On the Life and Missions of Jacobus Andreae for the Reformation of the Lutheran Church, Part I

difficulties and considerations. For when the father, Count Ludovicus of Oetingen, as well as his son Ludovicus, had joined the Protestant side in the Schmalkaldic War, opposing Charles V, the victorious Charles was angry at the son and punished him by taking away half the County, which he adjudicated to the brothers of the younger Ludovicus, Fridericus and Wolfgangus, y) because they still professed the Papal religion. Among these, Fridericus showed himself to be most impious toward his pious parents. For when the father and mother of Fridericus wandered everywhere as fugitives, until they were finally barely received at Calw by Duke Ulricus, Fridericus reproached his mother, who was depressed and disturbed on every side, for the change in sacred rites, saying that it was the cause of her wandering stripped of all her faculties; he told her to renounce the new rites, and thus she would best provide for her indigence and reputation. Indeed, driven by a certain fury, he ordered a subject of his to be beheaded because he had given the father shelter for the night. When reconciliation with the Emperor was made, and the younger Ludovicus had succeeded his father and had entered into that part of the inheritance which was due him by the Emperor’s judgment, he had great familiarity with Jacobus of Gœppingen among the rest of his brothers, Carolus, Wilhelmus, and the eldest, Otto; he invited him several times to Wallerstein to discuss the purification of sacred matters with him. But so that all that activity would not be at his own sole risk, and so that he might have more Princes as assistants in the counsel, he summoned Bartholomæus Wolfartus, Superintendent of Neuburg, from the Upper Palatinate, which Otto Henricus, the Elector Palatine, governed; from the Margraviate of Brandenburg-

y) Sleidanus Book XIX narrates this case thus, p. 590, ed. Argentor. Rihelii. "For now he punished (the son) in such a way that he had utterly attributed all his possessions to the other sons, whose loyalty and zeal toward him he approved, Fridericus and Wolfgangus: thus he came to Strasbourg as a fugitive with his wife and other children and stripped of all fortune, and then wandered about for many years, until, with the passing of time, the Emperor pardoned them."