Michel (patrician family)

Michel coat of arms, in the diary of Franz Ludwig Michel (1702).

The Michel family of sword Schwendi was originally from Burgdorf Dating Bernese patrician family that since 1446 the burgers right of Bern possessed of society means lion and the guild society to forging belonged and 1742 extinct.

Mentioned for the first time in 1422, they employed three mayors in Burgdorf in the 15th and 16th centuries. A Berchtold acquired the Bern citizenship rights in 1446 and joined the Grand Council in 1455. The family provided several Bernese bailiffs and two councilors, Wolfgang and Beat Ludwig (1580–1630). The latter, Herr zu Kehrsatz and builder of the castle there, became Venner zu Schmieden.

people

• Franz Ludwig Michel , officer and explorer (trips to Pennsylvania)

literature

• Hans Braun: Michel von Schwertschwendi. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Johann Heinrich Graf: Franz Michel von Bern and his first trips to America 1701–1704: a contribution to the prehistory of the foundation of New-Berne. In: Berner Taschenbuch 1898. Wyss, Bern 1897, pp. 59–144. on-line
• Andreas Mielke:  Michel, Frantz Ludwig. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 34, Bautz, Nordhausen 2013, ISBN 978-3-88309-766-4 .

Web links

Commons : Michel family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Michel coat of arms on www.chgh.ch