The Council of Cannstatt, also referred to as the blood court at Cannstatt (Blutgericht zu Cannstatt), is a council meeting at Cannstatt in 746 that takes place as a result of an invitation by the Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia, Carloman, the eldest son of Charles Martel, to all nobles of the Alemanni.

According to the annals of Metz, the annales Petaviani and an account by Childebrand, Carloman arrested several thousand noblemen attendees, accusing them of taking part in the uprising of Theudebald, Duke of Alamannia, and Odilo, Duke of Bavaria, and summarily executed them all for high treason.

The action eliminates virtually the entire tribal leadership of the Alemanni and ends the independence of the duchy of Alamannia, after which it is ruled by Frankish dukes.

Liudolf’s son by Ida, Otto, will later be named duke of Bavaria and Swabia, his daughter Mathilde abbess of a canoness monastery in Essen.

Liudolf around 950 also founded the city of Stuttgart in southern Germany.

The town is used for breeding cavalry horses in fertile meadows at the very center of today's city, although recent archaeological excavations indicate that this area was already home to Merovingian farmers.

Stuttgart, situated in the the Neckar River valley in the southwest corner of Germany, derives its name from its origins as a tenth-century stud farm (German: Stuotgarten) that expanded and became the property of the Wurttemberg family in the early thirteenth century.

The principal residence of the counts of Wurttemberg from the fourteenth century, Stuttgart in 1482 becomes the capital of Wurttemberg.

Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg, had served the German king, Maximilian I, in the war over the succession to the duchy of Bavaria-Landshut in 1504, receiving some additions to Württemberg as a reward; he had accompanied Maximilian on his unfinished journey to Rome in 1508; and he had marched with the imperial army into France in 1513.

Ulrich had meanwhile become very unpopular in Württemberg.

His extravagance had led to a large accumulation of debt, and his subjects are irritated by his oppressive methods of raising money.

An uprising under the name of Poor Conrad had broken out in 1514 and had been suppressed only after Ulrich had made important concessions to the estates in return for financial aid.

The duke's relations with the Swabian League, moreover, are very bad, and trouble soon comes from another quarter also.

Ulrich in 151l had married Sabina, a daughter of Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, and niece of the emperor Maximilian.

The marriage is a very unhappy one, and the duke, having formed an affection for the wife of a knight named Hans von Hutten, a kinsman of Ulrich von Hutten, had killed Hans in 1515 during an altercation.

Hutten's friends now joined the other elements of discontent.

Sabina, fleeing from her husband, had won the support of the emperor and of her brother William IV, Duke of Bavaria, and Ulrich has twice been placed under the imperial ban.

Duke Ulrich had passed some time in Switzerland, France and Germany, occupied with brigand exploits and in service under Francis I of France; but he has never lost sight of the possibility of recovering Württemberg and about 1523 he had announced his conversion to the reformed faith.

His opportunity comes with the outbreak of the German Peasants' War.

Posing as the friend of the lower orders and signing himself "Ulrich the peasant", his former oppressions are forgotten and his return is anticipated with joy.

Collecting men and money, mainly in France and Switzerland, he invades Württemberg in February 1525, but the Swiss in his service are recalled owing to the defeat of Francis I of France at Pavia; the peasantry are unable to give him any serious support, and in a few weeks he is again a fugitive.

...Württemberg (lands immediately to the north and east of Alsace), to make it incapable of sustaining the enemy.

Joseph Süß Oppenheimer is led to the gallows on February 4, 1738, and given a final chance to convert to Christianity, which he refuses to do.

Thereafter, he is hanged with his last words reportedly being "Hear, O Israel: the Lord is our God, the Lord is one".

His corpse is gibbeted in a human-sized bird cage that will hang outside of Stuttgart in the Pragsattel district for six years until the inauguration of Karl Eugen, Duke of Württemberg, who will permit the hasty burial of his corpse below the gallows.

As a financial advisor for Duke Karl Alexander, Duke of Württemberg, Oppenheimer had also gained a prominent position as a court Jew and had held the reins of the finances in his duchy.

He had established a duchy monopoly on the trade of salt, leather, tobacco, and liquor and founded a bank and porcelain factory.

In the process, he had gained a number of envious enemies who, among other things, claimed that he was involved with local gambling houses.

When his protector, Karl Alexander, suddenly died on March 12, 1737, Oppenheimer had been arrested and accused of various things, including fraud, embezzlement, treason, lecherous relations with the court ladies and accepting bribes.

The Jewish community had tried unsuccessfully to ransom him.

After a heavily publicized trial during which no proofs were produced, he had been sentenced to death.

When his jailers asked that he convert to Christianity, he had refused.

An overwhelming tide of pro-revolutionary sentiment sweeps through Germany by the "Recess of 1803", which brings to France's side Württemberg and ...

The German grand duchy of Baden, a French satellite since 1796, recognizes Judaism as a tolerated religion on May 14, 1807.

Although this represents an improvement in the rights of Baden's Jews, especially the Schutzjuden (protected Jews), full emancipation is withheld.

The University of Stuttgart, one of the first technical universities in Germany, is founded in 1829.