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Wolfgang, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen
Wolfgang was Prince of Anhalt-Köthen and one of the first German princes to adopt the Reformation. In 1530 he signed the Augsburg Confession, and he joined the Protestant Schmalkaldic League. After the league's defeat at Mühlberg in 1547 Emperor Charles V placed him under the imperial ban and took his lands, but he recovered them in 1552. Childless, he later handed his principality to his relatives.
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