Düsseldorf cow war

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The Düsseldorf Cow War took place in 1651. Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg tried to turn the Jülich-Klevischen succession dispute with a bold coup. His opponent was Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg . The name was a mockery for the preying of cows on the grounds of the castle of the Countess of Pfalz-Neuburg near Düsseldorf. The conflict was settled by Otto Christoph von Sparr .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf-Peter Fuchs: A 'Medium for Peace'. Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-71927-7 , p. 318 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Clemens von Looz-Corswarem : Der Düsseldorfer Kuhkrieg 1651. In: Fürsten, Macht und Krieg , ed. by Sigrid Kleinbongartz, 2014, pp. 90-100.
  3. ↑ Ernst Huckenbeck: The conquest of Haus Hort . An episode from the "Düsseldorfer Kuhkrieg" 1651. Hildener Jahrbuch 4 (1983), ed. by Gerd Müller, pp. 133–151.
  4. ^ David M. Luebke: Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany. Berghahn Books, 2012, ISBN 978-0-857-45376-1 , p. 77 ( limited preview in Google book search).