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Elisabeth von Matzingen, known from 1289 and dead on 10 August 1340, in Zurich, was a Swiss abbess. She led the Fraumünster Abbey and, effectively, Zurich itself for 32 years, from 1308 until her death.
Biography
Originally from a family of barons in Thurgau, she became known in Zurich starting in 1289, when she was mentioned as a nun at the Fraumünster Abbey. She became abbess in 1308, succeeding Elisabeth von Spiegelberg.
She oversaw the repair of the abbey church, which had been in poor condition since a fire in 1289. Some of her official acts are preserved, such as the agreement she reached in 1332 regarding tithes with a pastor.