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Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

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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.

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Alexanderskirche, built starting in 1493 by Alexander

Life

He was the son of Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife Johanna of Croÿ.

Alexander's Church (Alexanderskirche [de]) 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:

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

Ancestors

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References

  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.
Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
Born: 26 November 1462 Died: 21 October 1514
Preceded by Duke of Zweibrücken
14891514
Succeeded by
Count of Veldenz
14891514

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