Louise Rych

Louise Rych ; and Louise Divitis (in 1435 for the first time Freiburg mentioned, † 1487 in Basel ) was an heiress and a Dominican nun .

Life

Louise Rych was the daughter of Peter Rych (also Peter Divitis and Petermann Ritsch ) († 1430), Junker and councilor in Freiburg and his wife Margareta (also Marguerite de Duens ) (* before 1428, † after 1458), daughter of Wilhelm von Düdingen (* before 1360; † 1411).

After the death of her father, her mother married Rudolf von Ringoltingen (also Rudolf Zigerli ) (1385–1456), Schultheiss in Bern and father of Heinrich and Thuringia von Ringoltingen . He decided to marry his son Heinrich to Louise Rych. This was contradicted by the Freiburg resident Heinzmann Velga, brother of the mayor of Freiburg Wilhelm Velga († 1456), who referred to an earlier engagement.

In the meantime, the dispute had spread to the communities, so that Louise Rych decided in 1445 to enter the Dominican convent on the stones in Basel. As a result, Rudolf von Ringoltingen bought their goods from the nuns for 1,700 guilders, although their father's cousin, Freiburg councilor Rudolf von Wippingen, was too late to pay 3000 guilders for the goods. This private dispute between the families contributed significantly to the development of the Freiburg War, which arose in 1447 between Bern (allied with Savoy ) and Freiburg.

In the Peace of Murten in 1448, the goods were awarded to the mother Louise Rych. Louise Rych was the last of her sex. She died in the monastery in 1487.

Individual evidence

• Louise Rych in Edward Dorer: Application for dismissal from the government councilor Edward Dorer . Zurich 1842. p. 22.
• Louise Rych in Franz Kuenlin: Painting of Switzerland IX. The canton of Friborg . St. Gallen and Bern 1834. p. 90.
• Louise Rych in Kathrin Utz Tremp: indebted landed gentry and urban housing market in the first Freiburg notarial register (1356–1359) . P. 24.
• Louise Rych in The Stories of the Swiss Confederation . Frankenthal. P. 32 f.
• Louise Rych in Complete Works: The Stories of the Swiss Confederation, part ninth. Except for the times of the Burgundian War . Stuttgart and Tübingen 1832. P. 15 f.

Web links

• Kathrin Utz Tremp: Rych, Louise. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Louise Rych in Bernese families.