Pfaffenbrief

The Pfaff letter dated October 7, 1370 was a treaty between Zurich, Lucerne, train, Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden. He stipulierte that secular and sacred persons in the territory of the Contracting Party of the local authority owed ​​obedience. The resident in the Confederates, clergy were forbidden to go to foreign courts, except in marriage and spiritual things. Furthermore, a feud ban was enacted.

The Pfaff letter of 1370, the Sempacherbrief of 1393 and the Stans Verkommnis of 1481 are in Swiss historiography commonly referred to as approaches to the creation of a state as a whole, an interpretation that has been tempered by recent studies.