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| name = Agnes of Brunswick-Grubenhagen
| alt = See caption
| image = Agnes_of_Brunswick-Grubenhagen.jpg
| caption = Portrait from the family tree of the House of Pomerania, 1598
| house = [[House of Guelph]]
| father = [[Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen]]
| mother = Elisabeth of Brunswick-Göttingen
| spouse =
| birth_date = {{circa|1406}}
| birth_place =
| death_date = {{death date|1439|11|18|df=yes}}
| death_place =
| burial_place = Abbey church in [[Gandersheim Abbey]]
}}
'''Agnes of Brunswick-Grubenhagen''' (born: {{circa|1406}}; died: 18 November 1439) was, from 1412 to 1439, [[abbess]] of [[Gandersheim Abbey]] as '''Agnes II'''.
== Life ==
She was a daughter of [[Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen]].  She was about six years old when she was elected abbess of [[Gandersheim Abbey]].  The pope confirmed Agnes's election while she was a minor, however, he appointed a dean of the Abbey as her guardian and regent.  Around 1425, Agnes began to rule without a regent.
She died in 1439 and was buried in the abbey church.
== Guelph inheritance division ==
In connection with the [[Principality of Calenberg#Welf inheritance divisions|Guelph inheritance division]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LrLr_mguE6kC&q=Agnes+II.+Braunschweig-Grubenhagen+Gandersheim&pg=PA320|author=Hans Goetting|title=Das Bistum Hildesheim|year=1973|page=111|publisher=Walter de Gruyter & Co.|location=Berlin|isbn=3110042193|language=German}}</ref> after the Lords of [[Homburg Castle|Homburg]] died out, she transferred the castle and town of [[Bad Gandersheim|Gandersheim]] and the castles of [[Seesen]] and [[Stauffenburg]] to [[Otto II, Duke of Brunswick-Göttingen|Otto II of Brunswick-Göttingen]].  She transferred [[Asseburg Castle]], [[Gifhorn]], Castle and City of [[Lüneburg]], [[Greene Castle]], Lüthorst, one half of the [[fief]] of [[Homburg Castle|Homburg]], [[Lauenstein Castle]], and the former [[County of Wernigerode]] to [[William I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8EEOAAAAQAAJ|quote=urkundenbuch sudendorf.|title=Urkundenbuch zur Geschichte der Herzöge von Braunschweig und Lüneburg und ihrer Lande|author=Hans Friedrich Georg Julius Sudendorf|year=1862|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8EEOAAAAQAAJ/page/n234 71]|publisher=Carl Rümpler|location=Hannover|language=German}}</ref>
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[[Category:15th-century German nuns]]
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[[Category:Abbesses of Gandersheim]]
[[Category:Daughters of dukes]]
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