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{{Short description|Swiss chronicler}}
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[[Image:Schilling vaud looting.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Illustration by Diebold Schilling the Younger: Scenes of looting and burning by the Swiss troops deployed in the "land of Vaud" (in ''Luzerner Schilling'')]]
[[File:ZHB SoSa Portrait 009 cropped.jpg|thumb|right|Portrait of Diebold Schilling the Younger]]
'''Diebold Schilling''' the Younger (before 1460 - 3 November 1515(?)) was the author of the ''[[Luzerner Schilling]]'', one of the [[Swiss illustrated chronicles]], which he presented to the city council of [[Lucerne]] on 15 January 1513 (but which remained incomplete). He was the nephew of [[Diebold Schilling the Elder]] of [[Bern]]. The younger Diebold was a somewhat scandalous figure, not unlike his father Hans, brother to the elder Diebold, an adventurer who had  sought his fortune at the court of [[Matthias Corvinus]], and returned destitute in 1488. Diebold was a secretary in Lucerne from 1479, and received the priesthood in 1481. His behaviour was so unpriestly, however, that the city council locked him into the tower in 1487, where he remained imprisoned for two years before he was released on parole of exhibiting more appropriate behaviour in the future. After his release he was soon back to his old ways, and after he had killed a man after a tavern brawl, he was fined and obliged to read a mass for his victim every year. Diebold was fiercely anti-French, and he accused the Bernese in particular, as well as his fellow chronicler [[Petermann Etterlin]] because of their friendly attitude towards France. Diebold's own sympathies lay with the German emperor [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor|Maximilian I]], who personally invited him to the [[Holy Roman Empire|Reichstag]] in [[Konstanz]] in 1507. As an author, Diebold's most important contribution to the historiography of his times is his account of the years 1507&ndash;1509, the events of which he tells in his own words as an eye-witness.
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070311102726/http://www.faksimile.ch/werke/werk.php?l=e&show=2&nr=21 Lucerne chronicle facsimile]
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[[Category:Swiss chroniclers]]
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