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Palatinate-Zweibrücken

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Pfalz-Zweibrücken
County Palatine of Zweibrücken

State of the Holy Roman Empire
County Palatine of Zweibrücken
 
County of Veldenz
1444–1801



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

See also