Siegfried IV, Count of Northeim-Boyneburg and Homburg

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Siegfried IV was the last Count of Northeim-Boyneburg and Homburg. [1] He gave the land at Amelungsborn for the foundation (in the 12th century) of the future Amelungsborn Abbey, a Cistercian monastery, which was officially settled by a community of monks from Altenkamp Abbey.

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References

  1. Große Baudenkmäler Heft 338 Kloster Amelungsborn, Verlag DONAU Druck 5. Auflage 1998, p. 2