The Vilich Abbey (German St. Adelheidis Stift) is a former monastery located in North Rhine-Westphalia.
The married couple Megingoz of Guelders and Gerberga, granddaughter of Charles the Simple, founded the convent of Vilich.
[2] The couple's only son Gottfried died in 976/977, in the crusade in Bohemia under Otto II, and they built the church to commemorate his death.
[4] In 977, Adelaide of Vilich, the youngest daughter of Megengoz and Gerberga, joined the convent at a young age.
Her mother decided to redeem her from the St. Ursula convent in Cologne, in which she had lived as a canoness, with a gift of land.
[5] In 987, Megengoz and his wife Gerberga appealed to the government for a charter for the newly formed convent.
[8] Gerberga first wanted to make the church a Benedictine nunnery, but Adelaide resisted, and the convent started out to be a community of canonesses.
confirmed the property and wealth of the church and attested that the nuns in Vilich still lived under the rule of St. Benedict with a law in 1144.