Alexander of Zweibrücken () (26 November 1462 – 21 October 1514) was
Count Palatine
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, Duke of
Zweibrücken
Zweibrücken (; ; , ; literally translated as "Two Bridges") is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach (Blies), Schwarzbach River.
Name
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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 (') 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
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.
Its
crypt
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is the burial place of numerous counts/dukes
of his house's line.
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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
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.
# Louis II (1502–1532).
# George (1503–1537).
# Margarete (1509–1522), a nun at Marienberg bei Boppard.
# Rupert, a canon in Trier, Strassburg
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and Cologne
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, then count Palatine of Veldenz (1506–1544).
# Katharina (1510–1542), married before 1 February 1541 to Count Otto IV of Rietberg.
Ancestors
References
External links
Die Genealogie der Wittelsbacher
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House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken
Wittelsbach, Alexander of Pfalz-Zweibrucken
Counts Palatine of Zweibrücken
Burials at the Alexanderkirche, Zweibrücken