Everything about Wolfgang Count Palatine Of Zweibr Cken totally explained
Wolfgang of Zweibrücken (
26 September 1526 –
11 June 1569), was member of the familiy of the
Counts 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.
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, 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).
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