritsch, Geschichte des Reichstifts Quedlinburg, 1828, vol. 1, p. 259.
[460] Luentzel, Geschichte der Diöcese und Stadt Hildesheim, 1858, vol. 1, p. 67.