Andreas I. (Metten)

Andreas I. OSB († 1435 in Metten ) was a German Benedictine and abbot in Metten Monastery .

biography

Like his predecessor Peter I, Abbot Andreas I also tries to secure the legal position of the monastery. Therefore, in 1431, he left the existing rights and possessions of the monastery to Duke Heinrich XVI. confirm the rich of Bavaria-Landshut. It is not certain whether Abbot Andreas von Metten was involved in a submission of other abbots from the diocese of Regensburg to the Council of Basel in 1433 , which referred to the high taxes that had to be paid by the abbots and monasteries to the princes. The abbots involved in this petition were then excommunicated by the council. An exact date of death of Abbot Andreas is not known. His tombstone appears to have been used later in the construction of the south tower of the monastery church as part of the staircase.

literature

• Wilhelm Fink : History of the development of the Benedictine abbey Metten. Vol. 1: The professorship book of the abbey (studies and communications on the history of the Benedictine order and its branches. Supplementary booklet 1,1), Munich 1927, p. 27f. [seen here with his successor Andreas II as one person]
• Michael Kaufmann: Chronicle of Metten Abbey 766–2016 , St. Ottilien 2016, pp. 182–184.
• Rupert Mittermüller : The Metten Monastery and its Aebte . Straubing 1856, p. 102f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Peter I (Metten)	Abbot of Metten Monastery 1427–1435	Andrew II (Metten)