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1 Overview
2 List of Counts Palatine of Zweibrücken
- 2.1 House of Walramids
- 2.2 House of Wittelsbach
3 See also

Pfalz-Zweibrücken
County Palatine of Zweibrücken
State of the Holy Roman Empire
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1182 – 1801

Coat of arms

Capital Zweibrücken
Language(s) German
Religion Roman Catholicism;
Calvinism, from 1559
Government Monarchy
Historical era Middle Ages
- Divided from the
County of Saarbrücken
1182
- Annexed by France 1801

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

Overview

The first mention of Zweibrücken can be dated to 1170^{[citation needed]}. The County of Zweibrücken was created in 1182, as a division of the County of Saarbrücken. After the death of Eberhard, the last Count of Zweibrücken from the Saarbrücken line, the County fell to the Elector Palatine Rupert II of Wittelsbach.

Palatinate-Zweibrücken became a separate entity again in 1444 when Stefan, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken divided his territory between his sons. Louis I received the now-Duchy 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.