Palatinate-Zweibrücken

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Pfalz-Zweibrücken
County Palatine of Zweibrücken
State of the Holy Roman Empire
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Coat of arms

Capital Zweibrücken
Language(s) German
Religion Roman Catholicism;
Lutheranism, from 1532
Calvinism, from 1588
Government Principality
Historical era Middle Ages
 - Split from
    Pfalz-Simmern and Zweibrücken
    unified with County of Veldenz 1444
 - Annexed by France 1801

Palatinate-Zweibrücken (German: Pfalz-Zweibrücken) is a former state of the Holy Roman Empire. Its capital was Zweibrücken.

Overview

→ History before 1394 see main article County of Zweibrücken

→ History before 1444 see main article County of Veldenz

→ History before 1444 see main article Pfalz-Simmern and Zweibrücken

Palatinate-Zweibrücken became a separate principality in 1444 when Stefan, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken divided his territory Pfalz-Simmern and Zweibrücken between two sons. The younger son, Louis I, received the County of Zweibrücken and the County of Veldenz.

The Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken ceased to exist in 1801, when it was annexed by France. After the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, it was returned to the last Duke, King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, who joined it with other Bavarian territories on the left bank of the Rhine to form the Rhenish Palatinate.

List of Counts Palatine of Zweibrücken

House of Wittelsbach

• 1394–1398: Rupert II, in personal union with the Electoral Palatinate
• 1398–1410: Rupert III, in personal union with the Electoral Palatinate and (from 1400) with the Kingdom of Germany
• 1410–1459: Stefan
• 1459–1489: Louis I the Black
• 1489–1490: Caspar
• 1490–1514: Alexander the Lame
• 1514–1532: Louis II the Younger
• 1532–1569: Wolfgang
• 1569–1604: John I the Lame
• 1604–1635: John II the Younger
• 1635–1661: Frederick
• 1661–1681: Frederick Louis
• 1681–1697: Charles XI of Sweden, in personal union with the Kingdom of Sweden
• 1697–1718: Charles XII of Sweden, in personal union with the Kingdom of Sweden
• 1718–1731: Gustav Samuel Leopold
• 1731–1734: interregnum
• 1734–1735: Christian III
• 1735–1775: Christian IV
• 1775–1795: Charles II August
• 1795–1825: Maximilian I, in personal union with the Electorate of Bavaria

See also

• House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, the Royal House of Sweden from 1654 to 1720 .
• Palatinate