Raz jeszcze o Margareth von der Beke. Przyczynek do kwestii roli kobiet w pielęgnowaniu pamięci o rodzinie

This article is a contribution on the role of women in keeping the memory of the family in the Middle Ages. Margareth von der Beke, a Benedictine nun from Toruń born in Gdańsk, was the youngest of 13 children of Johann and Ursula von der Beke. Her father came to Gdańsk from Cologne in the late 1360s. In unknown circumstances, when his 13 children were already born, he set off on a pilgrimage to Rome, from which he never returned. This information is reported in a notarial instrument of 14 July 1466, issued at the request of Margareth von der Beke. The document was a protest against the decision of Margareth’s nephew David von der Beke to sell the rights to the family chapel of the Eleven Thousand Virgins in St Mary’s Church in Gdańsk to the Gdańsk burgher Philip Bischof.