Hans Frisching (II.)

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Anonymous, portrait of Hans Frisching (1554).

Hans Frisching (born April 29, 1486 in Erlach , † March 22, 1559 in Bern ) was a Bernese condottiere and magistrate.

Life

Frisching was born as the son of Hans Frisching (I.) and Anna Fränkli, daughter of the master craftsman Hans Fränkli in Erlach. Frisching was the brother-in-law of the painter, poet and statesman Niklaus Manuel . He did an apprenticeship as a butcher and was the first of his gender to take room rights at the Bernese Society of Butchers . In 1518 he was sentenced to prison for manslaughter . He then acquired the civil rights of Freiburg im Üechtland and stayed there until 1530. After the reformation riots in the Oberland , he asked to be able to return to Bern. In 1529 he acquired the former Sässhaus of the Frienisberg Monastery , the lower part of the Frischinghaus . After two childless marriages and the birth of two illegitimate sons, he married Christina Zehender in 1533 , daughter of Marquard Zehender, who had 13 children. In 1535 he became a member of the Grand Council, was governor of Moudon in 1536 and joined the Small Council in 1542. In Lausanne, as bailiff from 1546, he forcibly introduced the Reformation . In 1554 he acquired the rule of Daillen .

Military career

As a Reisläufer he served in his father's company in Lombardy in 1507, in 1510 in Albrecht vom Stein's freischaar, in 1513 as a lieutenant in the battle of Novara and in French service in Picardy in 1521 . In 1530 he led a troop march to Geneva and in the Second Kappel War he served as captain of the halberdiers. In 1536 he took part in the train to Vaud .

literature

  • Barbara Braun-Bucher: The Bernese mayor Samuel Frisching (1605–1683). Literature, education, constitution and politics of the 17th century based on a biography . Bern 1991, ISBN 3-7272-0495-8 .
  • Urs Martin Zahnd : The autobiographical records of Ludwig von Diesbach: Studies on late medieval self-representation in Upper German and Swiss regions . Bern 1986, ISBN 3-7272-0494-X
  • Adolf Fluri: Hans Frisching 1486–1559 . In: New Berner Taschenbuch on the year 1930, pp. 1–61. doi : 10.5169 / seals-129982

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personal data
SURNAME Frisching, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mercenary and magistrate
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1486
PLACE OF BIRTH Erlach BE , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1559
Place of death Bern