Anton Spilmann

Grave slab with the coats of arms Anton Spilmann (III.) And Dorothea Ross (around 1525), Bern Minster .

Anton Spilmann (III.) (* Around 1470 ; † around 1548 in Bern ) was a Bernese statesman.

Anton Spilmann was born to Gilian Spilmann and Anna Simon. He inherited the rule of Kehrsatz from his father . Around 1490 he married Dorothea Ross, daughter of Peter Ross and Verena Schopfer. From 1490 he is recorded as a member of the Bernese Grand Council, from 1494 as a member of the Small Council . In 1495 he was mayor of Burgdorf and in 1505 mayor of Murten , in 1506 bailiff of Nidau and in 1508 Venner . In 1506 he went on a pilgrimage and educational trip to Santiago de Compostela together with Wolfgang May . In the Koniz uprising of 1513 he was charged with bribery. As a Bernese negotiator, Spilmann was suspected of having accepted French pension funds during the Milan Wars.

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• Marriage contract for Dorothea Ross and Anthoni Spilmann (1490), State Archives of the Canton of Bern , documents, Bern Oberamt, March 23, 1490 .
• List of assets and assets on the estate of Anton III. Spilmann and his wife Dorothea Ross , Bern Burgerbibliothek , FA von Fellenberg 120 .

literature

• François de Capitani: Nobility, citizens and guilds in Bern in the 15th century. Bern 1982, pp. 47-48.
• Roland Gerber: God is Burger in Bern. A late medieval urban society between rule building and social balance , Weimar 2001.
• Annelies Hüssy: Spilmann, Anton. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Luc Mojon: The Bern Minster. The art monuments of the city of Bern , Vol. IV., Basel 1960.
• Heinrich Türler: The altars and chapels of the minster in Bern before the Reformation . In: New Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1896 , pp. 103–124. Digitized
• Paul Wäber: The Spilmann family in Bern and their fate . In: New Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1928 , pp. 81–126. Digitized
• Urs Martin Zahnd : The educational situation in the Bernese councilors in the late Middle Ages. Distribution, character and function of education in the political leadership of a late medieval city , Bern 1979, p. 131.