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Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Meisenheim
Death
12 August 1604 (aged 54 years)
People who died on this day
Place of death
Germersheim
Age
54 years
Family
Mother:
Anna of Hesse
Father:
Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
Siblings:
Philip Louis
Count Palatine of Neuburg
Charles I
Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
Otto Henry
Count Palatine of Sulzbach
Frederick
Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Vohenstrauss-Parkstein
Spouse:
Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg
Children:
John Casimir
Count Palatine of Kleeburg
Frederick Casimir
Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg
John II
Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
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Biography
John I of Zweibrücken German: Pfalzgraf Johann I von Zweibrücken (8 May 1550 – 12 August 1604) 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:
- Ludwig Wilhelm (28 November 1580 – 26 March 1581)
- Maria Elisabeth (7 November 1581 – 18 August 1637), married in 1601 to George Gustavus, Count Palatine of Veldenz
- Anna Magdalena, born and died in 1583
- John II of Zweibrücken-Veldenz (26 March 1584 – 9 August 1635)
- Frederick Casimir of Zweibrücken-Landsberg (10 June 1585 – 30 September 1645)
- John Casimir of Kleeburg (20 April 1589 – 18 June 1652), father of Charles X Gustav of Sweden.
- Amalia Jakobäa Henriette (26 September 1592 – 18 May 1655), married 1638 to Count Jakob Franz of Pestacalda
- Elisabeth Dorothea, died young in 1593
- Anna Katharina, born and died in 1597
He died in Germersheim.
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John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken House of Wittelsbach Born: 8 May 1550 Died: 12 August 1604 | ||
| Preceded by Wolfgang | Duke of Zweibrücken 1569–1604 | Succeeded by John II in Veldenz |
| Succeeded by Frederick Casimir in Landsberg | ||
| Succeeded by John Casimir in Kleeburg | ||
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