Page "Abbey of Saint Gall" Paragraph 9

However, in early 1490 the four cantons decided to carry out their duty to the Abbey and to invade the St. Gallen canton with an armed force.

The people of Appenzell and the local clerics submitted to this force without noteworthy resistance, while the city of St. Gallen braced for a fight to the finish.

However, when they learned that their compatriots had given up the fight, they lost confidence ; the end result was that they concluded a peace pact that greatly restricted the city's powers and burdened the city with serious penalties and reparations payments.

Varnbüler and Schwendiner fled to the court of King Maximilian and lost all their property in St. Gallen and Appenzell.

However, the Abbot's reliance on the Swiss to support him reduced his position almost to that of a " subject district "