War of the Jülich Succession
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Was a war of succession in the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg between Brandenburg and the Palatinate.
Chronology
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May 1609: The commander of the Jülich fortress, Colonel Johann von Reuschenberg zu Overbach, did not recognize Ernst and Wolfgang Wilhelm and installed an imperial government in his fortress.
May 1609: Forces of Neuburg-Palatinate occupied Jülich and Berg.
May 1609: When Johann Wilhelm died, both Brandenburg and Palatinate-Neuburg began to take control of individual places in the Principality.
September 1610: Siege of Jülich.
January 1631: The County Ravenstein came to the Catholic Duchy of Palatinate-Neuburg in 1630.
January 1637: After the troops of the Generalitatland had previously left Ravenstein, they returned in 1635 and occupied the dominion again.
January 1672: Brandenburg-Prussia renounced its claim in 1671, and when a French army approached in 1672 during France's war with the United Netherlands, the troops of the Generalitatland finally withdrew from the Ravenstein dominion, after which the fortress was razed, of which only the City gates and the castle were spared.
July 1651: Brandenburg troops invaded Berg.
Was a treaty between Palatinate-Neuburg and Brandenburg that officially paritioned the Duchy of Jülich-Cleves-Mark and ended the War of the Jülich Succession.
September 1666: In 1666 the Treaty of Kleve was ratified, which significantly reduced the conflict between Pfalz-Neuburg and Brandenburg. With this settlement, the Duchy of Kleve and the counties of Mark and Ravensberg fell to the Elector of Brandenburg, Friedrich Wilhelm. The Count Palatine Philipp Wilhelm received the duchies of Jülich and Berg as well as the small Flemish dominions of Wijnendale west of Ghent and Breskesand on the extreme southwestern Scheldt island.
