Hans Feer

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Hans Feer (* 11. January 1418 in Eschenbach ; † 9. September 1484 in Lucerne ) was a Lucerne Schultheiss , Kleinrat , land and church Vogt and Diet Messenger .

Life

Hans Feer was the son of Lüti (Lütpold, Lüpold) IV Feer (1389-1453) and Irmelin (Irmi) von Mettenwyl. His great-great-grandfather, Lüti I. Feer (died around 1338), is considered the progenitor of the Lucerne patrician Feer family .

Hans Feer married Margarethe Bili in 1442, a daughter of the wholesaler and small councilor Johans Bili and Barbara Walker. The latter was a daughter of the mayor Ulrich Walker . Hans and Margarethe Feer-Bili had 10 children, including Leopold VI Feer (1445–1502, progenitor of the line to Buttisholz; his son was Jakob Feer ) and Petermann Feer (1454–1519, progenitor of the lines to Castelen and Wyher).

Services

Hans Feer was a major councilor from 1449 and a minor councilor from 1453. In 1445/56 he was bailiff to Merenschwand , 1457/58 to Weggis , in 1457 council judge, city calculator and messenger to the federal annual accounts in Baden . He was fifth in the men's guild for the monkey wagon. In 1459/60 he was bailiff of Habsburg , then a member of the city court. Between 1461 and 1478 he was governor of Willisau four times. From 1464 onwards he was delegate to the Diet more than 80 times . In 1465/66 he was bailiff of Meyenberg, 1467/78 of Ruswil and Wolhusen . In 1471/72 he served as council judge, 1475/76 as federal governor of Baden, 1476/77 as captain-governor and councilor in the Burgundian Wars , from 1478 as mayor of Lucerne.

During his tenure as mayor, the trial against Peter Amstalden (Amstaldenhandel), the umbrella contract with the Abbot of St. Gallen (1479) and the dispute over the alliance with Solothurn and Freiburg took place. For decades he was one of the leaders of the Milanese party in Lucerne.

In 1481 he met Brother Klaus to mediate because of the tensions between the urban and rural cantons. In the same year he was elected permanent mayor governor and chairman of the city court and took part in the historic statutes of Stans, in which Brother Klaus saved the peace among the confederates.

He was considered one of the richest Lucerne residents of his time. Among other things, he acquired the Wyher moated castle in 1480 .

literature

  • Theodor von Liebenau: The mayors of Lucerne . In: The history friend. Announcements from the Historical Association of the Five Places Lucerne, Uri, Schwyz, Unterwalden whether and not the forest and Zug . Volume 35; 1880, pp. 53-182. doi : 10.5169 / seals-113460
  • Eduard Feer : The Feer family in Lucerne and in Aargau , Verlag Sauerländer , Aarau; Volume 2, 1964; Pp. 107-117
  • Josef Kurmann: The political leadership in Lucerne 1450-1500 , Raeber Verlag, Lucerne; 1976, ISBN 3-7239-0041-0
  • Viridarium nobilitatis Lucernensis arboribus genethliacis exornatum family tables of Lucerne patrician families, 1400-1900 , Lucerne State Archives, 1765
  • Kurt Messmer, Peter Hoppe: Lucerne patriciate. Social u. economic history studies on the origin and development in the 16th and 17th centuries . Rex-Verlag, Lucerne 1976, ISBN 3-7252-0283-4 ( Lucerne historical publications 5).

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personal data
SURNAME Feer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mayor, small councilor, bailiff and delegate of the Diet
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1418
PLACE OF BIRTH Eschenbach LU
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1484
Place of death Lucerne