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The Duchy of Württemberg was formed when, at the Diet of Worms, 21 July 1495, Maximilian I, King of the Romans and Holy Roman Emperor, declared the Count of Württemberg (German: Graf von Württemberg), Eberhard V "the Bearded," Duke of Württemberg (German: Herzog von Württemberg).
The Hohenstaufen family controlled the duchy of Swabia until the death of Conradin in 1268, when a considerable part of its lands fell to the representative of a family first mentioned in about 1080, the count of Württemberg, Conrad von Beutelsbach, who took the name from his ancestral castle of Württemberg.
Duchy of Württemberg AD 1495 - 1806 (Additional information from Ulwencreutz's The Royal Families in Europe V, Lars Ulwencreutz.) 1495 - 1496: Eberhard I: Formerly Count Eberhard V. 1496 - 1498: Eberhard II: Formerly Count Eberhard VI. d.1504. 1498 - 1519: Ulrich I: 1519 - 1534: Württemberg is controlled by Austria. 1525
By the time Württemberg was made a duchy in 1495, the Estates (representative assembly) had come to play an important role in its government. Duke Ulrich , who became a vassal of the house of Habsburg in 1534, introduced Lutheranism into the duchy and confiscated church lands.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
While the duchy was at first little touched by the Thirty Years' War (1618 – 1648), large-scale invasions by imperial troops following the Battle of N ö rdlingen in 1634 led to a decline in the duchy's population from 415,000 to 97,000 by 1639. The wars of Louis XIV (ruled 1643 – 1715) continued to suppress population levels, and it was ...
The Duchy of Württemberg was a duchy located in the south-western part of the Holy Roman Empire. It was a state of the Holy Roman Empire from 1495 to 1806. The dukedom's long survival for over three centuries was mainly due to its size, being larger than its immediate neighbors.
Jun 14, 2018 · Württemberg was one of the beneficiaries of the Napoleonic Wars, rising rapidly from a relatively small duchy embedded in the Holy Roman Empire to become a sovereign kingdom by 1806, expanding considerably in size and changing its character from an overwhelmingly Lutheran and largely rural state to one with a large Catholic minority and some ...
