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In 1519 Württemberg came under Austrian rule after the castle surrendered and Duke Ulrich was banished. Christoph was sent to the court of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in Innsbruck where he grew up and was able to gain political experience under Habsburg tutelage. Maximilian's successor Charles V took him on his travels through Europe.
Heir to House of Württemberg. He was born in Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, the second son of Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg (1893–1975) and Archduchess Rosa of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (1906–1983). He became heir to the headship of the House of Württemberg after his older brother Ludwig renounced his succession rights.
John Frederick of Württemberg was the eldest son of Frederick I and Sibylla of Anhalt. He was born in Montbéliard castle which he left at the age of four when his family moved its residence to Stuttgart . John Frederick married Barbara Sophie of Brandenburg (16 November 1584 – 13 February 1636), daughter of Joachim Frederick, Elector of ...
Ulrich served the German king, Maximilian I, in the War of the Succession of Landshut in 1504, receiving some additions to Württemberg as a reward; he accompanied Maximilian on his unfinished journey to Rome in 1508; and he marched with the imperial army into France in 1513. Meanwhile, in Württemberg Ulrich had become very unpopular.
Mother. Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont. Princess Hermine of Schaumburg-Lippe ( German: Prinzessin Hermine zu Schaumburg-Lippe) ( Bückeburg, 5 October 1845 – Regensburg, 23 December 1930) was a member of the princely family of Schaumburg-Lippe who was the consort of Duke Maximilian of Württemberg from 1876 until his death in 1888. [1]
Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg (1797–1860), a nephew of Friedrich, the first King of Württemberg, made his name as an explorer, naturalist, and ethnographer in the course of several expeditions to the Americas, North Africa, and Australia, visiting the United States in 1822–1824, 1829–1831, 1849–1856, and 1857–1858.10 At his castle in Mergentheim he established what at that time ...
Frederick I (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Karl; 6 November 1754 – 30 October 1816) was the ruler of Württemberg from 1797 to his death. He was the last Duke of Württemberg from 1797 to 1803, then the first and only Elector of Württemberg from 1803 to 1806, before raising Württemberg to a kingdom in 1806 with the approval of Napoleon I.
