Georges Ier of Wurtemberg

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Georges Ier of Wurtemberg (1498 - 1558) is a count de Montbéliard.

He is resulting from the second marriage of his father, Henri of Wurtemberg, and Eve, girl of Jean IV count de Salm.

He resides twice at Montbeliard as a sovereign. The first time, of 1526 with 1542, during the reign of his/her half-brother Ulrich VI of Wurtemberg (it is the latter which introduces the Réforme into the county). Then by a treaty of 1553, its nephew, the duke Christophe of Wurtemberg, then count de Montbéliard, yields the county and all its dependences to him. It again comes to be established with the castle of Montbeliard.

The count Georges consolidates the Reform by calling in 1535 the Pasteur Pierre Toussain as superintendent of the French church (one called the French church, that of Saint Martin's day where the people was accommodated, in opposition to the German church of Saint-Maimbœuf to the castle, reserved for the princely family and the court).

Pasteur Toussain opens schools for the instructions of young people. By the ecclesiastical ordinance of 1559, mainstream education is promulgated. It is strongly impresses of religion; it is interested in the “spiritual and temporal good” of youth. The school is thus at the same time an instrument of Alphabétisation and evangelization, in the direction where it has the aim of inserting the new religion in the spirits and to learn to the children the French, the liturgical language, both ignored in the campaigns where only the patois is spoken.

In France, it is the time of the great religious conflicts between catholic and Protestant, whereas in Montbeliard Catholicism practically disappeared (after briefly being reintroduced and being imposed by Charles Quint). This time, in fact the theological conflicts appear between the followers of Calvin, whose orthodoxy is widespread on the one hand in France and Suisse, and on the other hand the partisans of Luther whose religion is imposed by the Germanic princes . Finally, the Luthéranisme will be essential on Montbeliard, not without difficulties.

The count Georges Ier Marie tardily, at the age of fifty-seven years, with Barb, girl of Philippe I {{er}} of Hesse says Magnanime. He dies in Deux-Ponts (the Rhineland-Palatinat, Germany). He leaves like only heir, his son Frederic Ier of Wurtemberg (duke) which will become later count de Montbéliard and duke of Wurtemberg.

Georges Ier of Wurtemberg belonged to the first branch known as connects elder House of Wurtemberg.

Sources

D. Seigneur, the Novel of a Principality , Cêtre editions, Besancon.

See too

List of the counts de Montbéliard

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