Albrecht Gessler

Swiss folk hero William Tell shows Gessler the arrow he meant to kill him with.

Albrecht Gessler, also known as Hermann,[1] was a legendary 14th-century Habsburg bailiff (German: Landvogt) at Altdorf,[2] whose brutal rule led to the William Tell rebellion and the eventual independence of the Old Swiss Confederacy.[3][4]

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