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Eberhard I of Württemberg (11 December 1445 – 24 February 1496) was known as Count Eberhard V from 1459 to 1495, and from July 1495 he was the first Duke of Württemberg. He is also known as Eberhard im Bart (Eberhard the Bearded).
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The County of Württemberg was a historical territory with origins in the realm of the House of Württemberg, the heart of the old Duchy of Swabia. Its capital was Stuttgart. From the 12th century until 1495, it was a county within the Holy Roman Empire. It later became a duchy and, after the breakup of the Holy Roman Empire, a kingdom.
Eberhard I (13 March 1265, in Stuttgart – 5 June 1325, in Stuttgart) was Count of Württemberg from 1279 until his death. He was nicknamed 'der Erlauchte' or the Illustrious Highness.
Eberhard IV ( c. 1388 – 2 July 1419), called the Younger ( German: der Jüngere ), was Count of Württemberg from 1417 until his death in 1419. Life. Eberhard was born around 1388, the only surviving child of Count Eberhard III and his first wife Antonia Visconti, daughter of Bernabò Visconti.
Eberhard I was a count, later the 1st duke of Württemberg (from 1495), an administrative and ecclesiastic reformer who laid the foundations for Württemberg’s role in German history. Eberhard expanded his territories and in 1482 established primogeniture and settled the succession to his holdings.
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Eberhard II (1315 – 15 March 1392), nicknamed the Quarrelsome ( German: der Greiner ), was Count of Württemberg from 1344 until his death in 1392. [1] [2] He ruled Württemberg alongside his brother, Ulrich IV, until Eberhard forced him out of power in 1362.
According to this reading of German history, a bipolar sociopolitical structure existed, whereby the Mittelstaaten would declare their allegiances to either the Habsburg or Hohenzollern crowns.!e present work rejects this model of German history, through the use of the case study of the southwestern Kingdom of Württemberg.
