Wyss (patrician family, with the lily)

The family of Franz Salomon Wyss, portrait by Pierre-Nicolas Legrand (1796)

The Wyss family , with the lily in their coat of arms, was a Bernese patrician family that had been a citizen of the city of Bern from around 1500 and died out in 1887.

people

• Hans Wyss († 1548), governor of Bonmont
• Hans Wyss († 1600), bailiff of Saanen, monastery conductor in Zofingen
• Bernhard Wyss (1542–1588), Lord of Rümligen
• Hans Rudolf Wyss (1554–1594), Lord of Rümligen
• Jakob Wyss († 1592), Lord of Villars, Governor of Yverdon, Governor of Lausanne, of the Small Council
• Hans Wyss (1588–1638), choir writer, governor of Saanen, of the Small Council, governor of Interlaken
• Hans Jakob Wyss (1577–1623), lord of Villars
• Hans Franz Wyss (1615–1673), Lord of Villars
• Hans Franz Wyss (1646–1710), Governor of Thorberg
• Kaspar Wyss (1656–1734), pen conductor, of the Small Council
• Samuel Wyss (1677–1755), Lord of Mathod
• Hans Jakob Wyss (1719–1796), Landvogt zu Brandis, Kornherr, Kastlan zu Frutigen
• Franz Salomon Wyss (1750-1817), German fief commissioner
• Franz Salomon Wyss (1796–1849), major general in Austria

archive

• Wyss family archive (Lily), Bern Burger Library , FA Wyss 1–3

literature

• Hans Braun: Wyss (BE, with the lily). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Face to face. Portrait studies. Michael Stettler on his 70th birthday, compiled and edited. von Florens Deuchler et al., Stämpfli, Bern 1983, ISBN 3-7272-9207-5 .

Web links

Commons : Wyss family (fleur-de-lys)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wyss coat of arms (lily) on www.chgh.ch