Pact of Brunnen

European history

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importance in Switzerland

  • In Battle of Morgarten

    …than a month later (Pact of Brunnen, Dec. 9, 1315). It was one of the first victories by dismounted commoners over armoured knights in many years and marked the beginning of the rise of the Swiss eidgenossen (“oath brothers”) as the most ferocious shock combatants in Europe. Because of…

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