Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of Neuburg

Wolfgang William (Neuburg an der Donau, 4 November 1578 – 20 March 1653 Düsseldorf) was a German Prince. He was Count palatine of Neuburg and Duke of Jülich and Berg.

Life

His parents were Philip Louis, Count Palatine of Neuburg, and Anna of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, a daughter of Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. He was the winner of the Succession War for the Duchies of Jülich and Cleves (1609–1614), and became thus the first ruler of Pfalz-Neuburg, who was also Duke of Jülich and Duke of Berg. In 1615, he was made a Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece. Because he converted to Catholicism and practised a strict policy of neutrality in the Thirty Years' War, his territories escaped widespread destruction.

He moved his residence to Düsseldorf in 1636.

Marriage and issue

Wolfgang William married three times:

• In 1613 to Magdalene of Bavaria, who gave birth to Philip William, his successor.
• In 1631 to Catharina Elisabeth Charlotte of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, who gave birth to Ferdinand Philip and Eleonore Franziska.
• In 1651 to Countess Maria Franziska of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg, they had no children.

Ancestry

External links

• Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of Neuburg in the German National Library catalogue (German)
• Biography and Portrait of Count palatine Wolfgang Wilhelm von Neuburg
• Ronny Baier (2003). Bautz, Traugott. ed (in German). Pfalz-Neuburg, Wolfgang Wilhelm von, Pfalzgraf von Pfalz-Neuburg und Herzog von Jülich und Berg. Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). 21. Nordhausen. cols. 1163–1168. ISBN 3-88309-110-3. http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/p/pfalz_w_w.shtml.