Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg

Frederick I
Frederick I
	Frederick I, Duke of Württemberg
Duke of Württemberg
Reign	28 August 1593 – 29 January 1608
Predecessor	Louis III
Successor	John Frederick
Born	19 August 1557; Mömpelgard, today's Montbéliard
Died	29 January 1608 (aged 50); Stuttgart
Spouse	Sibylla of Anhalt (m. 1581)
Issue; among others…	John Frederick, Duke of Württemberg; George Frederick; Sibylle Elisabeth, Duchess of Saxony; Elisabeth; Louis Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Montbéliard; Joachim Frederick; Julius Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Weiltingen; Philip Frederick; Eva Christina, Duchess of Jägerndorf; Frederick Achilles, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt; Agnes, Princess Francis Julius of Saxe-Lauenburg; Barbara, Margravine of Baden-Durlach; Magnus; August; Anna, Princess Ludwig Ulrich of Silesia-Jägerndorf;
House	Württemberg
Father	George I of Württemberg-Mömpelgard
Mother	Barbara of Hesse

Friedrich I of Württemberg (19 August 1557 – 29 January 1608) was the son of George of Mömpelgard and his wife Barbara of Hesse, daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.

Several references are made to him in Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, in which a series of anti-German jokes start with a horse theft, several references are made to German travellers in England and to a German duke who is not expected to come to Windsor.