Matthæus Yrsselius or Irsselius, the Latinized form of Mattheus van Iersel (1541–1629), was abbot of St. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp, from 1614 until his death. He was remembered as a patron of the arts and sciences.

Patronage

In 1624 he commissioned an altarpiece depicting the Adoration of the Magi from Peter Paul Rubens, paying for it in two installments of 750 guilders each in 1624 and 1626. In 1627 the students of the

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college in Antwerp put on a school play dramatizing the life of Norbert of Xanten, dedicating the production to Yrsselius. At his death Yrsselius bequeathed a celestial and a terrestrial globe, a cosmographic sphere, and an edition of the works of

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to the abbey library."Catalogue des bienfaiteurs de la bibliothèque de l'abbaye de Saint-Michel à Anvers", ''Le Bibliophile Belge'' 1:2 (1854), 276-277.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yrsselius, Matthaeus 1541 births 1629 deaths Abbots of the Habsburg Netherlands Members of the States of Brabant Premonstratensians