George I. Angel

Georg I. Engel was abbot of the Waldsassen monastery from 1494 to 1512.

George I was the son of a tin caster from Tachov . Kaspar Brusch wrote differently that he came from Eger . He studied at the University of Leipzig and mastered the Czech language. The alliances of the Landshut War of Succession involved the monastery in disputes, in which the neighboring Margrave Friedrich II , the Bohemian and Hungarian King Vladislav II and Count Palatine Philip took sides. In 1504 the monastery and the associated villages were burned down and devastated by the margrave captain Alexander von Lüchau and Balthasar Pybriczs, who was killed a few days later by subjects of the monastery near Ebnath . The attack on the monastery can be explained by the contingents that the monastery had to provide to the Count Palatine Philip and the fact that Bohemian mercenaries were also in the area. The abbot and some of his followers had fled to Tirschenreuth and returned a little later to rebuild the community. A contemporary witness in Chronicon Waldsassense reports on the horror of the attack .

literature

• Rudolf Langhammer : Waldsassen - monastery and town . Waldsassen 1936, pp. 177-181, 212f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Erhard II. Spede	Abbot of Waldsassen 1494–1512	Andreas Metzl