Matthias Glabus

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Founding document for the new monastery under Abbot Matthias Glabus in 1640 with his coat of arms and the pontificals
Title page of the "History of the Monastery of Himmerod", 1641
Detail of the glabus cross in Lieser, dated 1641

Matthias Glabus (* around 1590 in Lieser ; † February 15, 1648 in Siebenborn Monastery ) was abbot in the Cistercian monastery of Himmerod from 1631 to 1647 during the Thirty Years' War . The foundation stone for the new monastery was laid during his term of office. Under his aegis, the first printed history of the monastery of Himmerod appeared in 1641. For the young monks he wrote a Forma Conversationis , a guide to the spiritual life.

Live and act

The date of birth and the names of the parents have not been recorded. In 1613, Glabus received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Trier . On August 13 of the same year he entered the Cistercian monastery of Himmerod, where he made his profession on August 15, 1614 . The date of his ordination is unknown. In 1628 he became subprior and confessor of the Cistercian sisters of Löwenbrücken near Trier. After he was elected abbot in the monastery of Himmerod on June 12, 1631, he was officially consecrated in June by the auxiliary bishop Georg von Helffenstein and the Trier abbots of St. Matthias and St. Marien and introduced into the office.

After the Trier clerical Elector Philipp Christoph von Sötern sided with Richelieu in the Thirty Years' War in 1632 , the Electorate of Trier and Himmerod Monastery were drawn into the war. In 1632 Glabus and the monks had to flee three times alone from the Dutch and Swedish soldiers to Sankt Thomas (Eifel) and to the moated castles of Oberkail and Seinsfeld . In addition, there was the outbreak of the plague, whereupon the convent briefly dispersed.

Even after the capture of the Archbishop of Trier Sötern in 1635, the monastery was not spared from requisitions and looting. In the years 1635–1636 the monastery housed the abbots of Eberbach and Arnsburg monasteries , as well as part of their convents.

Despite the chaos of the war, Glabus was able to lay the foundation stone for the new monastery on August 2, 1640. However, this was not completed until 1688 under the abbot Robert Bootz . In 1645 Glabus carried out a visit to the properties under the monastery and wrote a report about it.

After a stroke, Glabus transferred jurisdiction to the prior on February 9, 1647 and resigned as abbot on September 14, 1647. He then retired to Siebenborn Abbey, where he died on February 15, 1648. His body was transferred to Himmerod Monastery and buried in the chapter house .

The Glabus Cross and the Zehnthaus in Lieser, as well as an entombment group donated by him for the monastery church of Himmerod, which is located in Spangdahlem today, remind of Abbot Glabus .

literature

  • Franz Schmitt, Chronik Weindorf Lieser , Paulinus Druckerei Trier 1988, pp. 585-591, and p. 818f with reference to
    • P. Dr. Edmund Müller, SO Cist., Himmeroder Portraits, Abbot Matthias Glabus von Lieser 1631−1647 , in: Unser Liebe Frau von Himmerod, issue 1, May 1961, p. 19ff
    • P. Dr. Edmund Müller, SO Cist., Himmeroder Portraits, Abbot Matthias Glabus von Lieser , in: Unser Liebe Frau von Himmerod, issue 1, May 1965, p. 24ff.
  • Abbot Dr. Ambrosius Schneider, SO Cist., The Cistercian Abbey of Himmerod from the Renaissance to its Dissolution 1511-1802 , Cologne 1976

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ambrosius Schneider: Die Cistercienserabtei Himmerod from the Renaissance to the dissolution 1511-1802 , Cologne 1976, p. 11.
  2. ↑ Cf. Gregor Brand:  Bootz, Robert. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 235-237.  ( Article / beginning of article in the Internet archive ) (with reference to Glabus, who is referred to there as Matthias IV. Glabus)
  3. ↑ Ambrosius Schneider: The Cistercian Abbey of Himmerod from the Renaissance to the Dissolution 1511-1802 , Cologne 1976, p. 12.

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personal data
SURNAME Glabus, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Cistercian abbot
DATE OF BIRTH around 1590
PLACE OF BIRTH Lieser (municipality)
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1648
Place of death Siebenborn Abbey , Rhineland-Palatinate