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Eberhard I, stained-glass window from the studio of Peter Hemmel von Andlau, 1477; in the collegiate church at Tübingen, Ger.
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Byname:
Bearded Eberhard
German:
Eberhard Im Bart
Born:
Dec. 11, 1445, Urach, Ger.
Died:
Feb. 24, 1496, Tübingen (aged 50)
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Eberhard I, stained-glass window from the studio of Peter Hemmel von Andlau, 1477; in the collegiate church at Tübingen, Ger.
Eberhard I, stained-glass window from the studio of Peter Hemmel von Andlau, 1477; in the collegiate church at Tübingen, Ger.

Eberhard I

duke of Württemberg
Also known as: Bearded Eberhard, Eberhard im Bart
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Eberhard I (born Dec. 11, 1445, Urach, Ger.—died Feb. 24, 1496, Tübingen) was a count, later the 1st duke of Württemberg (from 1495), an administrative and ecclesiastic reformer who laid the foundations for Württemberg’s role in German history.

Eberhard expanded his territories and in 1482 established primogeniture and settled the succession to his holdings. The towns of Stuttgart and Tübingen received charters, and Eberhard reformed convents and monasteries. Interested in Renaissance learning as a result of his travels to the Holy Land and Italy and of his having an Italian wife, he founded the University of Tübingen (1477). He was a leading member of the pro-Habsburg Swabian League and was created duke at the Diet (Reichstag) of Worms (1495), where the emperor Maximilian I recognized his rulings on primogeniture and territorial indivisibility.

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