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Burkhard VII. Münch (died 29 August 1444) was a knight and life peer, a renowned late member of the Landskron branch of the Münch family. His reputation rests primarily on his death at the Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs. Burkhard's death spelled the end of the family Münch of Landskron, which ended completely when his brother Johann IX. died in 1461. ==St. Jakob an der Birs== Being a Habsburg faithful, Burkhard rode as knight with Dauphin Louis XI and Jean V de Bueil. He was also named by the French as Bourgeamoine. He joined the Armagnacs in the battle against the Swiss Eidgenossenschaft as negotiator, translator and guide. His demeanour following the Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs is a theme in Swiss patriotic historiography. The Battle of St. Jakob an der Birs was fought on 26 August 1444. The Swiss had attacked a much larger force of Armagnac mercenaries, and as the offensive party categorically refused to surrender. They retreated to a last stand in a small hospital of St. Jakob, where they were decimated by artillery. As the Dauphin's translator, Burkhard was sent as negotiator to the decimated Swiss in the hospital to offer them the chance of honorable surrender and safe conduct. But as he rode into the hospital, and the many dead and wounded among the Swiss he is said to have raised the visor of his helmet and mocked the ''Eidgenossen'' in a phrase that would become famous in Swiss historiography: ''Ich siche in ein rossegarten, den min fordren geret hand vor 100 () joren'' ("I gaze out into a rosarium, that my ancestors planted one hundred years ago").〔 The utternace is recorded in this phrasing by the contemporary chronicler Erhard von Appenweiler (d. 1471). See e.g. ''Neujahrsblatt der Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Guten und Gemeinnützigen", no. 122, Basel (1944).〕 Provoked by this arrogant phrase, one of the dying Swiss, one Arnold Schick of Uri, hurled a rock into the open visor. The equally famous answer that accompanied the throw was reported as: ''Da friss eine der Rosen!'' ("Here, eat one of the roses").〔Use of the rose as a metaphor for a bleeding wound, originally of the wounds of Christ in Christian mysticism, was a widespread literary trope at the time (and throughout the German literature of the early modern period). C.f. e.g. Wilhelm Ludwig Döring, ''Die königin der blumen; oder Die höhere bedeutung der rose an sich und in beziehung auf die gemüthswelt'', 1835, (p. 546 ).〕 Burkhard fell from his saddle and was dragged from the battlefield. He died from his wounds three days later. The Swiss refusal to surrender led to the storming of the hospital, in which the defenders were killed nearly to the last man. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Burkhard VII. Münch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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