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Breda, Grauwzusters
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IDNR: B32
Parish: Breda
Municipality: Breda
Patron Saint: -
Alias: Grauwzusters (= Grey Sisters). in 't Valkenberg
Diocese: Liège
Diocese II: Antwerpen
Province: Brabant
Province II:
Gender: f
Development: (a) founded in 1476* by Maria van Loon, Lady of Breda; no Tertiaries, but Sisters of the Common Life, living according to statutes prescribed by Maria van Loon
(b) in 1581* after devastation of the convent buildings during the capture of Breda by the Spanish temporarily housed in the abandoned buildings of the Black Sisters (B33)
(c) in 1629* the possessions are transferred to the Breda (Beguinage B30)
Filiation: visitation a.o. by the Prior Grobbendonk (B) (Chapter of Windesheim)
End of monastic life: extinct shortly after 1581; in 1629: possessions to the Beguinage
Narrative Sources (CK): -
Narrative Sources (NS): -
Manuscripts (SV): -
Archives: -
Literature: Juten (1911); Placidus (1952/1976) 156-157; Paquay (1990); Gooskens (2016) 246-247
Third Order: -
Monasticon Batavum: I 44 nr. 5; S 35 nr. 3
MeMO: -
Van Deventer: -
National monument:
Coordinates: 113/400A
Archaeological Monument: 16798 (tc)
Archaeological Status: hav
Archaeological Activities:
Archaeological Publication:
First mention: 1476
Last mention: 1581
ENK code: ME-Z135-001

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