St. Gallen (Saint Gall), Imperial free city

The city of St. Gallen proper progressively freed itself from the rule of the abbot, acquiring Imperial immediacy, and by 1401 is recognized as a Free imperial city.

By about 1353 the guilds, headed by the cloth-weavers guild, had gained control of the civic government In 1415 the city buys its liberty from the German king Sigismund.

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