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Heinrich von Winkelried

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Heinrich von Winkelried (d. after 1303), known as Schrutan or Strut "the giant", was a medieval knight in what is now Central Switzerland. [1]

23 relations: Aegidius Tschudi, Alsace, Attila, Brothers Grimm, Central Switzerland, Chronicle of the Swiss Confederation, Chronicon Helveticum, Colmar, Continental Germanic mythology, Dragon, Ennetmoos, Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, Heldenbuch, Hermann von Liebenau, Knight, Mueterschwanderberg, Nibelung, Nibelungenlied, Rosengarten zu Worms, Rudolf I of Germany, Siege of Faenza, Stans, Winkelried.

Aegidius Tschudi

Aegidius (or Giles or Glig) Tschudi (5 February 150528 February 1572) was a Swiss statesman and historian, an eminent member of the Tschudi family of Glarus, Switzerland.

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Alsace

Alsace (Alsatian: ’s Elsass; German: Elsass; Alsatia) is a cultural and historical region in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland.

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Attila

Attila (fl. circa 406–453), frequently called Attila the Hun, was the ruler of the Huns from 434 until his death in March 453.

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Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm (die Brüder Grimm or die Gebrüder Grimm), Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, were German academics, philologists, cultural researchers, lexicographers and authors who together collected and published folklore during the 19th century.

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Central Switzerland

Central Switzerland is the region of the Alpine foothills geographically the heart and historically the origin of Switzerland, with the cantons of Uri, Schwyz, Obwalden, Nidwalden, Lucerne and Zug.

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Chronicle of the Swiss Confederation

The Chronicle of the Swiss Confederation (Kronika von der loblichen Eydtgenossenschaft) is the oldest printed chronicle of Switzerland.

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Chronicon Helveticum

The Chronicon Helveticum (Latin for "Swiss Chronicle") is one of the oldest accounts of the early history of the Swiss Confederation.

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Colmar

Colmar (Alsatian: Colmer; German during 1871–1918 and 1940–1945: Kolmar) is the third-largest commune of the Alsace region in north-eastern France.

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Continental Germanic mythology

Continental Germanic mythology is a subtype of Germanic paganism as practiced in parts of Central Europe during the 6th to 8th centuries, a period of Christianization.

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Dragon

A dragon is a large, serpent-like legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures around the world.

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Ennetmoos

Ennetmoos is a municipality in the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland.

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Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

Frederick II (26 December 1194 – 13 December 1250; Fidiricu, Federico, Friedrich) was King of Sicily from 1198, King of Germany from 1212, King of Italy and Holy Roman Emperor from 1220 and King of Jerusalem from 1225.

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Heldenbuch

Heldenbücher (singular Heldenbuch "book of heroes") is the conventional title under which a group of manuscripts and prints of the 15th and 16th centuries has come down to us.

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Hermann von Liebenau

Hermann von Liebenau (3 October 1807 – 28 July 1874) was a Swiss historian.

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Knight

A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch, bishop or other political leader for service to the monarch or a Christian Church, especially in a military capacity.

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Mueterschwanderberg

Mueterschwanderberg (also Mueterschwandenberg) is a ridge forming the southern shore of Alpnachersee, just northwest of Stanserhorn and west of the village of Ennetmoos, Nidwalden, Switzerland.

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Nibelung

The term Nibelung (German) or Niflung (Old Norse) is a personal or clan name with several competing and contradictory uses in Germanic heroic legend.

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Nibelungenlied

The Nibelungenlied (Middle High German: Der Nibelunge liet or Der Nibelunge nôt), translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem from around 1200 written in Middle High German.

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Rosengarten zu Worms

Dietrich and Siegfried from a 15th-century manuscript of the ''Rosengarten zu Worms'' Der Rosengarten zu Worms (the rose garden at Worms), sometimes called Der große Rosengarten (the big rose garden) to differentiate it from Der kleine Rosengarten (''Laurin''), and often simply called the Rosengarten, is an anonymous thirteenth-century Middle High German heroic poem in the cycle of Dietrich von Bern.

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Rudolf I of Germany

Rudolf I, also known as Rudolf of Habsburg (Rudolf von Habsburg, Rudolf Habsburský; 1 May 1218 – 15 July 1291), was Count of Habsburg from about 1240 and the elected King of the Romans from 1273 until his death.

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Siege of Faenza

The Siege of Faenza occurred in 1239.

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Stans

Stans is the capital of the canton of Nidwalden (Nidwald) in Switzerland.

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Winkelried

Winkelried was a family of Unterwalden, recorded as members of the lower nobility during the second half of the 13th century and as commoners during the 14th to early 16th centuries.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_von_Winkelried

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