Anna Germundsdotter
Anna Germundsdotter or Girmundsdotter (
Life
Anna Germundsdotter was from
In 1518, she was elected abbess by a majority of votes from the monks but a minority of votes from the nuns of the double convent, but the bishop granted her the election victory and had her installed as abbess. She hosted king Christian II of Denmark in 1521.
In circa 1526, the famous scandal about
In 1529, two monks and their confessor attended the Örebro Synod, and was noted to have changed their sympathies to the Protestant reformers. The same year, Anna Germundsdotter chose to resign as abbess and retire as an ordinary member of the convent.
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References
- Syster Patricia, OSsS 2003: ”Vadstena klosters abbedissor”. I: Beskow, Per & Annette Landen (red.) Birgitta av Vadstena. Pilgrim och profet 1303–1373. Natur och Kultur, Stockholm. S. 297–314.
- Historiskt bibliotek utgifvet af Carl Silfverstolpe
- http://www.sofi.se/images/smp/pdf/germund.pdf[permanent dead link]
- Vadstena klosters minnesbok [microform] Diarium vazstenense (1918)
- http://www.nordlund.lu.se/Fornsvenska/Fsv%20Folder/Person.html