Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

Alexander of Zweibrücken (German: Pfalzgraf Alexander von Zweibrücken "der Hinkende") (26 November 1462 – 21 October 1514) was Count Palatine, Duke of Zweibrücken and Count of Veldenz in 1489–1514.

Life

He was the son of Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife Johanna of Croÿ.

Alexander's Church (Alexanderskirche) is the oldest church in Zweibrücken, a late-Gothic Protestant hall church built from 1493 to 1514 as a gift from Alexander after his return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Its crypt is the burial place of numerous counts/dukes of his house's line.

Family

He was married in 1499 in Zweibrücken to Countess Margarete of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, daughter of Count Kraft VI of Hohenlohe and Helene of Württemberg. They had the following children:

1. Johanna (1499–1537), a nun in Trier.
2. Louis II (1502–1532).
3. George (1503–1537).
4. Margarete (1509–1522), a nun at Marienberg bei Boppard.
5. Rupert, a canon in Trier, Strassburg and Cologne, then count Palatine of Veldenz (1506–1544).
6. Katharina (1510–1542), married before 1 February 1541 to Count Otto IV of Rietberg.

Ancestors

References

External links

• Die Genealogie der Wittelsbacher

1. Palatine Zweibrücken
2. Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
3. Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
4. Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
5. Zweibrücken
6. Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
7. John Casimir, Count Palatine of Kleeburg
8. Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
9. Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler
10. Frederick Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg
11. House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken
12. Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg
13. John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
14. Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
15. Rupert, Count Palatine of Veldenz
16. Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
17. John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
18. House of Wittelsbach
19. Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach
20. Countess Palatine Barbara of Zweibrücken-Neuburg