Sebastian Peregrin Zwyer

Baron

Sebastian Peregrin Zwyer

von Evibach
Contemporary engraving by Johann Schwyzer
Born1597
Klingnau, Old Swiss Confederacy
Died15 February 1661(1661-02-15) (aged 63–64)
Altdorf, Uri, Old Swiss Confederacy
AllegianceHouse of Habsburg
Service years1612–1642
RankLieutenant Field-Marshal
ConflictsBattle of White Mountain
Battle of Nördlingen (1634)
Swiss peasant war of 1653
Battles of Villmergen
AwardsRitter (1653)
Reichsfreiherr (1658)
SpouseMaria Ursula von Roll
Other workLandeshauptmann of Uri (1648)

Sebastian Peregrin Zwyer (of Evibach) (1597 – 15 February 1661) was a Swiss military commander, mercenary entrepreneur, and one of the foremost politicians of the Old Swiss Confederacy in the seventeenth century.

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