Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
| Alexander of Zweibrücken | |
|---|---|
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| Born | 26 November 1462 |
| Died | 21 October 1514 (aged 51) Zweibrücken |
| Noble family | House of Wittelsbach |
| Spouse | Margarete of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein |
| Issue Detail |
Louis II Rupert |
| Father | Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken |
| Mother | Johanna 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) 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
- 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
- Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 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.