Matthäus an der Gassen

Matthäus an der Gassen (c. 1300–1363) was Prince-Bishop of Brixen from 1336 until his death. Born near Meran into a Tyrolean ministerialis family, he was a Brixen canon when the future Emperor Charles IV arranged his election in November 1336.

In the Luxemburg–Wittelsbach war over Tyrol he trod cautiously, accepting a 1353 treaty that made Brixen part of the County of Tyrol. When Tyrol passed to Rudolf IV in 1363, he went over to the Habsburgs, dying at Brixen on 27 October 1363.