The goodly Tell recoiled. He begged for mercy for what was asked was not natural. He would do anything else asked. Now Tell saw that he could not avert the issue.

He took the arrow and placed one in his quiver. With the other hand he took another arrow, loaded it in the crossbow and asked God to protect his child.

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Download as PDF Printable version. Still essentially based on the account in the White Book , Tschudi adds further detail. Tschudi is known to habitually have "fleshed out" his sources, so that all detail from Tschudi not found in the earlier accounts may be suspected of being Tschudi's invention.

It is Tschudi's version that became influential in early modern Switzerland and entered public consciousness as the "William Tell" legend.

According to Tschudi's account, William Tell was known as a strong man, a mountain climber, and an expert shot with the crossbow. In his time, the House of Habsburg emperors of Austria were seeking to dominate Uri, and Tell became one of the conspirators of Werner Stauffacher who vowed to resist Habsburg rule.

He raised a pole under the village lindentree , hung his hat on top of it, and demanded that all the townsfolk bow before it.

In Tschudi's account, on 18 November , Tell visited Altdorf with his young son. He passed by the hat, but publicly refused to bow to it, and was consequently arrested.

Gessler was intrigued by Tell's famed marksmanship, but resentful of his defiance, so he devised a cruel punishment. Tell and his son were both to be executed; however, he could redeem his life by shooting an apple off the head of his son Walter in a single attempt.

Tell split the apple with a bolt from his crossbow. Gessler then noticed that Tell had removed two crossbow bolts from his quiver, so he asked why.

Tell was reluctant to answer, but Gessler promised that he would not kill him; he replied that, had he killed his son, he would have killed Gessler with the second bolt.

Gessler was furious and ordered Tell to be bound, saying that he had promised to spare his life, but would imprison him for the remainder of his life.

Tschudi's continues that Tell was being carried in Gessler's boat to the dungeon in the castle at Küssnacht when a storm broke on Lake Lucerne , and the guards were afraid that their boat would sink.

They begged Gessler to remove Tell's shackles so that he could take the helm and save them. Gessler gave in, but Tell steered the boat to a rocky place and leaped out.

The site is known in the "White Book" as the "Tellsplatte" "Tell's slab" ; it has been marked by a memorial chapel since the 16th century.

Tell ran cross-country to Küssnacht with Gessler in pursuit. Tell assassinated him using the second crossbow bolt, along a stretch of the road cut through the rock between Immensee and Küssnacht, which is known as the Hohle Gasse.

Tschudi also has an account of Tell's death in , according to which he was killed trying to save a child from drowning in the Schächental River in Uri.

There are a number of sources for the Tell legend later than the earliest account in the White Book of Sarnen but earlier than Tschudi's version of ca.

These include the account in the chronicle of Melchior Russ from Lucerne. The Chronicon Helveticum was compiled by Aegidius Tschudi of Glarus in the years leading up to his death in early For more than years, it existed only in manuscript form, before finally being edited in — Therefore, there is no clear "date of publication" of the chronicle, and its date of composition can only be given approximately, as "ca.

It is Tschudi's account of the legend, however, which became the major model for later writers, even prior to its edition in print in the s, [8].

A widespread veneration of Tell, including sight-seeing excursions to the scenes of his deeds, can be ascertained for the early 16th century.

Heinrich Brennwald in the early 16th century mentions the chapel Tellskapelle on the site of Tell's leap from his captors' boat.

Willem Tell vluchtte naar Küssnacht en schoot op de holle weg van Küssnacht am Rigi de gehate landvoogd dood met zijn kruisboog. De rest van de Tell-legende vermeldt alleen dat hij in zou hebben meegevochten in de Slag bij Morgarten tegen de Oostenrijkse hertog Leopold I van Habsburg en in zou zijn verdronken in de wilde bergbeek Schächenbach toen hij een kind probeerde te redden.

Evenals zijn Engelse 'collega' Robin Hood is Tells avontuurlijk leven vaak verfilmd, ook als erop voortbordurende televisieserie.

Het verhaal van Willem Tell past perfect in de onafhankelijkheidsstrijd van Zwitserland en zijn landsknechten sinds Sinds dat jaar verzet een aantal Zwitserse staatjes zich tegen de heerschappij van de Habsburgers.

Den damit verbundenen Preisnachlass geben wir an Sie weiter. Kontakt Kontaktformular. Baron Kriessern Klemens Niklaus Trenkle Knight Monika Baechler Lola Maik van Epple Edit Storyline Helvetia, - As the Robin Hood of the mountains, this outlaw named Tell turns into a legendary freedom fighter in the name of the confederation and brings bailiff Gessler and the Habsburgs to their knees.

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