Editing Swiss Guards (section)

==Swiss in other armies==
Swiss Guard units similar to those of France were in existence at several other Royal Courts and public entities at the dates indicated below:
	
*From 1579 on, a Swiss Guard served the [[House of Savoy]], rulers of [[Savoy]] and later the [[Kingdom of Sardinia (1720–1861)|Kingdom of Sardinia]]. The Guard was dissolved in 1798.<ref>{{cite book|first=Philip|last=Mansel|pages=7&16|title=Pillars of Monarchy. An Outline of the Political and Social History of Royal Guards 1400-1981|year=1984|publisher=Quartet Books |isbn=0-7043-2424-5}}</ref>
*From 1696 to 1713, a Swiss Guard served at the court of [[Frederick I of Prussia]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Philip |last=Mansel|page=159|title=Pillars of Monarchy. An Outline of the Political and Social History of Royal Guards 1400-1981|year=1984|publisher=Quartet Books |isbn=0-7043-2424-5}}</ref>
*A ''Cent-Suisse'' unit was in existence from 1656 to 1680, from 1725 until 1757 and again from 1763 to 1814 in the [[Kingdom of Saxony]].<ref>Heinrich Türler, Viktor Attinger, Marcel Godet: ''Historisch-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz.'' Vierter Band, Neuenburg 1927.</ref><ref>Alfred von Welck: Schweizer Soldtruppen in Kursächsischen Diensten 1701–1815. Neues Archiv für Sächsische Geschichte und Alterthumskunde, Herausgeber Dr. Hubert Ermisch, vierzehnter Band, Wilhelm Baensch, Königlich Sächsische Hofverlagsbuchhandlung, Dresden 1893.</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Philip|last=Mansel|page=16|title=Pillars of Monarchy. An Outline of the Political and Social History of Royal Guards 1400-1981|year=1984|publisher=Quartet Books |isbn=0-7043-2424-5}}</ref>
*From 1672 until 1796, a company of Swiss (''Cent-Suisses'') served as a personal guard for the [[Stadhouder]] of the Dutch Republic;<ref>Robert Murray Bakker (Albach): [http://download.burgenverein-untervaz.ch/downloads/dorfgeschichte/1797-Die%20Schweizer%20Regimenter%20in%20holl%C3%A4ndischen%20Diensten.pdf ''Die Schweizer Regimenter in holländischen Diensten 1693-1797''], article in ''Jahrbuch der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Familienforschung'', 1989, p. 57–104, edited in [http://www.burgenverein-untervaz.ch/dorfgeschichte ''Texte zur Geschichte von Untervaz''], Untervazer Burgenverein, Untervaz, 2012.</ref> besides a Dutch Guards Regiment. There was also a Swiss Guards Regiment from 1749 to 1796.<ref>{{cite book|first=Joep|last=van Hoof|page=136|title=Pillars of Monarchy. Military Uniforms in the Netherlands 1752-1800|year=2011|publisher=Nederlands Insttuut voor Militaire Historie |isbn=978-3-902526-49-6}}</ref>[[File:Cent suisses retousched.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Dutch Republic: Life guards "Cent Suisse", 1752]]
*The aristocratic [[Republic of Genoa]] had a Swiss Guard in service from 1609 to 1797 for its [[Doge's Palace, Genoa|Doge's Palace]] and city gates.<ref>Angelo Terenzoni: I Militari Svizzeri al servizio della Repubblica di Genova. Presentazione al convegno Le alabarda, La Repubblica di Genova, La Guardia Svizzera e non solo, Biblioteca Berio, Genova 2010.</ref>
*A Swiss Guard established in 1581 for the Duke of [[Lorraine]], served Duke [[Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor|Francis-Stephen]], indemnified with the [[Grand Duchy of Tuscany]] in 1737, in [[Florence]]<ref name="Schürmann"/> and, crowned emperor of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] in 1745, in Austria. It was dismissed 1767 in [[Vienna]].<ref name="Schürmann">Joseph Schürmann-Roth: Die Gardisten der Eidgenössischen Garde in Lothringen, Florenz und Wien im 17./18. Jahrhundert, Personenregister (bearbeitet), Staatsarchiv Luzern 1989.</ref>[[File:Wien Hofburg amalienburg und Reiskanzleitrakt.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|Courtyard of the [[Hofburg]], with the gate called Schweizertor to the right, and the statue of emperor [[Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor|Francis II]] at centre]]
*The Swiss Guard to the [[Electoral Palatinate]] by Rhine was several times disbanded and reformed between 1582 and 1778.<ref>Friedrich Vogel: [https://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/titleinfo/8611740 ''Die alten Chroniken oder Denkwürdigkeiten der Stadt und Landschaft Zürich von den ältesten Zeiten bis 1820''], Druck und Verlag von Friedrich Schulthess, Zürich 1845. https://www.e-rara.ch/i3f/v20/8611740/manifest.</ref><ref>[https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10387150?page=154 "Die churpfälzische Armee 1701-1777"]. In Friedrich Münich, ''Geschichte der Emntwicklung der bayerischen Armee in zwei Jahrhunderten'', Lindauer, Munich 1864.</ref>
*The Gate, Palace and Treasury (''Ufficio dell'Abbondanza'', Italian for "office for abundance") of the City Republic of [[Lucca]] were protected by a Swiss Guard from 1663 to 1804.<ref>Staatsarchiv [[Lucerne|Luzern]], [https://query-staatsarchiv.lu.ch/detail.aspx?ID=734846 AKT 13].</ref>
*[[Khedive]] Mohamed [[Tewfik Pasha]] hired an irregular Swiss Guard in 1882 for the constabulary of [[Alexandria]]; it was dismissed the next year.<ref>Hilaire Gay du Borgeal: ''La Garde Européenne en Égypte'', Librairie de H. Stapelmohr, Imprimerie Taponnier et Studer, Geneva 1884.</ref>
*From more than a half-dozen Swiss Life Guard units employed at various dates to protect the Pope and individual Papal legates, only the [[Papal Swiss Guard]] has survived until the present day, under a special accord with the Swiss Government.<ref name="BR">Protokoll der Sitzung des Bundesrates vom 15. Februar 1929, 297. Le nouveau statut du St. Siège.</ref>

In total, [[Swiss mercenaries|Swiss mercenary regiments]] have been employed as guard and regular line troops in seventeen different armies; notably those of [[France]],<ref>{{cite book|first=Rene|last=Chartrand|page=6|title=Louis XV's Army (3). Foreign Infantry|date=15 July 1997|publisher=Bloomsbury USA |isbn=1-85532-623-X}}</ref> [[Spain]]<ref>Rene Chartrand, page 20, "Spanish Army of the Napoleonic Wars 1793–1808", {{ISBN|1-85532-763-5}}</ref> and [[Naples]]<ref>Giorgio Franzosi, page 51 "L'Esercito delle Due Sicile", Rivista Militare 1987</ref> (see [[Swiss mercenaries]]).