Ernst Weyden was a scholar and member of the Faculty at the University of Cologne.
Ernst Weyden
The Cologne War was a conflict between Protestant and Catholic factions that devastated the Electorate of Cologne, a historical ecclesiastical principality of the Holy Roman Empire, within present-day
Destruction of Godesburg fortress during the Cologne War, 1583
Negotiating the Peace of Augsburg
Agnes von Mansfeld-Eisleben
Gebhard von Waldburg-Trauchburg, whose conversion to Protestantism, subsequent marriage, and refusal to resign from the See triggered the war