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Duchy of Swabia
- Prior to 1495, Württemberg was a county in the former Duchy of Swabia, which had dissolved after the death of Duke Conradin in 1268.
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Württemberg coat of arms, 1495. Martin Luther's theses and his writings left no one in Germany untouched after 1517. In 1503, the family Baden-Sausenberg became extinct, and the whole of Baden was united by Christoph, who, before his death in 1527, divided it among his three sons. Religious differences increased the family's rivalry.
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
The kingdom was a continuation of the Duchy of Württemberg, which existed from 1495 to 1805. Prior to 1495, Württemberg was a county in the former Duchy of Swabia , which had dissolved after the death of Duke Conradin in 1268.
The foundations of the government of the Duchy of Württemberg were laid even before the elevation of the County of Württemberg in 1495. The House of Württemberg had governed the territory for centuries, but had split in half along the two branches of the family in 1442 by the Treaty of Nürtingen .
Württemberg was raised to ducal rank in 1495. In 1519, however, the Swabian League of cities, fearing the rising power of Württemberg, expelled Duke Ulrich I from his domains, and in 1520 it sold the duchy to the newly elected emperor Charles V. Ulrich, a turbulent
Count Eberhard im Bart ("the Bearded," 1445 – 1496) became a duke following the elevation of W ü rttemberg to a duchy by Emperor Maximilian I (ruled 1493 – 1519) at the Diet of Worms in 1495.
