Herrad of Landsberg
Deceased Person
1130 – 1195
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Who was Herrad of Landsberg?
Herrad of Landsberg was a 12th-century Alsatian nun and abbess of Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains. She is known as the author of the pictorial encyclopedia Hortus deliciarum.
Born about 1130 at the castle of Landsberg, the seat of a noble Alsatian family. She entered the Hohenburg Abbey in the Vosges mountains, about fifteen miles from Strasbourg, at an early age. She became abbess there in 1167 and continued in that office until her death.
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- Born
- 1130
Alsace - Also known as
- Herrade of Landsberg
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Died
- Jul 25, 1195
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on July 23, 2013
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