John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken


John I of Zweibrücken was Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken during 1569–1604.
He was born in Meisenheim as the second son of Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife Anna of Hesse. In 1588 he changed the state religion from Lutheranism to Calvinism. He died in Germersheim in 1604 and was buried in the Alexanderkirche in Zweibrücken.

Family and children

He married in 1579 Duchess Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, daughter of William "the Rich", Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, and they had the following children:
  1. Ludwig Wilhelm
  2. Maria Elisabeth, married in 1601 to George Gustavus, Count Palatine of Veldenz
  3. Anna Magdalena, born and died in 1583
  4. John II of Zweibrücken-Veldenz
  5. Frederick Casimir of Zweibrücken-Landsberg
  6. John Casimir of Kleeburg , father of Charles X Gustav of Sweden.
  7. Amalia Jakobäa Henriette, married 1638 to Count Jakob Franz of Pestacalda
  8. Elisabeth Dorothea, died young in 1593
  9. Anna Katharina, born and died in 1597
He died in Germersheim.

Ancestry