Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

Friedrich Ludwig von Pfalz- Zweibrücken -Landsberg (* October 27, 1619 in Heidelberg, † April 11, 1681 in Landsberg) was since 1645 Duke of Palatinate -Landsberg and 1661 also inherited Palatinate -Zweibrücken. He was the last Landsberger line of the Wittelsbach.

Friedrich Ludwig took office at a time when there were as a result of the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War, administration and infrastructure in the Duchy in a desolate state. To a limited extent, he added, through rehabilitation, region rearrangements and the promotion of trade to stabilize the situation. As part of the reunions Louis XIV, he was ordered before the reunification chamber Metz and should make the French king fealty. Since he refused to do so, the French occupied 1680 Zweibrücken. A year later, he died grief-stricken in a house in Moschellandsberg. Since his death the male offspring were from his first marriage all died and for the children of the morganatic marriage was no succession claim, Pfalz -Zweibrücken fell through the Erbantritt Charles I of Sweden. Friedrich Ludwig is buried in the Castle Church in Meis home.

Progeny

Frederick was the son of Frederick Casimir of the Palatinate- Landsberg and Princess Amalie of Nassau. In 1645 he married Juliane Magdalena of Pfalz- Zweibrücken ( 1621-1672 ), daughter of John II of Zweibrücken. He had with her thirteen children:

Immediately after Magdalena's death in 1672, Juliane Friedrich Ludwig was a Morgana Tables marriage with Mary Elizabeth Hepp ( 1635-1722 ). The five children of this marriage were ennobled as " barons of Fürstenwärther and castle aces Odenbach ":