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The study shows that the the Virgin Mary as well as the apostles Peter and Paul were patron saints of Cappenberg from the start. It has not been decided yet if they were the patron saints of the chapel of the castle, but it is possible. The Virgin Mary, who was especially honoured by the Premonstratensian Order, came to the fore quite early. In documents from the twelfth century and the beginning of the thirteenth century, the scribes of Cappenberg referred to the apostles Peter and Paul quite often, however. Only under the provost Otto II of Cappenberg (1156-1171) the apostle John became important for the monastery and replaced the apostles Peter and Paul. He was established as a patron saint besides the Virgin Mary. It cannot be proved that there was an altar dedicated to Saint Augustine or that the bishop of Hippo was a patron saint of Cappenberg before the thirteenth century.
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The Premonstratensian Order was brought to Bohemia and Moravia by bishop Henry Zdík of Olomouc (1126-1150). He founded the Strahov monastery in Prague about 1142, to which end he asked an abbot and convent from the Steinfeld monastery in the Eifel. He then long supported the introduction of Norbertines in the Zeliv monastery near the Bohemian-Moravian border, a monastery that was originally founded for Benedictine monks. Bishop Daniel of Prague (1148-1167) had applied to Steinfeld for a monastery in the year 1148. The 33-year-old canon Gottschalk from Cologne, whose long-lived chaplain Gerlach, the future abbot of Milevsko, left an eloquent memorial for him in the so-called Continuatio Gerlaci, was destined to be the abbot. In 1149 he was sent to Zeliv together with a convent. Very soon a women’s convent followed from Dünnwald, a daughter convent of Steinfeld. Among the letters of Ulrich, provost of Steinfeld, from the years ca. 1152 - ca. 1159 one can also find letters to the abbots of Zeliv and Strahov. Next to the women’s convent Lounovice, abbot Gottschalk founded as a daughter monastery the monastery of Geras in Lower Austria and the nearby women’s convent Pernegg, as well as the women’s convent Kounice in Moravia shortly before his death († 1184). In the archives of Steinfeld there are communications about abbatial elections in Zeliv. Zeliv remained a daughter monastery of Steinfeld until it perished in 1567. At the revival of Zeliv in the year 1643 it came under the Strahov monastery.
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The view of knighthood and war in the work of Philipp of Harvengt is ambivalent. Essentially to a spiritual interpretation is the biblical typology (especially Ehud, David, Joshua, Judas Maccabaeus). Philipp does not dissolve the medieval class structure of the three ordines, but emphasizes the pre-eminence of the clergy. Chivalry has to serve the Church, which is quite usual for authors of the Gregorian Reform. However, a difference between class and behaviour can be observed regarding to both knights and monks. Monastic behaviour is transferred to the secular ideal of the miles litteratus; by literary education in the school, a knight becomes a clericus. Chivalry and war cannot simply be used as models of reflection in canonical life and spiritual warfare, while some knightly virtues, founded in biblical imagery, are important for the spiritual warfare in the monastery, especially bravery and obedience. Literary education and holiness are principles which superseded the rigid medieval class structure.
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