Paul Buol von Strassberg und Rietberg

He was the son of Johann Anton Buol von Strassberg and married Narcissa von Planta-Wildenberg. He served as Landamman of the League of the Ten Jurisdictions in 1673, captain of the Valtellina from 1681 to 1683, and Landamman of the jurisdiction of Churwalden in 1683. He was also a colonel in Spanish service and a delegate of the Three Leagues to the courts of Spain and Austria.^[1]

After his conversion to Catholicism in 1691, Buol renounced his right of citizenship in the League of the Ten Jurisdictions. In 1692 he bought half of Rietberg Castle, whose name he took when Leopold I made him a baron of the Holy Roman Empire in 1696. He was a prominent figure of the Spanish-Austrian party. The house he had built in Chur around 1675 has housed the Rätisches Museum since 1872.^[1]

 This article incorporates text from a free content work. Licensed under CC-BY SA. Text taken from Buol von Strassberg und Rietberg, Paul​, Jürg Simonett, Historical Dictionary of Switzerland. Translated by Corinne Giroud Caspar.

• A. Maissen, Die Landrichter des Grauen Bundes 1424–1797, 1990, p. 94.