Heinrich Matter

Heinrich Matter coat of arms (1612)

Heinrich Matter (* 1428 ; † 1508 ) was mayor of Bern .

Son of Heinzmann and Margarete von Bern. He sat on the Grand Council from 1469, became mayor of Thun in 1475, sat on the Small Council from 1477 to 1495 and from 1498 to 1506. In 1478 he was bailiff in Orbe-Echallens and from 1495 to 1498 mayor of Bern. He was married to Louise Velga and in 1508 his second marriage to Margaretha von Altdorf. In 1475 he was Commander-in-Chief in Yverdon. As the first bailiff of Grandson, Matter fought in 1476 in the battle of Murten. Between 1477 and 1483 he was ambassador to the French court and in 1489 to the Reichstag in Frankfurt. 1496 he took part in Maximilians journey to Rome and received on the bridge in Tortona at Pavia the knighthood .

swell

• Knight Heinrich Matter, Altschultheiss von Bern, waived all further claims to the legacy of Knight Wilhelm Velgas, his brother-in-law (1505), State Archives Bern, after paying 1200 florins, which the councils of Bern and Friborg had awarded him . FA von Erlach I 403
• Heinrich Matter, of the council of Bern, leaves a piece of arable land (2 Jucharten) on the "Scherler" and a mat on the "Zwiegarten" in Steffisburg to the Interlaken Monastery as a free property and exchanges two Mättelein for alder and a piece of field (2 Jucharten) on the "Zulgfeld" (1488), Bern State Archives, Interlaken documents, May 1, 1488

literature

• François de Capitani: Nobility, citizens and guilds in Bern in the 15th century. Bern 1982.
• Annelies Hüssy: Heinrich Matter. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• 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. 119.
• Alfred Zesiger: The room at the red / guldinen Mittlen-Löwen. A look back at the history of the first five centuries. On the inauguration of the new guild room in the Falken on March 10, 1908 , Bern 1908, pp. 156–157.

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilhelm von Diesbach	Schultheiss of Bern 1495 to 1498	Hans Rudolf von Scharnachthal