Heinrich von Gundelfingen (Abbot)

Heinrich von Gundelfingen (* before 1383; † March 1429) was abbot of the Benedictine monastery of St. Gallen from 1411 to 1418 when he resigned . He was the grandfather of Heinrich von Gundelfingen .

Life

Heinrich was a descendant of the same sex as the former abbot of St. Gallen Konrad von Gundelfingen (1288–1291). Heinrich was first mentioned as a monk in St. Gallen when his predecessor was chosen. Heinrich is documented three times more before he was elected abbot: in 1383, 1395 and 1410 as lord of the monastery. From 1392 he was performed in the office of the works dean, from 1401 as a porter. He must have had neither education nor ordination. As one of two conventuals who remained in the monastery after the death of Abbot Kuno von Stoffeln , he became abbot of the monastery at the urging of the city of St. Gallen, which was only kept in existence for commercial and economic reasons. The other conventual, Georg von Enne, received the remaining monastery offices.

Act

In 1411 Heinrich received the homage in St. Gallen. The city sought on January 6, 1412 with Pope John XXIII. for the confirmation of the new abbot and immediately described in the same letter the miserable condition of the monastery. On March 28, 1412, the Pope commissioned the Bishop of Augsburg, the Official of Basel and the Cantor of St. Felix and Regula to protect the monastery in its rights and property. On December 5, 1414 he even took it under his own protection and confirmed his rights.

On October 24, 1413, Emperor Sigmund issued Heinrich a confirmation of privileges and a grant of regalia . In the same year, the abbot for his part confirmed the rights of the cities of St. Gallen, Wil and Wangen, as was prescribed.

A dispute between the monastery and Appenzell, which had begun in the reign of his predecessor, and in the Appenzell war in which the monastery was inferior, culminating came in 1412 before the Federal Diet , but negotiations remained inconclusive.

In 1417 several visitations took place in the monastery. They all realized that the monastery was in great need of reform. As a result, Abbot Heinrich was deposed and on May 9, 1418 Konrad von Pegau was appointed the new abbot in his place. The last documentary mention of Heinrich as abbot is on June 23, 1418.

Through an agreement with Abbot Heinrich von Mansdorf , Heinrich von Gundelfingen received a personal asset of 200 guilders on August 21, 1419 . After he died, Heinrich was the only conventual again to be the caretaker and governor of the monastery.

literature

• Anton Gössi: Short biographies of the abbots . In: Johannes Duft, Anton Gössi, Werner Vogler (eds.): The St. Gallen Abbey . St. Gallen 1986, ISBN 3-906616-15-0 , p. 144-145 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Kuno from Stoffeln	Abbot of St. Gallen 1411-1418	Konrad von Pegau