how legal actions can end action brought before the Württemberg government was a lost cause. Shortly thereafter, they revoked the action. Also in the main proceedings initiated by Count Gabriel von Ortenburg in 1535 against Duke Ulrich von Württemberg, the defence of lack of jurisdiction resulted in a prompt withdrawal of the action. Von Ortenburg asserted claims for several dominions (including L’Isle-sur-le Doubs). However, the authority having jurisdiction over this dominion situated in the Free County of Burgundy was the parliament in Dôle.24 After Duke Ulrich had therefore asserted the defence of lack of jurisdiction, and von Ortenburg had no substantiated response thereto, the claimant revoked this motion of the action, pointing out that it had been erroneously included in the summons and that so far no fortification had taken place.25 The huntsman of the Count of Burghaßlach, Castell-Rüdenhausen, Andreas Rübmann, claimed the reimbursement of 300 imperial talers recruiting money including interest and the payment of damages in the amount of 2,000 imperial talers, by suing Count Johann Friedrich von Hohenlohe before the Imperial Chamber Court. Rübmann had served the defendant as a hunting lackey, when in 1732 he was sold off to the Prussian recruiting officer von Heyden against his will.26 Count Johann had “to date kept” (bis dato behalten) the money received from von Heyden.27 Rübmann had to enter the Grävenitz infantry regiment in Magdeburg as a “musketeer” (Musquetier), being “violently carried away in a chaise by armed men” (Gewalttätig armata manu in einer chaise fortgeführet). During the following 12 years of service he participated in various campaigns in Silesia, Moravia and Bohemia, and suffered an “incurable bodily injury” (incurablen Leibes-Schaden), in particular a paralysed arm. His disability led to his “honourable discharge” (seinen ehrlichen Abschied),28 his dismissal, in 1744.29 24 HStAStuttgart, C3, fascicle no. 3261, [Q] 11. 25 HStAStuttgart, C3, fascicle no. 3261, [Q] 12. 26 HStAStuttgart, C3, fascicle no. 3635, Citation of 07 May 1751, without [Q]. 27 HStAStuttgart, C3, fascicle no. 3635, letter of April 1751, fol. 1V, without [Q]. 28 Ibid. 84 Citations
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