Karl (Württemberg-Bernstadt)

Karl von Württemberg-Bernstadt (born March 11, 1682 in Juliusburg ; † February 8, 1745 in Bernstadt ) was Duke of Württemberg- Bernstadt .

Life

Karl was the only surviving child of Duke Julius Siegmund von Württemberg-Juliusburg (1653–1684) from his marriage to Anna Sophia (1647–1726), daughter of Duke Adolf Friedrich I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Until 1704 he became Duke of Württemberg-Juliusburg after the death of his father in 1684. He attended the Rudolph-Antoniana Knight Academy in Wolfenbüttel . After the death of Duke Sylvius II. Friedrich von Oels , Karl's uncle Christian Ulrich took over the Duchy of Oels and Karl moved to the part of the Duchy of Bernstadt . On December 20, 1703 he married in MeiningenPrincess Wilhelmine Luise (1686–1753), daughter of Duke Bernhard I of Saxony-Meiningen . The marriage remained childless.

Karl ruled arbitrarily and wastefully. His councilors therefore turned to Emperor Joseph I in 1740 , who ruled against the duke. In 1742 Karl asked his governor for a new wig, which was not granted because of the "empty cassa". He sold the rule of Goschütz and the town of Festenberg , the latter to Count Heinrich von Reichenbach-Goschütz (1705–1775).

Since Karl's marriage had remained childless, after his death Bernstadt fell to Duke Karl Christian Erdmann von Oels , who was able to reunite all of the Silesian branches of the Württemberg house.

literature

• L. Wiesner: On the history of the dukes of Oels, Württemberg line, namely Carl Friedrichs von Oels and Carls von Bernstadt . In: Journal of the Association for History and Antiquity of Silesia . Pp. 170-178, in particular pp. 175-176 f. ( Digitized version )
• Oil . In: Johann Samuelansch and Johann Gottfried Gruber : General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts . 3rd Section, 1st Part, pp. 400–405, in particular p. 404 ( digitized version )

Web link

• http://genealogy.euweb.cz/wurttemb/wurtt3.html