Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
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Wolfgang of Zweibrücken (German: Pfalzgraf Wolfgang von Zweibrücken) (26 September 1526 – 11 June 1569), was member of the familiy of theCounts of Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken in 1532-1559.
He was the only son of Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife Elisabeth of Hesse, daughter of William I, Landgrave of Hesse. His father died in 1532, so the regency of Palatinate-Zweibrücken passed to Louis' younger brother Rupert until 1543. In 1557 Wolfgang received the territory of Palatinate-Neuburg in accordance with the Contract of Heidelberg. In 1548 the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V invaded his Protestant territories as part of the Counter-Reformation, an invasion ceased in 1552. In 1555 the Peace of Augsburg was signed ending the religious conflict, and in 1557 several ecclesiastical states in Germany were secularised, a few of which Wolfgang obtained. In 1566 he served as a cavalry officer in the Turkish Wars.
In 1569 he came to the aid of French Huguenots with 14,000 mercenaries during the "Third War" of the French Wars of Religion (his intervention was financed by Queen Elizabeth I of England). He invaded Burgundy, but was killed in the conflict.
He is buried in Meisenheim.
[edit] Family and children
He was married in 1545 Anna of Hesse, daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse. They had the following children:
- Christine (1546 – 1619).
- Philip Louis (1547 – 1614), married Anna {1552-1632}, daughter of William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.
- John I (1550 – 1604), married Magdalene (1553-1633), daughter of William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.
- Dorothea Agnes (1551 – 1552).
- Elisabeth (1553 – 1554
- Anna (1554 – 1576.
- Elisabeth (1555 – 1625)
- Otto Henry (1556 – 1604).
- Frederick (1557 – 1597).
- Barbara (1559 – 1618), married on 7 November 1591 to Count Gottfried of Oettingen-Oettingen.
- Karl I (1560 – 1600), married Dorothea of Brunswick-Lüneburg and became ancestor to the line of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld and the Dukes in Bavaria.
- Maria Elisabeth (1561 – 1629), married in 1585 to Count Emich XII of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg.
- Susanna (1564 – 1565).
| Preceded by Otto Henry |
Count Palatine of Neuburg 1559–1569 |
Succeeded by Philipp Louis |
| Preceded by Louis II |
Duke of Zweibrücken 1532–1569 |
Succeeded by John I |
| Count Palatine of Sulzbach 1532–1569 |
Succeeded by Otto Henry |
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| Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Vohenstrauss-Parkstein 1532–1569 |
Succeeded by Frederick |
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| Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld 1532–1569 |
Succeeded by Karl I |
[edit] References
- Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon
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