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nal owner, Count Ulrich V of Württemberg (1413–1480), as well as the year in which it was made, 1460—information rarely known for any !fteenth-century object. The crossbow !rst received scholarly attention when its owner at the time, the noted British arms and armor scholar and collector Charles Alexander, baron de Cosson (1846–
Ulrich was born in 1413, the youngest child of Count Eberhard IV and his wife Henriette, Countess of Mömpelgard. [5] Eberhard died unexpectedly of illness on 2 July 1419, while Ulrich and his older brother Ludwig were both minors. [6] Consequently, Henriette became their guardian, together with a regency council of 32 Württembergers.
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The Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg. Dirk H. Breiding. Published in Metropolitan Museum journal 1 January 2009. History, Art. In 1904 the Metropolitan Museum acquired the arms and armor collection of Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, due de Dino (1843-1917), one of the foremost arms collec tors in nineteenth-century Paris.1 Among the ...
Ulrich V. „der Vielgeliebte“ (* 1413; † 1. September 1480 in Leonberg) war von 1433 bis 1441 Graf von Württemberg und von 1441 bis 1480 Graf von Württemberg-Stuttgart .
WÜRTTEMBERG. Ulrich von Württemberg (1487–1550) is undoubtedly one of the most prominent, but also most controversial figures in Württemberg's history. His fate is closely tied to that of his duchy, which he temporarily lost. He brought the Reformation to Württemberg and dissolved the Hirsau Monastery.
character of Württemberg’s transformation was attributable to the fact that its towns were strong and its nobles weak. There was, however, a crisis under Duke Ulrich (1487-1550), who clashed with the estates over his enormous debts and his handling of a rural insurrection in 1514. The
Crossbow of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg (1413–1480) Attributed to Heinrich Heid von Winterthur probably Swiss. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 373. Dated 1460 in the carved staghorn decoration, this is the earliest known dated crossbow in existence.
