Friedrich Ludwig (Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Landsberg)

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

Friedrich Ludwig took over his office at a time when, as a result of the turmoil of the Thirty Years War, the administration and infrastructure in the Duchy were in a desolate state. To a limited extent, he contributed to the stabilization of the situation through reconstruction measures, regional reorganizations and the promotion of trade. As part of the reunions of Louis XIV, he was appointed to the Metz reunification chamber and was supposed to take the oath of fief to the French king. Since he refused, the French occupied Zweibrücken in 1680. A year later he died grief-stricken in a house in Moschellandsberg. Because at his death the male descendants from his first marriage had all died and for the children from the morganatic oneBefore there was no claim to inheritance, Pfalz-Zweibrücken fell to Sweden when Charles I took over . Friedrich Ludwig is buried in the castle church in Meisenheim .

progeny

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

1. Karl Friedrich (1646–1646)
2. Wilhelm Ludwig, Hereditary Prince (1648–1675)
   ⚭ November 14, 1672 Charlotte Friederike von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1653–1712), daughter of Friedrich
3. Daughter, Countess Palatine (1648–1649)
4. Son, Count Palatine (1650–1650)
5. Gustav Johann (1651-1652)
6. Daughter, Countess Palatine (1652–1652)
7. Charlotte Amalie (1653–1707) ⚭ July 24, 1678 Johann Philipp, Count of Isenburg-Offenbach (1655–1718)
8. Luisa Magdalena (1654–1672)
9. Marie Sophie (1655-1659)
10. Elisabeth Christine (1656–1707)
    ⚭ August 7, 1678 Emich XIV., Count von Leiningen (1649–1684)
    ⚭ December 22, 1692 Christoph Friedrich, Burgrave and Count zu Dohna-Lauck (1652–1734)
11. Karl Casimir (1658–1673)
12. Juliana Eleonore (1661–1662)
13. Johann, Count Palatine (1662–1665)

Immediately after Juliane Magdalena's death in 1672, Friedrich Ludwig entered into a morganatic marriage with Maria Elisabeth Hepp (1635–1722). The five children from this marriage were ennobled as "barons von Fürstenwarther and Burgsassen zu Odenbach" :

1. Wilhelm Friedrich (1673-1732)
2. Karl Aemilius (1674–1758) → his grandchildren were the Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Friedrich Karl von Fürstenwarther (1769–1856) and his twin brother, the Bavarian officer Leopold von Fürstenwarther (1769–1839)

⚭ Sophie Juliane von Kellerbach († August 31, 1715)

⚭ Elisabeth Dorothea von Steincallenfels († April 21, 1758)

1. Ludwig Philipp (1676–1724)
2. Son (1677–1677)
3. Maria Elisabetha (1679–1680 / 1681)

literature

• Zweibrücken. 600 years of the city 1352–1952 ; Historical Association of the Palatinate, 1952

In this:

• Max Schuler: Karl XII. from Sweden and Zweibrücken ; P. 57 ff.
• Hans Wölbing: On the history of the Biblioheka Bipontina ; P. 262 ff.

Web links

• Friedrich Ludwig in Heinz Wembers genealogy of the Wittelsbach family
• Publications by and about Friedrich Ludwig in VD 17 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Genealogical paperback of the baronial houses , Volume 2, 1849, pp. 131ff.

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Casimir	Duke of Pfalz-Landsberg 1645–1661	united with Pfalz-Zweibrücken
Friedrich I.	Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken 1661–1681	Charles I.