| Kunigunde Sinner survived her husband, who, as stated in the last newsletter, died between April 22nd and May 10th 1592 to at least twenty years. We encounter her name on April 14, 1603 in the minutes of the council of Willisau. The dispute in question had a credit balance, perhaps from a sale or an inheritance, as its subject. Kunigunde Sinner and her two sons Peter and Hans asserted their claims against a certain Loy (= Elogius) Hetschler, who represented his son in court, whose name is not mentioned. Hetschler lived in the Niederen Grund in Luthern, his first marriage was to Barbara Stirnimann, probably a sister of Heinrich Stirnimann. Hetschler is mentioned in the log of the Elogius Brotherhood of Luthern as their benefactor, he had donated 15 guilders to their red damask flags (5). Schultheiss and council decide that Kunigunde Sinner should take 50 guilders from Loy Hetschler each time on St. Matthias 1603, on St. Matthias 1604 and 1605, then the mother should take another 50 guilders, the rest belonged to Loy Hetschler (6). We hear one last time from Kunigunde Sinner when she and her son Peter donate the to the parish church in Sursee (7). We will come back to that again. We do not know when and where Kunigunde Sinner died and was buried. It can be assumed that her life ended in the house of her son Peter in the Lower Roth. Neither the death register of the parish Sursee, to which the courtyards in the Roth belonged at that time, nor that of the much closer parish church in Buttisholz mention her name. |
Heinrich Stirnimann
Anna Stirnimann
Prof. Joseph Stirnimann, Luzern