Katharina Von Bora: First Lady of the Reformation
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The legendary life of Katharina von Bora Luther!
Born in 1499, Katharina started her education at first the convent at Brehna, then continued it in Kloster Nimbschen where she took vows as a nun at the age of sixteen and expected to live the whole of her life.
God, however, had other plans. On Easter Eve 1523 she escaped with eleven other nuns to Wittenberg, a move meant to be temporary until a more permanent home could be found for her. What happened next changed the world in this family story filled with music in the original German.
Laurel A. Rockefeller
Born, raised, and educated in Lincoln, Nebraska USA Laurel A. Rockefeller’s passion for animals comes through in everything she writes. First self-published in 2012 as social science fiction author (the Peers of Beinan series), Laurel has expanded her work into the animal care/guide, history, historical fiction, and biography genres.Find Laurel’s books in digital, paperback, and hardcover in your choice of up to ten languages, including Welsh, Chinese, and Dutch. Audio editions are published in all four available languages for audible: English, French, Spanish, and German.Besides advocating for animals and related environmental causes, Laurel A. Rockefeller is a passionate educator dedicated to improving history literacy worldwide, especially as it relates to women’s accomplishments. In her spare time, Laurel enjoys spending time with her cockatiels, travelling to historic places, and watching classic motion pictures and classic television series.
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Katharina Von Bora - Laurel A. Rockefeller
Katharina Von Bora
First Lady of the Reformation
By Laurel A. Rockefeller
Cover art painted by Lucas Cranach (1526).
This book is based on events in the life of Katharina von Bora Luther and constructed using primary and secondary historical sources, commentary, and research. Except when quoting primary sources, dialogue and certain events were constructed and/or reconstructed for dramatization purposes according to the best available research data.
Consulted sources appear at the end of this book. Interpretation of source material is at the author’s discretion and utilized within the scope of the author’s imagination, including names, events, and historical details.
©2022 by Laurel A. Rockefeller
All Rights Reserved.
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter One: The nun from Kloster Nimbschen
Chapter Two: The Quest to Find a Husband
Chapter Three: Mein Herr Käthe
Epilogue
Featured Songs
Medieval Time
Timeline
Bibliography
Prologue
C'est un rempart que notre Dieu, Une invincible armure, Notre délivrance en tout lieu, Notre défense sûre,
sang Anne Rochefeuille as she played on the harpsichord at the Château in Avignon. Next to her were scattered open books gleaned from the château’s massive library.
Drawn to the music, Bishop Armand-Jean du Plessis, brother to the Seigneur de Richelieu, sat down near her to listen. Though the song was heretical in any language, or, more exactly, by a heretic, he loved his Anne’s singing dearly. Putting an arm around Anne, he kissed the back of her neck affectionately, Bon matins, ma chérie.
Anne stopped the music to turn and kiss him properly, Bon matins, Armand.
Why are you playing that particular song? And these books? Anne! These are all about that heretic Martin Luther and his wife Katharina von Bora!
I want to know how they managed, Armand.
How they managed what?
Katharina and Martin both took vows to the church. She was a nun. He was a monk. But they loved each other and married. As I love you and you love me! You are far more than the Bishop of Luçon. We wouldn’t be exiled here over your service to the queen mother otherwise. But King Louis and his mother Queen Marie de Medici don’t know I am more to you than simply your nurse.
No, they don’t. God help us both if they or anyone else knew the true nature of our relationship,
agreed Armand. We’ve so far managed to keep our relationship an oddly open secret. Open that we live together and are loyal to each other, that I depend on you to keep me alive when I am sick. But the rest? They do not and must never know.
Armand picked up one of the open books in front of him, That still does not explain your desire to learn more about Luther and von Bora.
Anne met his eyes, You don’t like Martin Luther, do you?
No! I don’t! His heresies have plunged Christendom into decades of civil wars, especially in the Holy Roman Empire and across France. Where there once was one, true, and universal Church there are now dozens of different versions of Christianity.
Luther was hardly the first heretic –or reformer, depending on how you choose to look at it,
countered Anne.
True, he was not the first. But his heresies, his dogmatic refusal to submit to papal authority has turned the world upside down, triggering full scale wars of religion across not only the Empire of the Romans, but France and elsewhere. Look at how much France has suffered since the Lutheran heresies spread beyond the borders of the Empire. My own family bankrupted by supporting the kings. If my mother were not so frugal and if not for King Henri’s kindness to us….
Armand stopped. None of his frustrations were Anne fault nor could she help that her family, being middle-classed merchants from Lyon, allied themselves with the Huguenots. Hers was not a catholic upbringing, as much as she tried to stay neutral on matters of religion. For Anne, the sacraments that gave Armand so much comfort and pleasure were almost entirely alien. Even keeping her own conscience and supporting him by attending mass with him changed little. The true religion was filled with customs and traditions that Anne simply could not fully embrace, even out of love