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  • 4 - The Spinner-Lords of Saint Gallen

  • from Scene I - Hieronymus Sebastian Schutze and Hans Devil
  • Lucian Staiano-Daniels, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University
  • Book:
    The War People
    Published online:
    19 December 2024
    Print publication:
    19 December 2024, pp 58-76

  • Summary

    On November 30, 1625, a substantial quantity of fabric from a shipment intended for the Mansfeld Regiment’s third-most-honorable company went missing. The regimental legal establishment investigated the theft but covered up one key detail, revealed at the end of this chapter. This incident sheds light on the way this company interacted with a cloth trade that spanned Europe, in addition to the criminal activities of its captain/owner, regimental quartermaster Wolfgang Winckelmann. The investigation revealed that Winckelmann’s flag-bearer Hieronymus Sebastian Schutze also stole some fabric and distributed it to some men in this company. These men can be traced using social network analysis. This chapter argues that the concept of small group cohesion should be supplemented with the broader concept of military social networks.