Johann von Metzenhausen (1492–1540) was the

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from 1531 to 1540.

Biography

Johann von Metzenhausen was born in Neef in 1492, the son of Heinrich von Metzenhausen and his wife Margarete Boos von Waldeck. He became a domiciliar of the

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of the

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in 1505, and became a

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in 1511. The cathedral chapter elected him

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in 1512;

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in 1517; and provost in 1521. In the wake of the death of

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, the cathedral chapter met on 27 March 1531 and elected Metzenhausen as the new

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movement, though he was generally conciliatory. He instituted reforms at the

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and worked to improve the training of the clergy in the Archbishopric of Trier. With the outbreak of the Münster Rebellion in 1534, Metzenhausen helped raise troops to defeat the

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uprising. He attended the Colloquy of Haguenau in 1540, serving as one of the presidents of the colloquy. Metzenhausen died suddenly on 22 July 1540 while visiting Thanstein Castle, near

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References

Sources

Peter G. Bietenholz and Thomas Brian Deutscherp, ''Contemporaries of Erasmus'' (University of Toronto Press, 1985), Vol. 2, p. 439
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