Nicholas IV Peisser

Nikolaus IV. Peisser (* in Eger ; † 1479 in Königswart , Kingdom of Bohemia ) was the 28th abbot of the princes of the Cistercian Abbey of Waldsassen from 1461 to 1479.

Nikolaus Peisser came from Eger and was a son of Walther Peysser (Beisser, Beysser), a citizen of the city of Eger, who was first established to be resident in Eger in 1419 (city tax book, so-called password book, city archive). "Walther Peysser's houses in front of the Oberthor" are mentioned in a parchment letter dated December 7, 1424 (the original is in the holdings of the former Dominican monastery in Eger, city archive). His wife, the mother of Nicholas, is unknown. He is the uncle of Wendelin Peisser, who from 1433 to 1461 as Johann (es) VI. 27. Abbot of the Cistercian Abbey Waldsassen in the Upper Palatinate was. (Vinzenz Prockl: Eger und das Egerland, 2 volumes, Falkenau an der Eger, 1877, page 390) and has the brothers Erhard Beysser, who died in Eger in 1489, citizens and from 1484 to 1489 member of the Outer Council of the city of Eger. In the town's election booklet, the family name is the first time Peisser called Brusch; and Hans (Alt) -Hans Beisser called Brusch, died 1506 in Eger, 1469 to 1506 member of the Outer Council of the city and shoemaker, the great-grandfather of the humanist, imperial court palatine and crowned poet Kaspar Brusch .

Nikolaus Peysser is a grandson of Ulrich Peisser, a citizen of Ingolstadt in Bavaria in 1376 . About 70 letters from Abbot Nicholas IV have been preserved in the town archive of Eger (Fascicle 738). He was often an envoy to foreign courts and is considered an abbot who contributed to the territorial rounding of the monastery property and the formation of the land of the monasteries . Heinrich Vogt von Plauen called him to a wedding ceremony in Königswart in western Bohemia, where he died.

Abbot Nikolaus IV: carried the bust of a prince abbot with a miter as headgear and a scepter in his right hand as a seal. The arched picture above the miter shows references to the coat of arms of the Peisser in Ingolstadt.

• Coat of arms I: A black rafter covered with three yellow linden leaves in red. Crest: a sitting white lion (according to another description a white dog) between two buffalo horns with black diagonal bars, inside a yellow linden leaf. The helmet corners are red and black.
• Coat of arms II: a white rafter covered with three green linden leaves in yellow (The coats of arms of the Bavarian nobility, 1971 reprint Neustadt an der Aisch, part I, page 115 and plate 116; supplement to the collective sheet of the historical association Ingolstadt, 56/1817, page 19 , 20 and 21).

literature

• Rudolf Langhammer : Waldsassen - monastery and town . Waldsassen 1936, p. 212.
• Johann Baptist Brenner: History of the Waldsassen Monastery and Abbey, Nuremberg 1837, page 107.
• Franz Binhack: The Abbots of the Cistercians Abei and the Waldsassen Monastery, Eichstädt 1887, page 43.
• Vinzenz Prockl: Eger and the Egerland, 2 volumes, Falkenau an der Eger, 1877, pages 390 and 391.
• German gender book Brusch, Bruscha, Bruschius, Brusch von Neiberg, Brusch Edle von Bruschen from Eger in Böhmen formerly Peisser from Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Volume 207, 1998, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn, ISBN 3 7980 0207 X , page 12 and 13.

predecessor	Office	successor
John VI Helix	Abbot of Waldsassen 1461–1479	Udalrich II. Birker