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  Abdij van Thorn - Wikipedia
Ansfried en Hilsondis op ramen van de abdijkerk
De abdij van Thorn was een rijksabdij of sticht in het Heilige Roomse Rijk, gelegen in Thorn (Limburg).
Zij werd rond 975 gesticht als benedictinessenklooster door graaf Ansfried van Utrecht en zijn echtgenote Hereswind, ook wel Hilsondis genoemd.
nl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abdij_van_Thorn   (212 words)

  
  Ansfried
Ansfried was een ridder die faam maakte in zijn succesvolle strijd tegen de Noormannen en tegen diverse opstandige edelen in Brabant.
In deze akte, gedateerd 7 oktober 950, schenkt koning Otto I aan zijn leenman Ansfried het markt- en muntrecht te Kessel.
Het lichaam van Ansfried werd in een bootje gelegd om naar Utrecht te worden gebracht.
home.planet.nl /~dijkh287/kastelen/artikel/ansfried.htm   (1356 words)

  
 Hotel Utrecht
Utrecht University (''Universiteit Utrecht'' in Dutch) is a university in Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Utrecht is a municipality and the capital city of the Dutch province of Utrecht.
Utrecht is famous for the Dom Tower of Utrecht and the canal structure in the inner city.
www.artistbooking.com /trips/98/hotel-utrecht.html   (1524 words)

  
 Ansfried of Utrecht
Bishop Ansfried of Utrecht was the sword-bearer for Otto the Great, Holy Roman Emperor[?].
Before that Ansfried had founded the abbey of Thorn, near the present-day border between Belgium and the Netherlands.
In the abbey of Thorn, Ansfried invested his daughter as abbess.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/an/Ansfried_of_Utrecht.html   (79 words)

  
 Atlantic Trio Norsk - English
The cellist Ansfried Plat studied at the conservatory of Groningen and later with Jean Decroos at the Royal Dutch Conservatory of The Hague.
Ansfried Plat is a very popular chamber music player whose career has lead him through most European countries.
Cellisten Ansfried Plat studerte ved konservatoriene i Groningen og Den Haag hos solocellisten i Concertgebouworkestret, Jean Decroos.
www.atlantictrio.com /norsk.htm   (717 words)

  
 Erwin Troost zijn weblog.nl
De geschiedenis van Thorn hangt nauw samen met die van de abdij van Thorn.
Deze werd rond 975 gesticht als benedictinessenklooster door Ansfried van Utrecht.
Het klooster in Thorn groeide uit tot een wereldlijk sticht, en later tot een klein vorstendom.
erwintroostzijn.web-log.nl   (6871 words)

  
 Thorn
Thorn staat bekend als het witte dorp vanwege de huizen met witte muren in het centrum.
Thorn werd rond 975 gesticht als bendictinessenklooster door bisschop Ansfried van Utrecht.
Het klooster groeide uit tot een wereldlijk stift, en later tot een klein vorstendom.
www.teachersparadise.com /ency/nl/wikipedia/t/th/thorn.html   (135 words)

  
 Low Countries   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Comprising the lands around the Rhine delta and extending north to the Frisian coast, these regions have had an influence on European and world history all out of proportion to their size, owing to their strategic location and the patient enterprise of the inhabitants.
Utrecht was never able to exert much influence over the region, and by circa 1220 it ceases entirely to be mentioned as a player.
By the beginning of the 12th century, the old line of Counts being extinct and Utrecht and Holland unable to fill the vacuum, local internal squabbling had reached the point of chronic civil war.
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 Utrecht Paints -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1122, with the Concordat of Worms, the emperor's right of investiture was annulled, and the cathedral chapter received the right to the election of his bishop.
In 1527, the Bishop sold his territories to Emperor Charles V and the principality became part of the Habsburg dominions; the chapters voluntarily transferred their right of electing the bishop to Charles, and Pope Clement VII gave his consent to the proceeding.
In 1559 Utrecht was raised to the rank of an archdiocese and metropolitan see with six suffragan dioceses, but this new ecclesiastical assett had not a long existence.
www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/154/utrecht-paints.html   (1521 words)

  
 Louvain   (Site not responding. Last check: )
For Adela, wife of Reginar III († 973), we must assume relationship with Bishop Ansfried of Utrecht, whose father was named Lambert.
Ansfried’s uncle, Ansfried the Elder, had the reputation of holding fifteen counties, a number that is often thought to be exaggerated but may actually have been based on pagi and sub-pagi that at one time or another had existed under separate counts.
Ansfried the Younger was a count before he became a bishop, and in 985 he cooperated in the placement of his county of Huy under suzerainty of the bishop of Liége.
www.personal.psu.edu /users/d/c/dcj121/prosop/counts/countyA/county27.htm   (664 words)

  
 Thorn, Netherlands
It has some fame for its white-washed brick houses.
Thorn started as an abbey in the 10th century, founded by Bishop Ansfried of Utrecht.
It became the smallest independent state in the German Holy Roman Empire.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/th/Thorn,_Netherlands.html   (62 words)

  
 Patron Saints Index: Saint Ansfrid   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 992 he founded a convent at Thorn, Nederlands, which his wife and daughter entered; his daughter eventually became abbess.
He founded a Benedictine monastery at Heiligenberg, Germany, and planned to enter it as a monk, but in 994, in the face of local opposition, he was named bishop of Utrecht, Nederlands by Otto.
Late in life his eyesight began to fail, and by 1006 he was blind; though he kept the title of bishop, he was finally able to retire to the Heiligenberg abbey where he spent his remaining days as a prayerful monk.
www.catholic-forum.com /saintS/saintaij.htm   (254 words)

  
 Baarle Nassau and Baarle Hertog
The name appears for the first time in 992, in a "false charter", when Countess Hilsondis, the wife of Ansfried, donates her properties, including Baarle, to the abbey of Thorn in the Dutch province of Limburg.
At the end of the 12th century, Godfried of Schoten, the Lord (Sieur, Seigneur) of Breda, owned Breda Castle and the territory around the castle extending to the east and north.
In the 12th century Baarle is located in a rather peripheral region in which none of the regional counts (of Holland, Louvain/Brabant, Gelre) or bishops (Utrecht, Liège) enjoys a firm grip on the surrounding territory.
ontology.buffalo.edu /smith/baarle.htm   (2661 words)

  
 Westerlo (Municipality, Province of Antwerp, Belgium)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Ansfried, Count of Toxandria, then appointed Bishop of Utrecht, ceded all his possessions in Westerlo, Olen and Westmeerbeek (today Meerbeke) to two chapters in Utrecht.
The greater arms are topped with a golden crown.
The two shields recall the two former owners of Westerloo, the family of Merode, owner of the domain, and the St. Martin's chapter in Utrecht, owner of the church.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/be-vanws.html   (1163 words)

  
 Low Countries   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Boniface, Archbishop of Mainz, Custodian in Utrecht 753-754 with...
Seat of the Bishopric transferred to Deventer owing to Viking incursions, c.
Seat of the Bishopric transferred to Utrecht, c.
www.hostkingdom.net /netherl.html   (3466 words)

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