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Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrucken

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Mother
  
Johanna of Croy

Name
  
Alexander, Palatine


Spouse(s)
  
Margarete of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein

Father
  
Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrucken

Born
  
26 November 1462 (
1462-11-26
)

Died
  
21 October 1514(1514-10-21) (aged 51)Zweibrucken

Noble family
  
House of Wittelsbach

Alexander of Zweibrücken (German: Pfalzgraf Alexander von Zweibrücken "der Hinkende") (26 November 1462 – 21 October 1514) was Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken and of Veldenz in 1489–1514.

He was the son of Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife Johanna of Croÿ. Alexander promised to establish a church after the successful return from a crusade, and it was kept in 1489 with the building of the Alexanderskirche in Zweibrücken.

Family and children

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:

  1. Johanna (1499–1537), a nun in Trier.
  2. Louis II (1502–1532).
  3. George (1503–1537), a canon in Trier, Strassburg and Cologne.
  4. Margarete (1509–1522), a nun at Marienberg bei Boppard.
  5. Rupert (1506–1544).
  6. Katharina (1510–1542), married before 1 February 1541 to Count Otto IV of Rietberg.

References

Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken Wikipedia
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