Heilwig of Lippe
Heilwig of Lippe, also known as Heilwig of Schaumburg was a German noblewoman. She was countess of Holstein by marriage to Adolf IV of Holstein.
Life
She was a daughter of Lord Herman II of Lippe and his wife, Oda of Tecklenburg.On 14 February 1246, she founded the Cistercian monastery in Herwardeshude, a village at the mouth of the Pepermölenbek, between the later St. Pauli and Altona. The monastery was confirmed by Pope Innocent IV in 1247. This monastery later founded the monasteries In Valle Virgum, also in Herwardeshude, and in 1530, after the reformation, the Monastery of St. John, which still exists as a Protestant nunnery.