Vorarlberg at the time of Hugo von Montfort

The focus of this article is the region known today as Vorarlberg as it was at the time of Hugo von Montfort, and the clashes between the Habsburgs and the Swiss Confederates, which spread onto today's Vorarlberg territory during the Appenzell Wars, in which Hugo von Montfort and his nephew Wilhelm VII participated as Lords of Bregenz. The author proves that the border between Switzerland and Austria, as it still exists today, evolved only at that time, and that this happened at the expense of minor nobilities such as the Montforts, who are viewed as the losers, as it were, of the political shifts of the time.