Thomas Schöni

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Book of hours Thomas Schöni and Jeanne d'Arbignon (around 1490)

Thomas Schöni († after 1501 ) was a Bernese magistrate and mercenary .

Life

Thomas Schöni, son of Johannes Schöni († 1504), bailiff of Nidau ​​and Aarwangen, enrolled at the University of Basel in 1472 and became a Baccalaureus artium two years later. In 1480 he became a member of the great council and was elected governor of Aigle in 1481, which suggests a thorough knowledge of French. On May 13, 1484, the Bernese council imposed a prison sentence on Schöni for stealing cow, embezzlement and indecent being with frowen . The sources also indicate that Schöni abused his wife Agatha von Bubenberg so much that she died of the consequences. From 1487 to 1490 he was Landvogt zu Lenzburg and from 1496 a member of the Small Council, from 1496 to 1498 he was also Ohmgeldner from the council. After 1491 he acquired the rule of Hünigen . According to the parlor toboggan from 1496/97, Thomas Schöni was a member of the parlor in Oberpfistern . The French royal family turned to him on March 14, 1500 with a request to mediate 8,000 mercenaries. He entered French service as a captain. Thereupon he lost all political offices due to unauthorized traveling , his entire property was confiscated, and in 1501 Hünigen went to Hans Rudolf von Scharnachthal.

Thomas Schöni owned a copy of Diebold Schilling's Bern Chronicle through his wife Agatha von Bubenberg, an illegitimate daughter of Adrian I von Bubenberg . Around 1490, Schöni had a book of hours ascribed to the researcher named "Master of the Breviary of Jost von Silenen" created, which attests to his marriage to Jeanne d'Arbignon from Collombey . Today the prayer book is kept in the Benedictine convent Hermetschwil (archive, cod. Membr. 35); For digitized material see below: Web links.

literature

  • Hans Braun: Schöni, Thomas. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Charlotte Bretscher-Gisiger, Rudolf Gamper: Catalog of the medieval manuscripts of the monasteries Muri and Hermetschwil ; Urs Graf-Verlag, Dietikon-Zurich 2005, especially pp. 202–204; ISBN 3-85951-244-7 .
  • François de Capitani: Nobility, citizens and guilds in Bern in the 15th century. Stämpfli, Bern 1982, p. 118.
  • Albert Jörger: T he miniaturist of the Breviary of Jost von Silenen: an anonymous illuminator around 1500 and his works in Freiburg, Bern, Sitten, Ivrea and Aosta ; ed. Valais State Archives, Sitten 2001; ( Supplements to Vallesia , 6); 659 pp., Ill .; ISBN 2-940145-45-8 .
  • 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, pp. 131-132.
  • Alfred Ziegler: Adrian von Bubenberg and his intervention in the most important conditions of the time , Bern 1887. online

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Haller, Council manuals 2, S. 205th
  2. ^ Zahnd 1979, p. 131.
  3. ↑ Zahnd 1979, p. 132.
  4. ↑ Haller, Council manuals 3, S. 329th
  5. ↑ Ziegler 1887, p. 120, note 5a.
  6. ↑ de Capitani 1982, p. 118.
  7. ↑ Zahnd 1979, p. 132.
  8. ↑ Zahnd 1979, p. 132.
  9. ^ Albert Jörger: The miniaturist of the breviary of Jost von Silenen: an anonymous illuminator around 1500 and his works in Freiburg, Bern, Sitten, Ivrea and Aosta ; ed. Valais State Archives, Sitten 2001; ( Supplements to Vallesia , 6); ISBN 2-940145-45-8 ; esp. description pp. 438–459 and illustrations pp. 460–470.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Schöni, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bernese magistrate and mercenary
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH after 1501