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    Wilhelm von Grumbach (1 June 1503 – 18 April 1567) was a German adventurer, chiefly known through his connection with the so-called "Grumbach Feud" (German:...
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    15, 1558, Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt, Prince-Bishop of Würzburg, was assassinated by the forces of Wilhelm von Grumbach. The cathedral chapter of...
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  • Landgrave of Hesse, for leading the Schmalkaldic League. 1566 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, for insurgency. 1621 - Frederick V, Elector Palatine, and his supporters...
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  • the Grumbach Feud], 4 Volumes (Jena: Verlag Frommann, 1869 and 1870) (in German) Johannes Voigt, “Wilhelm von Grumbach und seine Händel [William von Grumbach...
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  • Grumbach or von Grumbach is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Antoine Grumbach, French architect Argula von Grumbach (1492–1554?), Bavarian...
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    Grumbach Brawl (Grumbachsche Händel). By enforcing the imperial ban on his Ernestine rivals – John Frederick the Middle and outlawed knight, Wilhelm von...
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    Throughout his prelacy, Zobel von Giebelstadt was engaged in a feud with Wilhelm von Grumbach.[citation needed] About 1540 Grumbach became associated with Margrave...
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    criminal with glowing pincers, prior to quartering. The fate of Wilhelm von Grumbach in 1567, a maverick knight in the Holy Roman Empire who was fond...
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    and was robbed and killed by two servants of his brother-in-law Wilhelm von Grumbach in the night of June 9–10 in the forest near Rimpar. The Black Company...
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    Duchy of Würzburg Rimpar fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Wilhelm von Grumbach, knight and adventurer, was born in Rimpar on June 1, 1503. Placed...
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  • 1556 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet and politician (b. 1495) 1567 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503) 1587 – John Foxe, English historian...
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    next prince bishop, Meichior von Zobel (as well as Florian Geyer) on behalf of his employer Wilhelm von Grumbach. Grumbach's adventures including this incident...
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    Ernestine line. For this purpose he accepted an outlawed knight, Wilhelm von Grumbach, with himself, which led finally to the fact that also over his father...
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    Argula von Grumbach (née von Stauff; 1492 – c. 1554) was a Bavarian writer and noblewoman who, starting in the early 1520s, became involved in the Protestant...
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    was contacted in Würzburg by two servants of his brother-in-law Wilhelm von Grumbach, who had stated their intention of helping him rekindle the Peasants'...
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    plans were interrupted. She was aided by Peder Oxe, the adventurer Wilhelm von Grumbach and his allies, who attempted to dethrone her second cousin king...
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    Friedrich von Salm-Grumbach (5 November 1743 - 11 September 1819) was a member of the noble family of Wild and Rhinegrave from the line of Salm-Grumbach. In...
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    electoral privilege that had been revoked from his father. When his ally Wilhelm von Grumbach was placed under an imperial ban, John Frederick refused to act against...
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    daughter of Wilhelm Carl Ludwig, Count of Solms-Rödelheim and Assenheim (1699–1778), by his wife, Countess Maria Margareta Leopolda von Wurmbrand-Stuppach...
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    Vater war Karl Ludwig Wilhelm Theodor zu Salm, Wild- und Rheingraf zu Salm-Grumbach und Dhaun (1729–1799), vgl. Christoph Graf von Polier's Family Tree:...
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    lost due to his father's imprisonment. In 1563 his prized general, Wilhelm von Grumbach attacked Würzburg, seized and plundered the city and compelled the...
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    1995, p. 75. Footman 1969, p. 181-182. Kennedy 1995, p. 78. Grumbach, Detlef (1995). Grumbach, Detlef (ed.). Die Linke und das Laster. Hamburg: Männerschwarm...
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    – Ernest III, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (b. 1518) April 18 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (b. 1503) April 19 – Michael Stifel, German mathematician...
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  • it: one is to hit Grumbach's king, one to hit his lover, and the last to hit Grumbach himself. The curse comes true when Grumbach uses the first bullet...
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    May 1 – Celio Secondo Curione, Italian humanist (d. 1569) June 1 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (d. 1567) June 28 – Giovanni della Casa, Italian...
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    recover his rightful position. Associated with Flacius was a knight, Wilhelm von Grumbach, who, not satisfied with words only, made inroads into the Electorate...
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    in the course of the 1566 revolt instigated by the robber baron Wilhelm von Grumbach, the duke was banned and imprisoned for life by Emperor Maximilian II...
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    Grumbach is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate...
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    May 1 – Celio Secondo Curione, Italian humanist (d. 1569) June 1 – Wilhelm von Grumbach, German adventurer (d. 1567) June 28 – Giovanni della Casa, Italian...
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    November 1641 Juliana (1616–1647), daughter of Johann, Wild- und Rheingraf in Grumbach und Rheingrafenstein. They divorced on 18 November 1642 because on 14 February...
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