Uri

Uri was an imperial valley community on the Reuss, between Lake Lucerne and the St Gotthard Pass. In 1337 it held imperial immediacy and belonged to an alliance with Schwyz and Unterwalden traditionally dated to 1291.

Uri helped defeat the Habsburgs at Sempach in 1386. With Obwalden it seized Leventina from Milan in 1403 and annexed Urseren in 1410; Marignano checked its expansion in 1515. Uri remained Catholic, was absorbed into the Helvetic canton of Waldstätten in 1798 and was restored by the Act of Mediation in 1803.