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.[1]
In 1635 he was promoted to the rank of Major-General and made a member of the emperor's staff, where he was responsible for reforming the armies following the Swedish example. From 1638 to 1641 he again fought in northern Italy, commanding his own regiment of Swiss mercenaries. He abandoned his military career in 1642 at the rank of Lieutenant Field Marshal (equivalent to a lieutenant general).
In 1642 he returned to Uri and became active in local politics. 1643 the emperor named Zwyer his official envoy in the Confederacy. From 1644 to 1659, he filled the top positions in Uri: he was one of the two representatives of Uri at the Tagsatzung, the federal council of the Old Swiss Confederacy, and from 1647 on also the Landammann (head of state) of the canton. In 1648, the Tagsatzung designated him and Johann Rudolf Wettstein, the mayor of Basel, the official negotiators of the Confederacy at the Treaty of Westphalia with the task to ensure the formal exemption of the Confederacy from the Holy Roman Empire. In winter 1650/51, the two were also sent on a diplomatic journey to Emperor Ferdinand III in order to achieve the liberation of some goods from the German Court.[2]
^Burckhardt, Paul (1942). Geschichte der Stadt Basel von der Zeit der Reformation bis zur Gegenwart. Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn. p. 63.
Zurfluh, A.: Zwyer, Sebastian Peregrin (von Evibach) in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland, 2002-10-07. URL last accessed 2006-11-21.
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Zurfluh, A.: Sebastian Peregrin Zwyer von Evebach. Eine sozio-kulturelle Biographie eines innerschweizerischen Kriegsmannes im Dienste der Habsburger während des Dreissigjährigen Krieges; Thesis Verlag 1993. ISBN3-908544-05-X.
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