Konrad Baumgarten
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Konrad Baumgarten or Conrad von Baumgarten is a hero of the Swiss liberation legend and, according to
Arnold von Melchthal. Baumgarten was a free and wealthy man who has killed, in his own residence, the local Habsburg sheriff Wolfenschiessen with an axe in defence of his wive Itta Baumgarten against the sheriff's trespass and inappropriate attempts to approach her. With the assistance of William Tell, Baumgarten managed to escape from the sheriff's warriors and to flee to Werner Stauffacher on the other side of Lake Lucerne.[1]
References
- ^ William Tell Act 1, scene 1
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