... sub quo ut a tristibus ad meliora transeamus fata. Georgius Vassmutius, the abbot of Plasy, a man who fought as soldier and re-established the monastery

Abstract

Georgius Vassmutius (abbot in Plasy 1616-1639) is an extremely interesting figure in the history of this monastery. Three days after the defenestration in Prague, he helped to count Martinitz escaping to Bavaria, during the summer 1618 he commanded the cannonade against Mansfeld troops in besieged Catholic Pilsen.

After 1620, he put in order the economic base of the monastery and consolidated the convent. The author searches after traces of abbot’s activities in the own monastery historiography, especially in Tilia Plassensis of Mauritius Vogt.

He follows the emerging myth of the abbot as soldier and a man who re-established the monastery, a myth reaching its top in a poetical necrology of Vassmutius by Vogt.