Hans von Hallwyl (officer)

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Hans von Hallwyl , actually Johannes VII. Von Hallwyl (* around 1433/1434; † March 19, 1504 ) was a Swiss officer. He led the victorious Confederates in the Battle of Murten on June 22, 1476.

Life

The von Hallwyl family lived in Hallwyl Castle in Aargau. Bern set fire to the castle in 1415 when the Aargau was conquered. Hans later came to an agreement with Bern and received castle rights and that of Solothurn . In 1475 he married Magdalena von Rothenstein . In the Burgundian Wars he was previously victorious in the Battle of Grandson on March 2, 1476. He was knighted in advance of the battle.

In the battle of Murten he commanded the Bern vanguard. She was given the task of piercing the so-called Grünhag of the Burgundians head-on, which secured their main camp. In a ravine he fought Burgundian soldiers together with the allied Duke Renatus of Lorraine and prevailed. The foot troops advanced on the palisade-reinforced Grünhag. The cavalry passed the Grünhag on the left as planned and got behind the defenders. Shelling of the Swiss by bow and crossbowmen plus artillery was unsuccessful. Reinforcement by the main force of the Burgundians, about 20 minutes' walk away, came too little and too late. In this constellation, the violence led by Hans Waldmann from Zurich was able to encircle the main enemy camp relatively quickly. About half of the Burgundian army was slaughtered by the Confederates and their allies. Charles the Bold managed a hasty escape with the rest of his men.

Hans von Hallwyl remained loyal to the war trade in the years that followed. He was with his brother Walter VII (* before 1450, † 1513) in the service of Duke Albrecht VI. from Austria in Alsace, then he worked as a war entrepreneur in Bohemia and Hungary and after the castle rights of his family representatives in 1470 with the city ​​of Bern in the service of this city. He was later in the service of King Louis XI. of France and in 1480 became the supreme captain of the federal mercenaries and councilor and chamberlain of Emperor Friedrich III. In 1486 he acquired the Lower Court of Rupperswil and the Trostburg rulership, including the associated castle and villages. He mostly lived in Aarau . In 1499 he took part in the Swabian War as a military leader .

Fragments of a coat of arms donated by Hans von Hallwyl hang in the church of Leutwil in the canton of Aargau. An attic statue of Hans von Hallwyl stands on the facade of the main building of the Berner Kantonalbank , and his bust is placed in the Walhalla in Donaustauf ( Upper Palatinate ).

genealogy

ancestors

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Rudolf II of Hallwyl (* before 1354; † 1386/91)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Rudolf III. von Hallwyl (* before 1373; † 1440)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Elisabeth Münch von Landskron (* before 1377, † after 1380)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Burkhard I. von Hallwyl (* before 1432, † 1467)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Konrad von Stoffeln (* before 1338; † 1373/80)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anna von Stoffeln († before 1420)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anna
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 John VII of Hallwyl (* 1433/34; † 1504)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Johann I. von Rüssegg (* before 1378; † 1395/1402)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Henmann II. Von Rüssegg (* before 1402; † 1455/56)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anna von Bubendorf (* before 1395, † before 1402)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Dorothea von Rüssegg (* before 1433, † after 1462)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 unknown
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Anfelisa of Aarburg († after 1466)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 unknown
 
 
 
 
 
 

progeny

  1. ⚭ 1475 Magdalena von Rothenstein († after 1494)
    1. Jakob von Hallwil

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personal data
SURNAME Hallwyl, Hans von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES John VII of Hallwyl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION officer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1433
PLACE OF BIRTH Aargau
DATE OF DEATH March 19, 1504