Konrad V. Geyer

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Konrad V. Geyer († January 22, 1431 ) was abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Münsterschwarzach from 1429 to 1431 .

Life

Nothing is known about the abbot's childhood and youth, but the abbot came from the noble family of Geyer , who had their ancestral home in Giebelstadt in Lower Franconia. After completing his school education, the young Konrad will probably have started studying in the nearby city of Würzburg . He then took his vows in the Würzburg city monastery St. Burkard and became provost at the Marienberg fortress.

Konrad Geyer appeared again in 1415, he was mentioned as a monk of the Burkard convent. Afterwards Geyer documented again on August 1, 1428 as "Probst uff Unser Frawenberg ". During the lifetime of Abbot Kaspar von Schaumberg, Geyer tried to replace the unloved prelate . It was not until the late 1920s that it was successful. On December 15, 1429 Konrad V. Geyer was as the new abbot of Münsterschwarzach by Pope Martin V. confirmed.

However, the new abbot had been appointed by Würzburg Bishop Johann II von Brunn and was therefore not recognized by the Münsterschwarzach convent. Unlike his predecessor, however, the monks did not depose the abbot because he fell ill with leprosy shortly after he took office. This is also where Konrad V. Geyer died. The date of death in the Münsterschwarzacher necrology is January 22nd. The year of death was probably 1431.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms after Siebmacher

Abbot Konrad V. Geyer does not have a personal coat of arms. However, since he was part of the Geyer family, the family coat of arms has been preserved. Description of the family coat of arms: In blue, a silver ram's or ram's body with golden horns; on the helmet with blue-silver covers a growing, silver goat hull with golden horns.

literature

  • Kassius Hallinger: Chronology of the abbots of Münsterschwarzach a. M. (1390-1803) . In: Abtei Münsterschwarzach (Ed.): Abtei Münsterschwarzach. Works from their history . Münsterschwarzach 1938.
  • Johannes Mahr: Münsterschwarzach. 1200 years of a Franconian abbey . Münsterschwarzach 2002.
  • Leo Trunk: The Abbots of Münsterschwarzach. A comparative overview . In: Pirmin Hugger (Ed.): Magna Gratia. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Münsterschwarzach abbey church 1938–1988 . Münsterschwarzach 1992.
  • Heinrich Wagner: The abbots of Megingaudshausen and Münsterschwarzach in the Middle Ages . In: Pirmin Hugger (Ed.): Magna Gratia. Festschrift for the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Münsterschwarzach abbey church 1938–1988 . Münsterschwarzach 1992.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Corresponding to the death of his predecessor Abbot Kaspar von Schaumberg. Cf. Leo Trunk: The Abbots of Münsterschwarzach . P. 156 f.
  2. ↑ Alfred Wendehoerst (Editor): The Benedictine Abbey and the nobles Säkularkanonikerstift St. Burkard in Würzburg. (= Germania Sacra, New Series, Volume 40, The Diocese of Würzburg, Volume 6). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2001, ISBN 3-11-017075-2 , p. 205, digitized
  3. ↑ Kassius Hallinger: The chronology of the abbots of Münsterschwarzach . P. 89.
  4. ^ Heinrich Wagner: The abbots of Münsterschwarzach in the Middle Ages . P. 145.
predecessor Office successor
Kaspar von Schaumberg Abbot of Münsterschwarzach
1429–1431 		Nicholas I of Gleißenberg
personal data
SURNAME Geyer, Konrad V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Geyer, Cunrat; Geyer, Severus V .; Geyer, Severinus; Seyer, Cunrat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine abbot
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1431