John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

John I of Pfalz- Zweibrücken ( born May 8, 1550 in Meisenheim; † August 12, 1604 in Germersheim ) was from 1569 until his death, Count Palatine and Duke of Palatinate -Zweibrücken and was also active as a genealogist of his house and the house of his wife Magdalene of Jülich -Cleves -Berg. He founded the younger line Zweibrücken.

Life

John was the second son of the Count Palatine and Duke Wolfgang of Zweibrücken (1526-1569) from his marriage to Anna (1529-1591), daughter of Count Philipp I of Hesse. To the education of the prince took care among others Georg Marius, who acted reformist Johann and was therefore dismissed by John Lutheran father.

While in the inheritance his older brother Philipp Ludwig received the Principality of Pfalz- Neuburg, Johann fell to the Principality of Pfalz- Zweibrücken, his father had considerably impacted financially. Therefore, Johann initially held on for reasons of cost at the court of his brother in Neuburg, while the regency was carried out in Zweibrücken by councils. 1575 Johann joined themselves to the government, however, could the debt burden despite partial assumption of debt by the landscapes in which also citizens and peasants were represented, not master. In 1577, John signed the Formula of Concord after 1570 already the Lutheran church order had been renewed. 1588 he replaced in his principality, the Lutheran confession of his father by the reformed, which strained relations to his brothers sustainable. As the world's first ruler in 1592, he led a compulsory education. From the year 1593 Johann moved Huguenots in Annweiler. John, who suffered his life under a disability and limped, took very intense around the state administration. Externally, Johann approached to the Palatinate and was bypassing his elder brother in the will of Frederick IV of the Palatinate determined as regent, which led to the final rupture of the already fractious in the confessional question brothers.

John's tomb in the Zweibrücker Alexander Church was destroyed in the Second World War.

Marriage and issue

John I married in 1579 in Bergzabern Magdalena ( 1553-1633 ), daughter of Duke William of Jülich -Cleves -Berg, with whom he had the following children:

  • Ludwig Wilhelm (1580-1581)
  • Maria Elisabeth (1581-1637)
  • Anna Magdalena (* / † 1583 )
  • John II (1584-1635), Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
  • Friedrich Kasimir (1585-1645), Count Palatine of Zweibrücken- Landsberg
  • Elisabeth Dorothea (1586-1593)
  • Son (* / † 1588)
  • John Casimir (1589-1652), Count Palatine of Zweibrücken- Kleeburg
  • Daughter ( * / † 1590)
  • Amalie Henriette Jacqueline (1592-1655)
  • Son (* / † 1593)
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