Nicholas I of Gleißenberg

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Nikolaus I von Gleißenberg († March 22nd after 1444 ) was abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Münsterschwarzach from 1431 to 1444 .

Life

Very little is known about the origin of Abbot Nicholas. He probably came from a family of the lower nobility who had their headquarters in Gleißenberg , today a district of Burghaslach . The education of Nicholas is not mentioned in the sources either. He only became tangible when he was already abbot of Münsterschwarzach. After the death of Konrad Geyer, he took over the monastery in 1431 and was first mentioned here on July 2, 1432.

As early as 1432 the abbot received the right from the eighth provincial chapter of the Benedictines in Augsburg to visit the Franconian abbeys together with the Neustadt abbot. Within the monastery itself, Nicholas was not so successful. He transferred many rights to the abbey and thereby accumulated a mountain of debt of 12,000 guilders . While the monastery was in dire straits, the abbot himself lived on “big feet” (Latin voluptuose vixit) and thus stimulated the convent even more.

Abbot Nicholas was last recorded in the monastery on October 22, 1443. The monks then tried to get his removal, which they succeeded in 1444. Bishop Gottfried IV Schenk von Limpurg relieved him of his office, and the deposed prelate was even excommunicated. The monastic sources are naturally silent about life after the deposition. Only the date of death of the excluded is known: Nikolaus von Gleißenberg died on March 2nd.

coat of arms

A personal coat of arms has not been passed down for Nikolaus von Gleißenberg, but he probably came from a family of servants from a village that can be found in the area around the town of Scheinfeld . Description of the family crest: A ram's horn. The coat of arms is not colored, but the letter g was placed on the field.

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.
  • Rainer Kengel: The coat of arms of the abbots of Münsterschwarzach . 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. ↑ While Heinrich Wagner (p. 146) and Kassius Hallinger (p. 89) mention this year, some other representations are based on the year 1448. Compare: Trunk, Leo: The Abbots of Münsterschwarzach . P. 156 f.
  2. ^ Heinrich Wagner: The abbots of Münsterschwarzach in the Middle Ages . P. 146.
  3. ↑ Kassius Hallinger: The chronology of the abbots of Münsterschwarzach . P. 90.
  4. ^ Heinrich Wagner: The abbots of Münsterschwarzach in the Middle Ages . P. 146.
  5. ↑ Rainer Kengel: The coat of arms of the abbots of Münsterschwarzach . P. 136.
predecessor Office successor
Konrad V. Geyer Abbot of Münsterschwarzach
1431–1444 		John II Wolf von Karsbach
personal data
SURNAME Gleißenberg, Nikolaus I. von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gleissenberg, Nikolaus I. von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Benedictine abbot
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century or 15th century
DATE OF DEATH March 22 after 1444