 Waldmann lead the Confederates in the Burgundian Wars, defeating Charles the Bold with an army estimated at 12,000 men.As mayor of Zurich and a representative of the oligarchs in the Confederacy, Waldmann sought to impose higher taxes on neighbouring rural villages, which, taken together with a disdain for his reputed aristocratic excesses, led to a peasant revolt.500 peasants from Knonau are said to have toppled Waldmann as mayor in 1489.