184 Chronology
(^) General Klettgau/Thurgau/Konstanz/Hegau
Bishop and city of Basel pressed by
Maximilian to join Swabian League
1495 Inner Swiss freebooters invade TG to
compel Konstanz to surrender TG,
supposedly a shelter for Jewish
usurers
King Maximilian urges Konstanz
to join Swabian League, rather than
CH
1496 CH refuses imperial taxes for
planned Rome campaign
Hans Gradner sells Eglisau to Zürich
Konstanz to be offered associated
membership of CH
1497 Perpetual Alliance between VII
Orte and Grey League
Mediators from ZH, LU, SZ. GL to
act; III Orte promise to avoid armed
conflict even though Konstanz has
now joined Swabian League
Hegau treaty between landgraviate of
Nellenburg and imperial knights
Kontanz cathedral chapter joins
Swabian League, followed by bishop
Bishop of Konstanz swears alliance to
X Orte; Bern to be urged to join
1498 Rottweil seeks permission to join
Swabian League
Konstanz joins Swabian League
1499 Swiss (Swabian) War February: CH troops march to
Schaffhausen, Diessenhofen
Basel remains neutral (though
member of Lower Union)
February: Solothurn refrains from
invading Fricktal and into TG
Counts of Sulz and bishop of
Konstanz seek to remain neutral
Swiss diet plans to detach Konstanz
from Swabian League and declare it a
‘free intermediary’
Schaffhausen fails to take Lower
Klettgau
Zürich seeks to annex Klettgau
Abbot of St Gallen encroaches on TG
territorial court
July: Zürich upholds Burgrecht with
Klettgau, but since conquered by CH
should be held as common lordship