Karl I. (Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld)

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Karl I von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (around 1575)
Master of the Vohenstrauss portraits, oil on canvas, 179.5 × 95 cm
Grave monument, Meisenheim Castle Church

Karl I of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (born September 4, 1560 in Neuburg ; † December 16, 1600 in Birkenfeld ), Count Palatine near the Rhine , Duke in Bavaria , Count of Veldenz and Sponheim, was Count Palatine and Duke of Palatinate from 1569 -Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld .

Life

Karl was the fifth son of Duke and Count Palatine Wolfgang von Zweibrücken (1526–1569) from his marriage to Anna (1529–1591), daughter of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse .

Karl was considered learned, he had an important library built at Birkenfeld Castle , but also as staid. He had a commemorative coin minted for the birth of the Hereditary Prince. As the founder of the Wittelsbach line from Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, he became the progenitor of the Bavarian royal family.

Karl died at Birkenfeld Castle and is buried in the Protestant castle church in Meisenheim . Since his sons were minors when he died, his brothers Philipp Ludwig and Johann took over the regency.

His son Christian made him one of the progenitors of the Bavarian kings . All Wittelsbachers living today are descended from Karl.

Marriage and offspring

Charles I married on February 23, 1586 in Celle Dorothea (1570–1640), daughter of Duke Wilhelm of Braunschweig-Lüneburg , with whom he had the following children:

  • Georg Wilhelm (1591–1669), Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
⚭ 1. 1616 Countess Dorothea von Solms-Sonnenwalde (1586–1625)
⚭ 2. 1641 (divorced 1642) Wild and Rhine Countess Juliane von Dhaun-Grumbach (1616–1647)
⚭ 3. 1649 Countess Anna Elisabeth von Oettingen (1603–1673)
⚭ 1615 Count Kraft VII. Von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (1582–1641)
  • Friedrich (1594–1626), canon in Strasbourg
  • Christian I (1598–1654), Count Palatine and Duke of Bischweiler
⚭ 1. 1630 Countess Palatine Magdalene Katharine von Zweibrücken (1607–1648)
⚭ 2. 1648 Countess Maria Johanna von Helfenstein-Wiesensteig (1612–1665)

literature

  • Annual report [afterw.] Trier annual reports , 1858, p. 50 digitized

Web links

Commons : Karl I. (Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Daffner: The Wittelsbach House Union of 1724 , GRIN Verlag, 2008, p. 3
  2. ^ Website on the epitaph in the Meisenheim Castle Church
predecessor Office successor
wolfgang Duke of Pfalz-Birkenfeld
1569–1600 		Georg Wilhelm
personal data
SURNAME Charles I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, Karl I. von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count Palatine and Duke of Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
DATE OF BIRTH September 4, 1560
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuburg on the Danube
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 1600
Place of death Birch field