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Leopold Louis (German: Leopold Ludwig) (1 February 1625 – 29 September 1694) was the Count of Veldenz from 1634 until 1694. Lothar K. Kinzinger: Schweden und Pfalz-Zweibrücken, Dissertation, Zweibrücken 1988, S. 308–317. ISBN 3-924171-02-5
Life
Leopold Louis was born inLauterecken
Lauterecken () is a town in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wolfstein, to which it also belongs. Lauterecken bears the nickname ''Veldenzstadt'', after the comital family t ...
in 1625 as the youngest son of George Gustavus, Count Palatine of Veldenz
George Gustavus (German: Georg Gustav) (6 February 1564 – 3 June 1634) was the Count of Veldenz from 1592 until 1634.
Biography
George Gustavus was born in 1564 as the eldest son of George John I, Count Palatine of Lützelstein. His father die ...
, from his second marriage to Maria Elizabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrücken (7 November 1581 – 18 August 1637), daughter of Duke John I John I may refer to:
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* John I (bishop of Jerusalem)
* John Chrysostom (349 – c. 407), Patriarch of Constantinople
* John of Antioch (died 441)
* Pope John I, Pope from 523 to 526
* John I (exarch) (died 615), Exarch of Ravenna
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After his father's death in 1634 he succeeded him as his elder brothers had already died. During the Thirty Years' War
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his lands were occupied, and again during the Nine Years' War
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by Swedish
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, Spanish
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and later French soldiers. Leopold Louis died in Strasbourg
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in 1694 as a poor man and was buried in Lützelstein (now called La Petite-Pierre
La Petite-Pierre (; german: Lützelstein; Rhine Franconian: ''Lítzelstain'') is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in north-eastern France. It lies in the historical and cultural region of Alsace (Elsass in German). Petit-Pierre ...
, in France). As he had no surviving sons, the ruins of Veldenz were inherited by the Palatinate-Kleeburg
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line, the head of which was Charles XI, king of Sweden, in conflict with the nearer Electorate of Palatinate
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Marriage
Leopold Louis married Agathe Christine, the youngest daughter of Count Philip Wolfgang of Hanau-Lichtenberg, on 4 Jul 1648 and had the following children: #''unnamed daughter'' (1649) # Anne Sophie (20 May 1650 – 12 June 1706) # Gustav Philip (17 July 1651 – 24 August 1679) # Elisabeth Johanna (22 February 1653 – 5 February 1718) #Christine (29 March 1654 – 18 February 1655) #Christine Louise (11 November 1655 – 14 April 1656) #Christian Louis (5 October 1656 – 15 April 1658) #Dorothea
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* Dorothea Binz (1920–1947), German concentration camp officer executed for war cri ...
(16 January 1658 – 17 August 1723)
#Leopold Louis (14 March 1659 – 17 March 1660)
#Charles George
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(27 May 1660 – 3 July 1686)
#Agatha Eleanore (29 June 1662 – 1 January 1664)
# Augustus Leopold (22 December 1663 – 9 September 1689)References