Diebold Schilling the Younger was a Swiss chronicler, priest, notary and soldier. He is best known as the author of the Luzerner Schilling, one of the Swiss illustrated chronicles, which he presented
Self-portrait of Diebold Schilling the Younger in the presentation miniature of the Luzerner Chronik
Stanser Verkommnis
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In the Stanser Verkommnis of 1481 the Tagsatzung solved the latent conflict between the rural and urban cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy, averting the breaking of the Confederacy, and triggering i
Diebold Schilling the Younger
…scandalous lifestyle led him to be imprisoned and put on trial in Lucerne. He received the priesthood no later than 1481, and followed his father to the Diet of Stans that same year. He is also attested as a public notary. In 1497, Schilling began working as an interpreter to the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, later…
Niklaus von Flüe counsels Heini Amgrund (top panel), which leads to a compromise resolution in Stans (bottom panel), illustration in the Luzerner Schilling of 1513
Facsimile edition of the treaty in Landesmuseum Zürich