Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg

Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg (4 November 1578 in Neuburg an der Donau – 14 September 1653 in Düsseldorf) was a German Prince. He was Count palatine of Neuburg and Duke of Jülich and Berg.

Wolfgang William
Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg; painting by Johannes Spilberg (c. 1648)
Count Palatine of Neuburg
Reign	22 August 1614 – 14 September 1653
Predecessor	Philipp Ludwig
Successor	Philip William
Born	4 November 1578 Neuburg an der Donau
Died	14 September 1653 (aged 74) Düsseldorf
Spouse	Magdalene of Bavaria Catharina Elisabeth Charlotte of Palatinate-Zweibrücken Maria Franziska of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
Issue	Philip William Ferdinand Philip Eleonore Franziska
House	Wittelsbach
Father	Philip Louis, Count Palatine of Neuburg
Mother	Anna of Jülich-Cleves-Berg
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Wolfgang Wilhelm

Life

Wolfgang Wilhelm's 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 War of the Jülich Succession (1609–1614), and became thus the first ruler of Palatinate-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.

Wolfgang Wilhelm moved his residence to Düsseldorf in 1636.

Marriage and issue

Wolfgang Wilhelm married three times:

• In 1613 to Magdalene of Bavaria, who gave birth to
  • Philip William, his successor.
• In 1631 to Catharina Charlotte of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, daughter of John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, who gave birth to Ferdinand Philip and Eleonore Franziska. Both children died young.
• In 1651 to Countess Maria Franziska of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg, daughter of Egon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg, they had no children.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg

16. Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken 8. Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken 17. Margarete of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein 4. Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken 18. William I, Landgrave of Lower Hesse 9. Elisabeth of Lower Hesse 19. Anna of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 2. Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg 20. William II, Landgrave of Hesse 10. Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse 21. Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 5. Anna of Hesse 22. George, Duke of Saxony 11. Christine of Saxony 23. Barbara Jagiellon, Princess of Poland 1. Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg 24. John II, Duke of Cleves 12. John III, Duke of Cleves 25. Mathilde of Hesse 6. William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg 26. William IV, Duke of Jülich-Berg 13. Maria of Jülich-Berg 27. Sibylle of Brandenburg 3. Anna of Jülich-Cleves-Berg 28. Philip I of Castile 14. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 29. Joanna of Castile 7. Archduchess Maria of Austria 30. Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary 15. Anne of Bohemia and Hungary 31. Anna of Foix-Candale

External links

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