Heinrich Zili

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Heinrich Zili (also Heinrich Zyli ) (* 1434 in St. Gallen ; † after 1500 there) was a mayor of St. Gallen ( Switzerland ).

Life

Heinrich Zili was born as the son of the cloth merchant of the same name Heinrich Zili. His siblings were:

  • Jacob Zili (* 1436 in St. Gallen; † unknown);
  • Verena Zili;
  • Magdalena Zili, married to Hugo von Watt;
  • Franziscus Zili (* 1439 in St. Gallen; † October 28, 1520 ibid), canvas merchant and married to Barbara Endgasser (* 1441 in St. Gallen; † 1509 ibid), daughter of Konrad Endgasser (1415–1496), his son Jakob Zili later became a wealthy canvas dealer and politician in St. Gallen;
  • Hans Zili.

As a cloth merchant he belonged to the tailors' guild and became a 911 and later a guild master in 1473. In 1475 he became Vogt of Steinach , and from 1478 to 1481 he was Vogt of Sax-Forstegg .

In 1467 he was a fish shower (supervisory body and quality control) and was elected to the small council . In 1485 and 1488 he was the mayor of St. Gallen.

As an influential promoter of Ulrich Varnbüler's politics , he led St. Gallen on July 28, 1489 at the Rorschacher Klosterbruch and defended the city in the St. Gallen War of 1490 as field captain . Because of his sympathy for the Swabian Federation and his anti-federal stance, he lost his influential position, but remained a member of the Small Council.

Heinrich Zili was married several times, only the name of his second wife, Barbara Grübel, is known. His daughter was Katharina Zili.

He also had an illegitimate son:

  • Dominik Zili (* before 1500; † August 17, 1542), became a schoolmaster in St. Gallen in 1521; led John Kessler Lesinen further that this had been banned, preached the first evangelical layman in the Church St. Laurenzen and was until his death pastor there. On March 7, 1529 he gave the first Reformed sermon in the cathedral (in the monastery church) in front of an audience of 3,000-4,000.

literature

  • August Naef : Chronicle or Memories of the City and Landscape of St. Gallen. With the epitome of the related Appenzell events. From the oldest to the more recent. Friedrich Schulthess, Zurich, Scheitlin, St. Gallen 1867, p. 64 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claudia Sutter: The women of the upper class in the monastery. (PDF; 750 kB) In: In the Green Ring. No. 3. St. Gallen City Archives, 2016, p. 6 f. , accessed December 25, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Guild Constitution of the City of St. Gallen. Retrieved December 25, 2018 .
  3. ^ Alfred Ehrensperger: The service in the city of St. Gallen, in the monastery and in the prince-abbot areas before, during and after the Reformation . Theological Verlag, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-290-17628-0 , p. 233 ( limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 25, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Johannes Kessler's «Lesinen». 500 years of the Reformation. In: St. Gallen. 500 years of the Reformation. Retrieved December 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Zili, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zyli, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Mayor
DATE OF BIRTH 1434
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century
Place of death St. Gallen