Gustav Samuel Leopold (Pfalz-Zweibrücken)
Gustav Samuel Leopold (born April 12, 1670 on the Stegeborg in Söderköping , † September 17, 1731 in Zweibrücken ) was Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken .
origin
Gustav Samuel Leopold was the son of Adolf Johann I , Count Palatine and Duke of Palatinate-Kleeburg (1629–1689) and his second wife, Else Elisabeth Brahe zu Wisingsberg (1632–1689). In 1696 he converted to the Roman Catholic faith.
Domination
He was already Duke of Kleeburg from 1689 and with the death of Karl XII. of Sweden in 1718 he was also Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken . He was the last ruling member of the Wittelsbach line Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Kleeburg.
He moved the residence again to Zweibrücken Castle and had Jonas Erikson Sundahl built the baroque residential castle Gustavsburg named after him in Jägersburg from 1720 to 1725 .
Marriages
On July 10, 1707, he married Countess Palatine Dorothea von Pfalz-Veldenz-Lützelstein (born January 16, 1658 in Lützelstein; † August 17, 1723 in Strasbourg) in Zweibrücken. She was a daughter of Count Palatine Leopold Ludwig von Pfalz-Veldenz-Lützelstein (* 1623; † 1694) and Countess Agatha Christine von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1632; † 1681).
The marriage of Gustav Samuel Leopold and Dorothea was canceled by the church on April 23, 1723 because they were too closely related. He then morganatically married Luise Dorothea, Countess von Hoffmann (1700–1745) on May 13, 1723 . She was the daughter of the chief hunter Johann Heinrich von Hoffmann. For Luise Dorothea he had the Louisenthal Castle built near Wörschweiler in Gutenbrunnen in 1723 .
Both marriages remained childless.
When he died, his estate fell to Christian III. from the Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler line.
tomb
Gustav Samuel Leopold's grave is in the Alexander Church in Zweibrücken; his heart rests in the catholic church St. Antonius, Meisenheim , behind the heart epitaph there. Luise Dorothea was buried in Frankfurt.
literature
- Peter Fuchs: Gustav Samuel Leopold. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1966, ISBN 3-428-00188-5 , pp. 334-336 ( digitized version ).
- Arthur Kleinschmidt : Gustav Samuel Leopold . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 188 f.
- Haeutle, Genealogy of the House of Wittelsbach, 1870, 171 / IV
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Johann Casimir |
Duke of Pfalz-Kleeburg 1689–1731 |
Christian III |
| Charles II |
Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, Duke of Pfalz-Veldenz 1718–1731 |
Christian III |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gustav Samuel Leopold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gustav Samuel Leopold of Pfalz-Zweibrücken |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1670 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Söderköping |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 17, 1731 |
| Place of death | Zweibrücken |