Frederick Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg

Friedrich Wilhelm of Neuburg (20 July 1665 – 23 July 1689) was a Count Palatine of Neuburg by birth and Imperial General in later life.

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Life

Born in Düsseldorf, he was the tenth child and seventh son of Philip William, Elector Palatine and Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt.

Initially destined to the Church, in 1677 he was appointed Coadjutor and in 1685 Canon in Konstanz.^[1] Also, he studied at the Heidelberg University, where he was Rector in 1685.

Later, Frederick Wilhelm abandoned the church career and entered the Imperial army, where he obtained the rank of General. He fell in the Nine Years' War during the Siege of Mainz (1689), where, during a visit in the trenches, an arquebus shot to the head killed him instantly.^[2] He was buried in St. Andrew's Church, Düsseldorf.

Notes

[1]
Michael Masson, Das Königshaus Bayern: genealogisch bearbeitet und mit historisch-biographischen Notizen erläutert, Verl. des Hrsg., 1854, p. 139
[2]
Johann Heinrich Hennes, Die Belagerung von Mainz im Jahr 1689, Editions Victor von Zabern, 1864, p. 29

References

Gustav Prümm, Ein Gewinn fürs ganze Leben, Books on Demand, 2009, p. 120
Johann Samuel Ersch, Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste, J. f. Gleditsch, 1847, p. 23 on-line