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	(1578-11-04)4 November 1578 Neuburg an der Donau
Died	14 September 1653(1653-09-14) (aged 74) Düsseldorf
Spouse	Magdalene of Bavaria Catharina Elisabeth Charlotte of Palatinate-Zweibrücken [de] Maria Franziska of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg [de]
Issue	Philip William Ferdinand Philip Eleonore Franziska
House	Wittelsbach
Father	Philip Louis, Count Palatine of Neuburg
Mother	Anna of Jülich-Cleves-Berg
Religion	Lutheranism (until 1613) Roman Catholicism (from 1613)

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.

Life[edit]

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[edit]

Wolfgang Wilhelm 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 [de], 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 [de], daughter of Egon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg, they had no children.

Ancestry[edit]

External links[edit]

• Media related to Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of Neuburg at Wikimedia Commons
• 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). Vol. 21. Nordhausen: Bautz. cols. 1163–1168. ISBN 3-88309-110-3.