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Frauen nach Jerusalem. Weibliche Pilger zum Heiligen Grab in den Registern der Poenitentiaria Apostolica 1439–1503
Abstract The fact that women also numbered among the pilgrims to Jerusalem in the late Middle Ages is known from numerous travel reports. But female fellow travellers, if mentioned at all, are generally dismissed by the male authors with few remarks, without giving us their names and origins (only Margery Kempe, the English pilgrim, is well known from her own travel report). This opportunity is now opened up by the registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary: at long last they give the female Jerusalem pilgrims an identity. In such a case, the reason for a supplication was either the request to enter the Holy Land (papal permission was necessary because its soil was Muslim, even the shipowners of the Venetian pilgrim galleys needed this licentia) or the request for absolution from the vow to travel to Jerusalem, which could not be carried out and had often been passed on from the deceased husband. From the 34 supplications, see appendix, preserved from between 1439 and 1490, we learn the names, status, origin, often other circumstances (companions, travel group, occasion, early termination of the trip).
