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Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

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Spouse(s)
  
Elisabeth of Hesse

Name
  
Louis Count


Father
  
Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrucken

Mother
  
Margarete of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein

Born
  
14 September 1502 Zweibrucken (
1502-09-14
)

Died
  
3 December 1532(1532-12-03) (aged 30) Zweibrucken

Buried
  
Alexanderskirche in Zweibrucken

Noble family
  
House of Wittelsbach

Louis II of Zweibrücken (German: Pfalzgraf Ludwig II. von Zweibrücken-Neuburg "der Jüngere") (14 September 1502 – 3 December 1532) was Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken from 1514 to 1532.

He was the son of Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife Margarete of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein. He was married in 1525 to Elisabeth of Hesse, daughter of William I, Landgrave of Lower Hesse, and they had two children. His son Wolfgang inherited the title and his daughter Christine died young in 1534. Louis II was buried in the Alexanderskirche in Zweibrücken.

References

Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken Wikipedia