Mattheus von Randow
Mattheus von Randow (* unknown; † December 25, 1512 in Brandenburg ) was cantor , senior and prior in the Premonstratensian monastery of the city of Brandenburg.
Life
Mattheus von Randow comes from a noble family that originally came from the ore monastery of Magdeburg . His date of birth and parents are unknown.
He joined the Premonstratensian Order long before 1486, where he was prior of the Brandenburg Monastery when he was first mentioned in a document in 1486. In the following years his career was very changeable. So he resigned as a simple monk in the chapter before September 21, 1489 .
Another documentary mention took place on May 22nd, 1491, when the order of preachers - the Dominicans - accepted the members of the Brandenburg cathedral chapter into its brotherhood and prayers, including Mattheus von Randow. Among these brothers, he was 14th. On June 29, 1494 Mattheus was back Prior and signed as such the foundation agreement of the Brandenburg provost Siegmund (from) Brietzke , who donated the cathedral chapter a daily mass, the so-called big provost Fair and an eternal lamp with elevations from Tremmen and Markede, and his will accepted by the cathedral chapter. Mattheus is also named as prior in a document dated December 21, 1494, with which a Jakob von Beiern (Byern) zu Kleinwusterwitz pledged various uplifts from his lands to the chapter of the cathedral in Brandenburg.
Not quite two years later - before August 24, 1496 - Mattheus stepped back into the chapter again and was a simple canonicus during the transmutation of the Brandenburg Cathedral Foundation on December 16, 1507. In the same year he became cantor and was still this in 1510 when Bishop Hieronymus confirmed a Nicolaus (von) Brösigke as dean, and in 1511, when the cathedral chapter gave the miller to Fretzdorf a lift from the mill there on November 28th.
On July 30, 1507, the bishops Hieronymus Schulz , Provost Sigismund von Britzke , Prior Peter Diericke and Senior Mattheus von Randow recognized that they were the main debtor to Elector Joachim I and his brother Albrecht, donating 1,500 Rhenish guilders , which they had borrowed to the Pope to obtain confirmation of the election of bishops.
On December 16, 1507, the bishops Johann von Ratzeburg and Dietrich von Lebus confirmed that they had carried out the papal mandate and transmuted the cathedral monastery. Mattheus von Randow is mentioned again.
On March 17, 1510, the cantor Mattheus von Randow was commissioned to introduce the newly elected dean Nikolaus Brösicke into his real and physical possessions.
On November 23, 1511, the cantor Mattheus von Randow was mentioned for the last time in a contract in which the cathedral provost and cathedral chapter transferred a wispel of rye to the miller Georg Tile in Fredersdorf . He is in third place there.
Mattheus von Randow died at Christmas 1512 (December 25th) and was buried for rest in the Brandenburg Cathedral . His tombstone from 1512 can still be seen on the wall in the eastern cloister . The partially damaged or abbreviated Latin inscription reads: A [nno] d [omin] i millesi [m] o qui [n] gentesimo duodecimo ip [s] o the anastasia virginis obiit venerabilis d [omi] n [u] s mattheus randow primus cantor cuius a [n] i [m] a req [ie] scat i [n] pace am [e] n (“In the year of the Lord 1512 on the day of the Virgin Anastasia, the venerable Mr. Mattheus Randow, first cantor, died Soul rest in peace ”).
literature
- Olof v. Randow: The Randows. A family story. Degener, Neustadt / Aisch 2001, ISBN 3-7686-5182-7 , ( German family archive 135/136).
Web links
- Website of the family v. Randow
- Coat of arms of the Randow family in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book
- Entry about Randow in New General German Adels Lexicon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Randow, Mattheus von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Monk and prior |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 25, 1512 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg on the Havel |