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A small village just inside the Netherlands, 22 miles (35 km.) north of Maastricht, at the point where the Maastricht corridor joins the main portion of the Dutch state - the Belgian frontier is immediately to the southwest, less than half a mile (1 km.) away. During the time of the Empire, the village hosted a sovereign Benedictine convent. This establishment, like Essen and Quedlinburg, was reserved for ladies of noble birth, as a place of education or retirement. Vows were not required, and in fact many inmates left to marry, including one of the Abbesses (Anna Katharina of Salm Reiffenscheid, who wed Count John of Rietberg in 1647, and had 5 children). The monastery is in a good state of preservation, and the High Altar in the church is one of the most splendid in Europe.

  1. Hildeswinde von Tegen.................................982- ?

  2. Benedicta............................................1010- ?

  3. Godchildis

  4. Adelheid

  5. Elisabeth..........................................  ? -1217

  6. Jutta................................................1217- ?

  7. Hildegund de Born..................................1231-62/9

  8. ?

  9. Guda von Rennenberg (1st Pcss. of the Empire 1292).1273-1304

  10. ?

  11. Margarethe I van Boutersheim.......................1310-1337

  12. Isande, Gfn. v. Wied....................................1337

  13. Margarethe II, Gfn. v. Heinsberg...................1337-1378

  14. Margarethe III van Horne-Perweys.................1389-1404 ?

  15. Mathilde van Horne.........................1404-1446 d. 1459

  16. Jakoba, Gfn. v. Heinsberg..........................1446-1454

  17. Elsa van Büren.....................................1454-1473

  18. Gertrud de Sombreffe...............................1473-1486

  19. Eva, Gfn. v. Isenburg..............................1486-1531

  20. Margarethe IV van Brederode........................1531-1577

  21. Josina I von Manderscheid..........................1577-1579

  22. Josina II, Gfn. v. der Marck-Lumain................1579-1604

  23. Anna, Gfn. v. der Marck-Lumain.....................1604-1631

  24. Josina Walpurgis, Gfn. v. Löwenstein-Rochefort..........1631

  25. Anna Eleonora von Staufen (Abbess Essen 1645-6)....1631-1646

  26. Anna Katherina von Salm-Reiffenscheid......1646-1647 d. 1691

  27. Anna Salome, Gfn. v. Manderscheid-Blankenheim (Essen 1688-91)...1647-1688 d. 1691

  28. vacant

  29. Eleonora Gfn. v. Löwenstein-Rochefort..............1690-1706

  30. Anna Juliane Helene, Gfn. v. Manderscheid-Blankenstein...1706-1717

  31. Franziska Christine, Pfgn. v. Sulzbach (Essen 1721-76)...1717-1776

  32. Maria Kunegunde, Hzgn. v. Sachsen (Essen 1776-1803)...1776-1795 d. 1826

  33. To France..........................................1795-1814

  34. To the Netherlands.....................................1814-