Louis II of Zweibrücken () (14 September 1502 – 3 December 1532) was
Count Palatine
A count palatine (Latin ''comes palatinus''), also count of the palace or palsgrave (from German ''Pfalzgraf''), was originally an official attached to a royal or imperial palace or household and later a nobleman of a rank above that of an or ...
and Duke of
Zweibrücken
Zweibrücken (; ; , ; literally translated as "Two Bridges") is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach (Blies), Schwarzbach River.
Name
The name ''Zweibrücken'' means 'two bridges'; older forms of the name include Middl ...
from 1514 to 1532.
Early life
He was the son of
Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
Alexander of Zweibrücken () (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.
A ...
(1462–1514) and his wife Countess Margarete of
Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (1480–1522).
Marriage and issue
He was married in 1525 to
Elisabeth of Hesse, daughter of
William I, Landgrave of Lower Hesse
William I of Hesse () (4 July 1466 – 8 February 1515) was the Landgrave of Hesse ( Lower Hesse) from 1471 to 1493.
His parents were Louis the Frank (1438–1471) and Mechthild, daughter of Count Louis I of Württemberg. On 17 February 1488 i ...
, and they had two children. His son
Wolfgang inherited the title and his daughter Christine died young in 1534.
Death
Louis II died on 3 December 1532 and was buried in the
crypt
A crypt (from Greek κρύπτη (kryptē) ''wikt:crypta#Latin, crypta'' "Burial vault (tomb), vault") is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. It typically contains coffins, Sarcophagus, sarcophagi, or Relic, religiou ...
of
Alexanderskirche (a church named for his father, who funded the original construction) in
Zweibrücken
Zweibrücken (; ; , ; literally translated as "Two Bridges") is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach (Blies), Schwarzbach River.
Name
The name ''Zweibrücken'' means 'two bridges'; older forms of the name include Middl ...
.
Ancestors
References
External links
Die Genealogie der Wittelsbacher
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Counts Palatine of Zweibrücken
1502 births
1532 deaths
House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken
Burials at the Alexanderkirche, Zweibrücken
