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William IV of Jülich-Berg (9 January 1455 – 6 September 1511) was the last ruler of the Duchy of Jülich-Berg . Life. William was the son of Gerhard VII, Duke of Jülich-Berg and Sophie of Saxe-Lauenburg. When his father died in 1475, William became Duke of Jülich-Berg.
His parents were William the Rich, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg (1516–1592) and Maria of Austria (1531–1581), a daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. He grew up and was educated in Xanten. Johann Wilhelm became Bishop of Münster.
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William's humanistic education was headed by Konrad Heresbach. William in turn built a humanistic gymnasium in Dusseldorf in 1545. He attempted to uphold the Erasmian church, but did little to stop Lutheranism from spreading through the populace.After 1554, William appointed a Lutheran preacher to educate his sons. From 1538 to 1543, William held t...
William married Jeanne d'Albret (1528–1572), heiress of Navarre as the daughter of King Henry II of Navarre and his wife Margaret of Valois-Angoulême, on 14 June 1541 when she was just 12 years old, but this political marriage was later annulled by papal dispensation on 12 October 1545. William married Maria of Austria (1531–1581), daughter of Ferd...
Bietenholz, Peter G.; Deutscher, Thomas Brian, eds. (2003). Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. Vol. 1–3. University of Toronto Press.Ward, A.W. (1905). "The Empire under Rudolf II". In Ward, A.W.; Prothero, G.W.; Leathes, Stanley (eds.). The Cambridge Modern History. Vol. III. Cambridge at the University Press.Ward, A.W.; Prothero, G.W.; Leathes, Stanley, eds. (1934). The Cambridge Modern History. Vol. XIII. Cambridge at the University Press.Darsie, Heather R. (2023). Children of the House of Cleves: Anna and Her Siblings. Amberley Publishing. ISBN 9781445699424.
William IV of Jülich-Berg (9 January 1455 – 6 September 1511) was the last ruler of the Duchy of Jülich-Berg.
William IV of Jülich-Berg (9 January 1455 - 6 September 1511) was the last ruler of the Duchy of Jülich-Berg. Life. William was the son of Gerhard VII, Duke of Jülich-Berg and Sophie of Saxe-Lauenburg. When his father died in 1475, William became Duke of Jülich-Berg.
2 de jul. de 2021 · The last independent duke of this line, Wilhelm IV, reigned from 1475 to 1511, and married two times, but produced no sons. In 1510, he therefore made an agreement with his neighbour, Duke Johann II of Cleves and Mark, that their children would marry (the ‘Cleves Union’).
21 de jun. de 2021 · Son of Gerhard VII Duke of Jülich and Berg and Sophie von Sachsen-Lauenburg. Husband of Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken, Herzogin zu Jülich-Berg, Gräfin zu Ravensberg and Sibylle von Brandenburg, Herzogin zu Jülich-Berg, Gräfin zu Ravensberg. Ex-partner of N.N. N.N.
