Eberhard II, Duke of Württemberg

Eberhard II ( born 1 February 1447 in Waiblingen probably, † February 17, 1504 at Burglinde rock in the Odenwald) was as Eberhard VI. 1480-1496 Count of Württemberg- Stuttgart and as Eberhard II 1496 Duke of Württemberg.

Eberhard was the son of Count Ulrich V of Württemberg and Elisabeth of Bavaria- Landshut. He lived in his youth long at the Burgundian court. 1461 he took in Reims at the coronation of Louis XI. part of France. 1462 he returned to Württemberg, 1465-1467, he married the Countess Elisabeth of Brandenburg, a daughter of Margrave Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg. Already in 1477 he opened the house contract between the two parts of the follow- Württemberg in Württemberg- Urach. Württemberg- Urach was ruled by Count Eberhard the Bearded, who had remained without legitimate offspring.

On February 8, 1480 Eberhard took over the government by his father Ulrich. On December 14, 1482, he joined with Eberhard im Bart Münsinger the contract from, which broke down the division of the state, its governmental power to Eberhard gave the Bearded, it promised him his successor.

Eberhard VI. was therefore of 1482 until the death of Eberhard im Bart, formally, ruler, but in reality powerless. Eberhard VI. struggled against the disempowerment soon, but could not do anything against the older opponents. This limited right of succession in 1489 even be on the old Stuttgart part of the country. Nevertheless, we succeeded Eberhard VI. , After the death of Eberhard im Bart throughout Württemberg, which had been raised to a duchy in 1495, relatively smoothly take over as Duke Eberhard II the rule.

However, he was soon after difficulties with the elite of his country. This deposed him in close cooperation with the Habsburg King Maximilian I. He was then forced to flee to Ulm. As Eberhard found no support, he had to acknowledge on June 10, 1498 Horb arbitration Maximilian I.. He accepted so for an annual pension of 6000 florins his deposition and banishment. In its place now ruled with a royal legitimacy of States. This condition only ended when his early adulthood in 1503 his nephew Ulrich, the son of his brother Henry took over as Duke the government.

Eberhard was given shelter by the Elector Philipp of the Palatinate. In Palatine exile on the Burglinde rock in the Odenwald Eberhard died in 1504. He was buried in Heidelberg's Collegiate Church.