![]() ![]() Tell is a central figure in Swiss national historiography, along with Arnold von Winkelried, the hero of Sempach (1386). Set in the early 14th century (traditional date 1307, during the rule of Albert of Habsburg), the first written records of the legend date to the latter part of the 15th century, when the Swiss Confederacy was gaining military and political influence. Tell was considered the father of the Swiss Confederacy. ![]() ![]() Tell's defiance and tyrannicide encouraged the population to open rebellion and a pact against the foreign rulers with neighbouring Schwyz and Unterwalden, marking the foundation of the Swiss Confederacy. William Tell ( German: Wilhelm Tell, pronounced ( listen) French: Guillaume Tell Italian: Guglielmo Tell Romansh: Guglielm Tell) is a folk hero of Switzerland.Īccording to the legend, Tell was an expert mountain climber and marksman with a crossbow who assassinated Albrecht Gessler, a tyrannical reeve of the Austrian dukes of the House of Habsburg positioned in Altdorf, in the canton of Uri. Tell is arrested for not saluting Gessler's hat (mosaic at the Swiss National Museum, Hans Sandreuter, 1901) ![]()
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