Johann von Metten

Johann von Metten is an 7th century Alamannic Celt from the shores of the Bodensee, raised in the Frankish court of Pepin.

.Johann von Metten is a 7th century Benedictine monk from St.Micheal's Abbey on the Danube, half way between the Imperial cities of Regensburg and Passau. Born in 720, He entered the monastery in the year 764 after being widowed when his Anglo Saxon wife Erentrude died, leaving him with a passel of daughters and two sons. He is thus the patriarch of many generations of strong minded women and very astute gentlemen.

After making arrangements with his wife's relations and the Imperial Court of Pepin and then Charlemagne, he made for the cloister. After proving himself worthy he was assigned as Imperial Legate from Aachen to Rome and then to Constantinople in the court of Irene. He was an observer at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.

In AS 35 he was elevated to the Laurelate by the hand of Edmund and Kateryn III for his research into medieval Animal Husbandry in the area of poultry science. He has since taken in several apprentices, all specializing in various areas of Animal Husbandry, ranging from poultry to rabbits to sheep and goats and horses.