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Diebold Schilling the Younger (died
3 December 1515) was the author of the "
Luzerner Schilling", one of the
Swiss illustrated chronicles, which he presented to the city council of
Lucerne on
15 January,
1513 (but which remained incomplete). He was the nephew of
Diebold Schilling the Elder of
Berne. The younger Diebold was a somewhat scandalous figure, not unlike his father
Hans, brother to the elder Diebold, an adventurer who had sought his fortune at the court of
Matthias Corvinus, and returned destitute in 1488. Diebold was a secretary in Lucerne from 1479, and received the priesthood in 1481. His behaviour was so unpriestly, however, that the city council locked him into the tower in 1487, where he remained imprisoned for two years before he was released on parole of exhibiting more appropriate behaviour in the future. After his release he was soon back to his old ways, and after he'd killed a man after a tavern brawl, he was fined and obliged to read a mass for his victim every year. Diebold was fiercely anti-French, and he accused the Bernese in particular, as well as his fellow chronicler
Petermann Etterlin because of their friendly attitude towards France. Diebold's own sympathies lay with the German emperor
Maximilian I, who personally invited him to the
Reichstag in
Konstanz in 1507. As an author, Diebold's most important contribution to the historiography of his times is his account of the years 1507–1509, the events of which he tells in his own words as an eye-witness.
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