Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

Friedrich von Pfalz- Zweibrücken ( 5 * April 1616 in Zweibrücken, † July 9, 1661 in Nohfelden ) was Count Palatine and Duke of Palatinate -Zweibrücken 1635-1661 He came from the younger branch Two bridges that became extinct with his death..

Life

Frederick was the eldest son of the Duke and Count Palatine John II of Zweibrücken (1584-1635) from his marriage to Luise Juliane (1594-1640), daughter of the Elector Frederick IV of the Palatinate. Godfather of Prince was his uncle Frederick V of the Palatinate. Friedrich was formed by the humanists Balthasar Venator, who accompanied him from 1631 to 1634 on its two and a half year grand tour through Switzerland, France and the Netherlands.

1635 had made ​​its first test during the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War, the military inexperienced Prince. He was defeated and his army of 2,000 at the Oppenheim to imperial troops of Count Gallas, which led to Metz to the devastation of his duchy and to escape the farm. There, his father died and he joined its successor in exile. Economy and population in the principality shrank sharply. At his death, were little more than a tenth of the population that had existed for the previous turn of the century, remained.

The destruction of most of Castles conditionally, Friedrich had to change several times his residence. After his return to the duchy in 1640, he lived first in Meis home, from 1645 in Zweibrücken and from about 1650 built up for several years in the back and just poorly equipped Burg Kirkel. In the Peace of Westphalia, he could regain the Kloster Hornbach.

Frederick died at the age of 45 years at Castle Nohfelden and was buried in the Alexander Church in Zweibrücken. Friedrich survived all his sons and his younger brother, which is why he went out with the main line of Zweibrücken. His cousin from the Landsberger line inherited him.

Marriage and issue

Friedrich married on April 6, 1640 in Metz Anna Juliane ( 1617-1667 ), daughter of Count Wilhelm Ludwig of Nassau- Saarbrücken, with whom he had ten children.

  • Wilhelm Ludwig (1641-1642)
  • Elisabeth (1642-1677)
  • Christine Louise Juliana (1643-1652)
  • Friedrich Ludwig (1644-1645)
  • Sophie Amalie (1646-1695)
  • Eleonore Auguste (1648-1658)
  • Karl Gustav (1649-1650)
  • Catherine Charlotte (1651-1652)
  • Charlotte Friederike (1653-1712)
  • Son (1656-1656)
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