Dortmund Recess
As Dortmund recess an agreement is called that between 31 May and 10 June 1609 between Elector Johann Sigismund of Brandenburg and Palatine Wolfgang William of Neuburg in view of the Jülich-Cleves succession dispute through the mediation of the Landgrave Moritz of Hesse Kassel came about.
The death of Johann Wilhelm , the last Duke of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , who died childless , made his sisters and their descendants entitled to inherit as a result of an imperial privilege of 1546. Thus the spouses of Johann Sigismund von Brandenburg and Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg were the main heirs. But there were differences of opinion among each other about the inheritance and also because the Electorate of Saxony also made claims. It was based on an imperial promise that the Duchy of Cleves should become attached to it when the male line became extinct.
In harmony with Saxony, Emperor Rudolf II demanded that Jülich, Kleve and Berg be sequestered until the matter was settled by mutual agreement and had both Archduke Leopold and his mercenaries and Archduke Albrecht from the Spanish Netherlands and troops move into the area. The imperial family took Jülich in May 1609 .
After this process, Johann Sigismund and Wolfgang Wilhelm agreed in Dortmund to have the disputed property administered jointly until a complete agreement was reached in the smoldering dispute. This lasted until November 12, 1614, when the Treaty of Xanten brought a temporary calming of the conflict among the heirs.
The fact that the Xanten contract ended the litigation is a misjudgment often expressed. In fact, some provisions of the treaty (such as that the unity of territories should be preserved) led to new potential for conflict. Only the comparison of inheritance in 1666 led to a final agreement between the two parties. In terms of imperial law, the succession dispute was not even ended until 1679, when Johann Wilhelm II of Pfalz-Neuburg was confirmed as the successor to Jülich-Berg by the then Emperor Leopold I.
The rulers of the Protestant faith, Johann Sigismund and Wolfgang Wilhelm, mobilized France , England and the Netherlands through the Dortmund recession . A European conflict could, however, be averted.
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- ↑ Jülich . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 9, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, p. 310.
- ↑ Dortmund . In: Meyers Konversations-Lexikon . 4th edition. Volume 5, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1885–1892, pp. 87–88.