Eppelein von Gailingen

Eppelein von Gailingen, latinized as Apollonius von Gailingen (born c. 1315 in Illesheim, Middle Franconia; died 15 May 1381 in Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz) was a famous German robber baron in the Middle Ages.

Eppelein took the opportunity to escape by galloping to the wall and forcing his horse to jump above it into the moat.

On his flight from Nuremberg, he was met by a peasant who wanted to witness the execution of the famous robber baron and asked him if he would be in time to see the hanging.

Eppelein's purportedly responded, "The Nurembergians will hang nobody - if they hadn't him before" ("Die Nürnberger hängen keinen – sie hätten ihn denn zuvor!").

This was supported by the fact that 50 years after Eppelein's jump the walls were destroyed and rebuilt much more massive than before.