Frederick Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg
Frederick Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg (20 July 1665 – 23 July 1689), was by birth Count Palatine of Neuburg and Imperial General.
Life
Born in Düsseldorf, he was the tenth child but seventh son of Philip William, Elector Palatine and Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Initially destined to the Church, in 1677 he was appointed Coadjutor and in 1685 Canon in Konstanz.[1] Also, he studied at the Heidelberg University, where he was Rector in 1685.
Later, Frederick Wilhelm abandoned the church career and entered in the Imperial army, where he obtain the rank of General. He fell in the Nine Years' War during in the Siege of Mainz (1689), where, during a visit in the trenches, one arquebus shot to the head killed instantly.[2] He was buried in St. Andrew's Church, Düsseldorf.
Notes
- ↑ Michael Masson, Das Königshaus Bayern: genealogisch bearbeitet und mit historisch-biographischen Notizen erläutert, Verl. des Hrsg., 1854, p. 139
- ↑ Johann Heinrich Hennes, Die Belagerung von Mainz im Jahr 1689, Editions Victor von Zabern, 1864, p. 29
References
- Gustav Prümm, Ein Gewinn fürs ganze Leben, Books on Demand, 2009, p. 120
- Johann Samuel Ersch, Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, J. f. Gleditsch, 1847, p. 23 on-line