Caspar Röist
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Caspar Röist
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Caspar Röist was a Swiss papal official and commander of the papacy's Swiss Guard. He died whilst commanding it in its last stand during the sack of Rome in 1527. A native of Zürich, and son of mayor of Zürich and colonel of the Swiss Guard Marx Röist (1454–1524), Röist was a student in Basel in 1494, and is recorded as a judge in Zürich during 1500–1505.
He married Anna Meyer of Knonau in 1500, and later Elisabeth Klingler, likely in 1517.
He served in the papal guard in the rank of a captain a
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Commander of the Papal Swiss Guard (1478–1527)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_R%C3%B6ist
date created:
2010-09-28T13:44:28Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T12:06:02Z
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