Arnold von Winkelried or Arnold Winkelried was a legendary hero of Swiss history. According to 16th-century Swiss historiography , Winkelried's sacrifice brought about the victory of the Old Swiss Confederacy in the Battle of Sempach (1386) …

The Winkelried family was a Swiss noble family of Unterwalden, recorded as members of the lower nobility during the second half of the 13th century and as commoners during the 14th to early 16th centuries.

Arnold Winkelried, oder Arnold von Winkelried, ist in der traditionellen Schweizer Nationalgeschichte der Held der Schlacht bei Sempach. Durch den freiwillig gewählten Opfertod soll er den Sieg der Acht Alten Orte gegen die Übermacht von Habsburg-Österreich ermöglicht haben. Im 19. Jahrhundert wurde Winkelried neben Wilhelm Tell eine der ...

Arnold von Winkelried (är´nôlt fən vĬng´kəlrēt), d. 1386, Swiss hero. His action at the battle of Sempach (July 9, 1386) is credited in legend with the Swiss defeat of the Austrians under Duke Leopold.

…personal heroism of a certain Arnold Winkelried, who was said to have deliberately gathered into his own body the lances of the vanguard of Austrian knights. The Battle of Sempach showed that an army of Swiss eidgenossen (“oath brothers”) armed primarily with the pike could defeat chivalric elites in the…

Heinrich von Winkelried (d. after 1303), known as Schrutan or Strut "the giant", was a medieval knight in what is now Central Switzerland. As Strut von Winkelried he became the subject of a legend which makes him a dragonslayer.

WINKELRIED, ARNOLD VON. The incident with which this name is connected is, after the feat of Tell, the best known and most popular in the early history of the Swiss Confederation.

Winkelried, Arnold von ärˈnôlt fən vĭngˈkəlrēt [key], d. 1386, Swiss hero. His action at the battle of Sempach (July 9, 1386) is credited in legend with the Swiss defeat of the Austrians under Duke Leopold.

ARNOLD VON. WINKELRIED The incident with which this name is connected is, after the feat of William Tell, the best known and most popular in the early history of the Swiss Confederation. We are told how, at a critical moment in the great battle of Sempach, when the Swiss had failed to break the serried ranks of the Austrian knights, a man of ...

Arnold von Winkelried, der Held der Schlacht bei Semp-ach 1386, ist die Nidwaldner Heldenfigur schlechthin! Der Sage nach stürzte er sich – als die Schlacht sich zu Ungunsten der Eidgenossen wendete – in die Spiesse der Habsburger Ritter und öffnete den Eidgenossen so eine Gasse zum Sieg. Als Held von Sempach fand Winkelried