Ulrich (Württemberg-Neuenbürg)

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Ulrich , Duke of Württemberg-Neuenbürg (born May 15, 1617 in Stuttgart ; † December 5, 1671 ibid) was an officer in the Thirty Years' War and in the Franco-Spanish War . He founded the second branch of a Duke of Württemberg-Neuenbürg , which had already died out with him .

Life

Ulrich was the fourth son of Johann Friedrich , the seventh reigning Duke of Württemberg , and of Barbara Sophia of Brandenburg . Ulrich's baptism took place on July 14, 1617 during the wedding ceremony of his uncle Ludwig Friedrich von Württemberg-Mömpelgard with Elisabeth Magdalena von Hessen-Darmstadt. When Ulrich's father died in 1628, his older brother Eberhard III. the subsequent reigning Duke of Württemberg.

In 1630 Ulrich began a cavalier tour of France with his brothers and then spent the years from 1632 to 1634 with his mother in Kirchheim unter Teck . After the battle of Nördlingen , which the Protestants lost on September 6, 1634 , he was forced, like the rest of the Württemberg court, to leave for Strasbourg, where he waited four years before returning to Stuttgart in 1638 in Württemberg, which had been devastated by the imperial troops. Because of the continuation of the Thirty Years War , he decided to pursue a military career. From 1639 to 1640 he was in the pay of the Republic of Venice and fought in Italy. After a trip via Frankfurt, which took him to Denmark in 1643, he entered the service of the Electorate of Bavaria in 1644 as Rittmeister in the Werth Regiment . In 1645 he was appointed colonel of his own regiment and was able to save the commander of the Bavarian contingent, General Johann von Werth , from captivity by the Swedes in 1645 at the Battle of Jankau . He also took part in the Battle of Alerheim for Bavaria in 1645 and from 1647 in the rank of General Wachtmeister in 1648 in the Battle of Zusmarshausen in the last major battle of the Thirty Years' War on German soil. In 1648 he was briefly captured by Sweden near Straubing, from which the emperor bought him free.

With the peace treaty of Westphalia , in which the full restitution of Württemberg took place, Ulrich returned to his homeland and came to an agreement with his brother Eberhard III. on a hereditary comparison. In addition to an apanage, Ulrich received Neuenbürg Castle as a residence for himself and his heirs, albeit without gaining state sovereignty. With that he became the founder of the second branch line Württemberg-Neuenbürg , which, however, died out again with himself.

However, he could not use his residence in Neuenbürg, since he had switched to Spanish services after the Thirty Years' War and from 1649 to 1657 led further war missions against France as a general of the German-speaking troops in the Spanish Netherlands . In 1658 he changed the front and became a French lieutenant general. After the Peace of the Pyrenees in 1659, he did not have the opportunity to do a short war mission again until 1664, this time in the service of Emperor Leopold in the war against the Turks . In 1666 he was awarded the Elephant Order in Denmark , but no permanent prospect for a military post was promised. Since he was marked by increasing illnesses in his last years, including an eye ailment that cost him his eyesight, plans about a possible entry as a general in the Imperial Army were dashed through his death at the end of 1671.

family

On October 10, 1647, Ulrich married Countess Sophia Dorothea von Solms in Stuttgart (born September 9, 1622 at Laubach Castle ; † September 13, 1648 in Vilsbiburg ). She was the daughter of Count Heinrich von Solms-Sonnenwalde and Maria Magdalena geb. Countess of Oettingen-Oettingen. His wife accompanied him on his campaigns and gave birth to a daughter on September 12, 1648. The mother died the next day as a result of childbirth, the child two days after the mother.

Duke Ulrich remarried Princess Isabella von Arenberg-Barbençon (* 1623 in Barbençon , † August 17, 1678 in Paris) in Brussels in 1651 and converted to Catholicism for her. Princess Isabella was the daughter of Albert de Ligne-Arenberg, Duke and Prince of Barbençon (* 1600; † 1674 in Madrid) and Marie b. Countess of Barbençon (* 1602, † 1675). In 1652 Isabella Herzog Ulrich gave her daughter Maria Anna Ignacia (* 1653 in Brussels, † 1693 in Lyon). A second daughter, born on October 15, 1653, died early. The marriage with his second wife Isabella was unhappy for Duke Ulrich, so that he finally separated from her, but never officially divorced. His wife moved to Paris with their daughter. In 1657 Duke Ulrich converted to the Protestant faith again.

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SURNAME Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ulrich von Württemberg-Neuenbürg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Württemberg, Neuenbürg line
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1617
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH December 5, 1671
Place of death Stuttgart