War of the Jülich Succession
European history
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place in German history
- In Germany: Religion and politics, 1555–1618
…out in 1609–10 over the Jülich-Cleves succession crisis. When the Roman Catholic ruler of these counties, which formed the strategically most important block of territories on the lower Rhine, died without an heir, two Protestant claimants occupied his lands, aided not only by the German Protestant Union but also by…
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