Wilhelm von Wylre (politician, 1539)

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William of Wylre (* 1539 in Aachen , † 5. August 1601 ibid ) was a German alderman and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen .

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Wilhelm von Wylre was the son of lay judge Diederich von Wylre (1498–1564) and grandson of Wilhelm von Wylre and nephew of Wolter von Wylre . He was elected aldermen during his father's lifetime, but only accepted into the aldermen's chair after his father's death. Von Wylre was also accepted into the star guild, the union of lay judges, and later elected to their Greven . In the years 1580 and 1581 he was a member of the “Great Council” of the city of Aachen, which was responsible for general affairs, judging life and death and electing the new council members.

It was the time when the Aachen religious unrest had reached its peak. The year 1581 was marked by a double election, in the course of which the Catholic Albrecht Schrick , who was actually elected mayor , and many other Catholic council members, were deposed and expelled from the city or, like Wilhelm von Wylre, the city in protest in the direction of Jülich left. Together with Schrick, von Wylre returned to Aachen in 1584 under the protection of imperial troops, where he again took part in the meetings of the council, which was now temporarily denominationally balanced. In 1587 he joined the Sacrament Society of St. Foillan and in 1590 was elected lay alder at the Sendgericht . In the same year, he and his fellow aldermen from the sending court complained to the papal nuncio in Cologne about the disadvantages of the Catholic population in Aachen by the renewed Protestant majority in the council, which resulted in all Catholic senders being banned from Aachen again.

The year 1597 was again a year with a double election, in which three evangelical councilors from the evangelical part, as well as Wilhelm von Wylre and Egidius Valenzyn, two Catholic candidates from the Catholic part of the population who were in exile in Jülich were elected mayor in absentia who could not exercise their office. It was not until in 1598 that already in 1593 by Emperor Rudolf II. Imposed outlawry had been completed final against the Reformed forces by imperial troops, the Catholic exiles could return to Aachen. After Schrick, as mayor forcibly removed from office in 1581, initially received priority in the subsequent replacement of the mayor's office, but died a few weeks later in September 1598, Wilhelm von Wylre was now officially his successor and as compensation for the term of office not exercised the year before elected to office. Subsequently, he was still significantly involved in the negotiations for the establishment of the new " Gymnasium Marianum of the Jesuit Order ", which took place in September 1601.

Wilhelm von Wylre remained unmarried and died a few weeks before the grammar school was founded on August 5, 1601. His diary about his time as a lay judge with the title: “ Etzliche observationes up the lay judge's court in Aich ” is in the Düsseldorf State Archives . As compensation for his banishment in 1602 the heirs were 1,800 Reichstaler paid.

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SURNAME Wylre, Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German aldermen and mayor of the imperial city of Aachen
DATE OF BIRTH 1539
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH August 5, 1601
Place of death Aachen