age ~87
from Fort Worth, TX
1360
Mayor
The city's mayor was appointed from among these by the abbess of the influential Fraumünster.
The Fraumünster abbesses, traditionally women of the highest nobility, did retain considerable political influence, however, and the process was only completed with Huldrych Zwingli's Reformation in Switzerland in the 1520s, in the course of which the monasteries were shut down.
Author
Rudolf Brun
ISBN #
3596240115
Author
Rudolf Brun
ISBN #
3596240174
Rudolf Brun (1290s17 September 1360) was the leader of the Zrich guilds' revolution of 1336, and the city's first independent mayor. ...