Image:Sigismund von Erlach engraving.jpg

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Sigismund von Erlach, commander of Bernese troops in the Swiss peasant war of 1653 and also in the first war of Villmergen in 1656.

Immediate image source: scanned from Wahlen, H., Jaggi, E.: Der Schweizerische Bauernkrieg 1653 und die seitherige Entwicklung des Bauernstandes; Oekonomische und gemeinnützige Gesellschaft des Kantons Bern; Buchverlag Verbandsdruckerei, Bern, 1952.

Original source: 17th century engraving by Johann Schwyzer. Original at the Swiss National Library (Landesbibliothek) in Berne.

Color version: Image:Sigismund von Erlach.jpg


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