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Zwolle, Canons Regular: Agnietenberg
This monument for Thomas a Kempis, author of De Imitatione Christi, has been erected at the Mount St Agnes cemetery, which occupies the place of the monastery Full Map on Geoplaza.
IDNR: Z27
Parish: Zwolle
Municipality: Zwolle
Patron Saint: Agnes
Alias: Agnietenberg (Mount St Agnes). Bergklooster
Diocese: Utrecht
Diocese II: -
Province: Oversticht
Province II:
Gender: m
Development: (a) house in Begijnestraat in Zwolle inhabited by Brethren 1384*
(b) removal to Nemelerberg 1385/6*
(c) Brethren of the Common Life 1395*
(d) monastery of Canons Regular at Dalfsen 1398*; incorporation into Chapter of Windesheim
(e) Canons Regular on Mount St Agnes september 1398*
Filiation: branched off from the Brethren's House of Zwolle (Z28)
End of monastic life: 1561* incorporation with the new bishopric of Deventer; the settlement of affairs lasts till after1580; demolition 1581*
Narrative Sources (CK): 57; 210; 371; 372
Narrative Sources (NS): NL0092; NL0187; NL0216; NL0217; vgl. J213
Manuscripts (SV): 1347-1348; 1456
Archives: HCO: 1089 and division Deventer inventory 1066
Literature: Mon. Wind. III, 15-49; Weiler (1997) 26-27; 55-58; De Kruijf a.o. (2000); Mon. Fratrum VC III 35-40
Third Order: -
Monasticon Batavum: II 41-42 s.v. Dalfsen; II 220-224 s.v. Zwolle nrs. 1 and 10
MeMO: 316
Van Deventer: not
National monument:
Coordinates: 205/506D
Archaeological Monument: 13306
Archaeological Status: hav
Archaeological Activities: 1672 (excav; bones of Thomas a Kempis); survey 1976
Archaeological Publication: Mon. Wind. III 36
First mention: 1384
Last mention: 1580
ENK code: ME-P041-072

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