Kilian Germann

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Coat of arms fresco by Prince Abbot Kilian Germann in the Marienberg monastery near Rorschach with the coats of arms of St. Gallen, Toggenburg and Germann

Kilian Germann (* late 1485 ; † 30 August 1530 in the Bregenzer Ach ) was the prince abbot of St. Gallen from 1529 to 1530 .

Life

Germann was the son of Johannes Germann, Obervogt zu Lütisburg , and brother of the mercenary leader and later Landvogts Hans Germann (called "the Batzenhammer") and Gallus Germann (also Obervogt zu Lütisburg). Kilian Germann was the large cellar in St. Gallen in 1516 , governor in Rorschach in 1523 and governor in Wil in 1528. In 1529 he was elected Prince Abbot of St. Gallen in Rapperswil as the successor of Franz von Gaisberg. After pronounced confirmation by Pope Clement VII . he also became Emperor Charles V . proposed as Prince Abbot of St. Gallen and confirmed by him in February 1530.

Wolfurt Castle, near Wolfurt

Prince Abbot Kilian fled to Meersburg in 1529 after the First Kappel War broke out . From February 1530 he lived at Wolfurt Castle near Bregenz. In exile on Lake Constance, he cultivated society with the southern German nobility in order to exert political pressure on the Reformed movement in the prince's lands, which the reformer Vadian did not miss. In 1530 he represented the prince abbey at the Diet in Baden. In July 1530, Prince Abbot Kilian Germann visited the Augsburg Diet . In the same year he drowned falling from his horse in the Bregenz Ach after a visit to the Count of Montfort . He was buried in the Mehrerau monastery near Bregenz . His successor as Prince Abbot of St. Gallen was Diethelm Blarer von Wartensee.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Wegelin: History of the Toggenburg landscape . tape 2 . Huber, 1833, p. 332 .
  2. ↑ a b Chronicle or Memories of the City u. Landscape St. Gallen . St. Gallen 1867.
  3. ^ Ildefons von Arx: Stories of the Canton of St. Gallen . tape 2 . Zollikofer and Züblin, 1811.
  4. ^ Theodor Müller: The St. Gallic Faith Movement at the time of the Prince Abbots Franz and Kilian (1520-1530) . Buchdruckerei Zollikofer & Cie., St. Gallen 1910.
  5. ^ Egbert Friedrich von Mülinen: Helvetia Sacra . tape 1 , 1858.
  6. ^ Franz Germann: 500 years of history of Germann in Toggenburg . Ed .: Germann family foundation in Toggenburg. 1983.
predecessor Office successor
Franz von Gaisberg Abbot of St. Gallen
1529–1530 		Diethelm Blarer from Wartensee
personal data
SURNAME Germann, Kilian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince Abbot of St. Gallen
DATE OF BIRTH 1485
DATE OF DEATH August 30, 1530
Place of death Bregenz Oh