Frederick Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg

Frederick Casimir of the Palatinate- Landsberg ( born June 10, 1585 in Zweibrücken, † September 30, 1645 at Montfort Castle in Montigny -Montfort ) was the second son of John I and Magdalene of Jülich -Cleves -Berg and Duke of Palatinate - Landsberg the founder of a short-lived branch line of the Wittelsbach family. It was continued in the dynastic not entitled to inherit the Baron of Fürstenwärther.

After the death of his father in 1604 he shared and his two brothers the inheritance among themselves: the eldest, John, inherited Palatinate -Zweibrücken, the second, Friedrich Kasimir received, office and Burgenland mountain while the Office Kleeburg to the youngest son, Johann Casimir went.

Friedrich Kasimir began to have converted the castle into a residential castle. The Thirty Years War brought the plant then a turbulent history: in 1620 occupied and looted the Spaniards, in 1631 the Swedes and 1635 Imperial Croats. During this time, the family fled to the castle of Montfort in Montigny -Montfort in Burgundy. Friedrich Kasimir's wife Emilia had received from her father, and remained there as a widow.

Friedrich Kasimir was buried in the Church Alexander in Zweibrücken.

Progeny

He was since July 4, 1616 Emilia Secunda Antwerpiana of Orange- Nassau ( Amalie ) ( 1581-1657 ), daughter of William I married. The couple had the following children:

• Friedrich ( * 1617, † 1617)
• Friedrich Ludwig ( * October 27, 1619, † April 11, 1681 ) ∞ Juliane Magdalena of Pfalz- Zweibrücken ( 1621-1672 ), daughter of John II of Palatinate -Zweibrücken; then with Mary Elizabeth Hepp (1635-1722), from which the Baron of Fürstenwärther sprang.
• Karl Heinrich ( * 1622, † 1623)