Friedrich (Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Veldenz)
Friedrich von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (born April 5, 1616 in Zweibrücken , † July 9, 1661 in Nohfelden ) was Count Palatine and Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken from 1635 to 1661. He came from the younger line of Zweibrücken, which went out with his death.
Life
Friedrich was the eldest son of Duke and Count Palatine Johann II of Zweibrücken (1584–1635) from his marriage to Luise Juliane (1594–1640), daughter of Elector Friedrich IV of the Palatinate . The prince's godfather was his uncle Friedrich V von der Pfalz . Friedrich was trained by the humanist Balthasar Venator , who accompanied him from 1631 to 1634 on his two-and-a-half-year cavalier tour through Switzerland , France and the Netherlands .
In 1635 the militarily inexperienced Hereditary Prince had to pass his first test during the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War . With his army of 2,000 men near Oppenheim he was defeated by the imperial army of Count Gallas , which led to the devastation of his duchy and the flight of the court to Metz . His father died there and he succeeded him in exile. The economy and population in the principality shrank sharply. When he died, little more than a tenth of the population that had existed at the turn of the previous century remained.
Due to the destruction of most of the castles and palaces, Friedrich had to change his residence several times. After his return to the duchy in 1640 he lived first in Meisenheim , from 1645 in Zweibrücken and from around 1650 for a few years in the rebuilt and only poorly equipped Castle Kirkel . In the Peace of Westphalia he was able to win back the Hornbach monastery .
Friedrich died at Nohfelden Castle at the age of 45 and was buried in the Alexander Church in Zweibrücken. Friedrich survived all his sons and also his younger brother, which is why the Zweibrücken main line went out with him. His cousin from the Landsberg line inherited him.
Marriage and offspring
Friedrich married on April 6, 1640 in Metz Anna Juliane (1617–1667), daughter of Count Wilhelm Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken , with whom he had ten children.
- Wilhelm Ludwig (1641–1642)
- Elisabeth (1642–1677)
- ⚭ 1667 Prince Viktor I. Amadeus von Anhalt-Bernburg (1634–1718)
- Christine Louise Juliana (1643-1652)
- Friedrich Ludwig (1644–1645)
- Sophie Amalie (1646–1695)
- ⚭ 1. 1678 Count Siegfried von Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (1619–1684)
- ⚭ 2. 1685 Count Palatine Johann Karl von Gelnhausen (1638–1704)
- Eleonore Auguste (1648–1658)
- Karl Gustav (1649–1650)
- Katharina Charlotte (1651-1652)
- Charlotte Friederike (1653-1712)
- ⚭ 1672 Count Palatine and Hereditary Prince Wilhelm Ludwig of Zweibrücken-Landsberg (1648–1675)
- Son (1656–1656)
literature
- Johann Samuelansch: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , J. f. Gleditsch, 1842, p. 181 digitized
- Balthasar Venator: Panegyricus principi Friderico dicatus ad diem quintum Aprilis qui natalis ei fuit XL . In: Venator, Balthasar: Gesammelte Schriften , ed. by Georg Burkard and Johannes Schöndorf, Heidelberg 2001, Bibliotheca Neolatina; 9.1, ISBN 3-934877-02-8 , pp. 438-523.
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Johann II. |
Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken 1635–1661 |
Friedrich II. Ludwig |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pfalz-Zweibrücken, Friedrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1616 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zweibrücken |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1661 |
| Place of death | Nohfelden |