This panel is one of a group that originally formed part of a large window in the chapel of St Afra in the convent of Seligenthal, near Landshut (north of Munich) in Germany. Ten of these panels are now in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich. Ludmilla, Duchess of Bavaria, founded the abbey of Selingenthal in 1232 as a house for nuns of the Cistercian Order after her husband, Ludwig I of Kelheim, was assassinated. The convent and church were completed by 1259. The chapel of St Afra was added about fifty years later. We are not certain of the identity of the Agnes on the panel in the Victoria and Albert Museum. One of the Munich panels depicting a woman is inscribed DOMINA ELIZABET DUCISSA BAWARIE. She has been identified as Elizabeth, daughter of Henry XIII, Duke of Lower Bavaria. Elizabeth died as a nun in Seligenthal in 1314. She had a sister called Agnes (1254-1315), who was also a nun. But this Agnes had never married. Another Agnes was the daughter of the founder, Ludmilla. She was married to Otto II, Duke of Bavaria, and was grandmother to Elizabeth. She died in 1269 and was buried in the convent. But this was about 40 years before the panel was created. There is still another Agnes, daughter of Henry III of Silesia. She was the second wife of Otto III (1261-1312), the second duke of Lower Bavaria and son of the Henry XIII mentioned above. Agnes married Otto in 1309 and died in 1361. The panels must date after Elizabeth's birth, which was in 1258. Her death in 1314 may be the reason that the windows were commissioned. The chapel of St Afra was added about this time. If so, this suggests that the Agnes in the panel was the wife of Otto III. Alternatively, if the windows commemorate the foundress, Ludmilla, and her descendents, then the Agnes in this panel could be her daughter, Otto II's wife, who was buried in the convent in 1269. The inscription on the panel refers to Agnes as 'his wife', which indicates that there was once an accompanying panel of the husband. This would enable us to identify Agnes, but unfortunately it no longer survives.