Zwey schöne Lieder

Zwey schöne Lieder

: Das Erste: Vom Eppele von Gaylingen ; Das ander: Ein trauriges Lied/ Vom Obersten Vogelsperger genan[n]t/ so umb Unschuld mit dem Schwerdt hingericht worden ; In deß Lindenschmids Thon zusingen.

Account of the execution of Sebastian Vogelsperger, leader of a group of German Landsknechten (mercenary soldiers) who sold their services to the king of France. When the sentence was carried out on 7 February 1548, Vogelsperger made a bitter speech on the scaffold, accusing Lazarus von Schwendi, the German commander who had arrested him, of trapping him by false promises.

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Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin <Yd 8820>. VDLied Digital. 

[Augspurg] : Hannas, [ca. 1650]