Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken


Alexander of Zweibrücken was Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken and of Veldenz in 1489–1514.
He was the son of Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife Johanna of Croÿ. Alexander promised to establish a church after the successful return from a crusade, and it was kept in 1489 with the building of the Alexanderskirche in Zweibrücken.

Family and children

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, a nun in Trier.
  2. Louis II.
  3. George, a canon in Trier, Strassburg and Cologne.
  4. Margarete, a nun at Marienberg bei Boppard.
  5. Rupert.
  6. Katharina, married before 1 February 1541 to Count Otto IV of Rietberg.

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