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Christoph, Duke of Württemberg

Type Figure Region Holy Roman Empire Time 1515–1568 Also known as Christoph I、Duke Christoph of Württemberg

Duke of Württemberg (1550–1568), an important Protestant prince in southern Germany during the Reformation.…

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  1. 1515–1534Baden · BadenBorn in Baden, he went into exile in childhood when his family's territory was occupied by the Austrian Habsburgs; he grew up in a Lutheran environment and returned to Württemberg in 1534 following Schmalkaldic League military operations.
  2. 1550–1555Stuttgart · WürttembergAfter his brother Ulrich died in 1550 he succeeded and carried out the Reformation throughout his territory, established a Lutheran church system, and moved the court to Stuttgart, becoming a major force among southern German Protestant princes.
  3. 1551–1568Augsburg · BavariaIn the 1550s he allied with Philip of Hesse and Maurice of Saxony and took part in imperial religious peace negotiations; after the Peace of Augsburg he consolidated the Protestant order in his territory and promoted education and state institution-building until his death in 1568.

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