Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

FatherLouis I, Count Palatine of ZweibrückenMotherJohanna of Croÿ

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 [de]) 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.^[1] Its crypt is the burial place of numerous counts/dukes of his house's line.^[1]

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:

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

Ancestors

Ancestors of Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

16. Rupert II, Elector Palatine

8. Rupert of Germany

17. Beatrice of Sicily (1326–1365)

4. Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken

18. Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg

9. Elisabeth of Nuremberg

19. Elisabeth of Meissen

2. Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

20. Henry III of Veldenz

10. Frederick III, Count of Veldenz

21. Loretta of Sponheim-Starkenburg

5. Anna of Veldenz

22. John I, Count of Nassau-Weilburg

11. Margaret of Nassau-Saarbrücken

23. Joanna of Saarbrücken

1. Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

24. Guillaume de Croÿ

12. Jean I de Croÿ

25. Isabeau de Renty

6. Antoine I de Croÿ

26. John I of Craon

13. Marie de Craon

27. Marie de Châtillon-sur-Marne

3. Johanna of Croÿ

28. Frederick of Lorraine, Count of Vaudémont

14. Antoine, Count of Vaudémont

29. Margaret of Joinville

7. Margaret of Lorraine-Vaudémont

30. John VII of Harcourt

15. Marie, Countess of Harcourt

31. Marie of Alençon

References

^ ^a ^b Hudlet, Richard B. (1993). 500 Jahre Alexanderskirche Zweibrücken, 1493-1993 : Betrachtungen zur Geschichte einer Kirche und einer Stadt [500 years of Alexander's Church Zweibrücken, 1493-1993: Reflections on the history of a church and a city] (in German). Zweibrücken: Protestantische Kirchengemeinde Zweibrücken-Mitte [Protestant parish of Zweibrücken-Mitte]. ISBN 9783924171186. OCLC 34658300.

External links

Die Genealogie der Wittelsbacher

Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken House of Wittelsbach Born: 26 November 1462 Died: 21 October 1514
Preceded by Louis I	Duke of Zweibrücken 1489–1514	Succeeded by Louis II
	Count of Veldenz 1489–1514