Duke Julius Siegmund of Württemberg-Juliusburg (18 August 1653 in

Oleśnica Oleśnica (pronounced ; german: Oels; szl, Ôleśnica) is a town in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland, within the Wrocław metropolitan area. It is the administrative seat of Oleśnica County and also of the rural district of ...

– 15 October 1684 in

Dobroszyce Dobroszyce (german: Juliusburg) is a village in Oleśnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) called Gmina Dobroszyce. It lies approximately north-west of Oleśnica, ...

) was

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of Württemberg-Juliusburg.

Life

Julius Siegmund was the fourth son of the Duke Silvius I Nimrod of Württemberg-Oels (1622–1664) from his marriage to

Elisabeth Marie, Duchess of Oels Elisabeth Marie of Oels (11 May 1625 – 17 March 1686) was the last member of the House of Poděbrady and a regent of the Duchy of Oels. Life Elizabeth Marie was the only child of Duke Charles Frederick I of Münsterberg-Oels (1593–1647) fr ...

(1625–1686) . After his father's death in 1664, his mother initially ruled the

Duchy of Oels The Duchy of Oels (german: Herzogtum Oels) or Duchy of Oleśnica ( pl, Księstwo Oleśnickie, la, Ducatus Olsnensis) was one of the duchies of Silesia with its capital in Oleśnica in Lower Silesia, Poland.Zofia Uszyńska, University of MichiganP ...

as regent for her four sons. The sons went on their

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and visited, among other countries, the Netherlands, where the eldest brother Charles Ferdinand died in 1669. In 1672, the elder brothers took up government and divided the country. Julius Siegmund, who was still under the regency of his mother, received

Międzybórz Międzybórz , also known as ''Międzybórz Sycowski'' (german: Neumittelwalde, until 1886 ''Medzibor''), is a town in Oleśnica County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland. It is the seat of the administrative district (gmina) c ...

. His older brother Silvius II Frederick received Oels and Christian Ulrich I received Bernstadt. In 1673, Elisabeth Marie stepped down as regent and Julius Siegmund began to rule himself. He chose the village of Dreske as his residence. He expanded the castle in the village to a

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residence. He name the castle and the village ''Juliusburg'', after himself. Julius Siegmund was a member of the

Fruitbearing Society The Fruitbearing Society (German Die Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft, lat. ''societas fructifera'') was a German literary society founded in 1617 in Weimar by German scholars and nobility. Its aim was to standardize vernacular German and promote it a ...

, under the nickname ''der Unverwelkte'' ("the unwithered one").

Marriage and issue

Julius Siegmund married on 4 April 1677 in

Grabow Grabow () is a town in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany. It is situated on the river Elde, 7 km (4.35 mi) southeast of Ludwigslust, and 34 km (21.12 mi) northwest of Wittenberge. It ...

with Anna Sophia (1647–1726), the daughter of the Adolf Frederick I of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. They had the following children: * Marie Sophie (1678–1681) * Leopold Frederick (1680–1681) *

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(1682–1745), Duke of Württemberg-Bernstadt : married in 1703 with Princess Wilhelmine Louise of Saxe-Meiningen (1686-1753)

References

Friedrich Schiller: ''Geschichte von Württemberg bis zum Jahr 1740'', p. 229Michael Morgenbesser and Karl Adolf Menzel: ''Geschichte Schlesiens'', p. 284 ff

External links

* Dukes of Silesia 17th-century dukes of Württemberg 1653 births 1684 deaths People from Oleśnica Sons of monarchs {{Germany-noble-stub