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Duke of Zweibrücken

County Palatine of Zweibrücken
Pfalz-Zweibrücken
State of the Holy Roman Empire
1444–1801


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Capital Zweibrücken
Languages German
Religion Roman Catholicism;
Lutheranism, from 1532
Calvinism, from 1588
Government Principality
Historical era Middle Ages
 •  Split from
    Pfalz-Simmern and Zweibrücken
    unified with County of Veldenz
1444
 •  Annexed by France 1801
Preceded by
Succeeded by
County Palatine of Zweibrücken Pfalz-Simmern and Zweibrücken
County of Veldenz County of Veldenz
French First Republic


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Palatine Zweibrücken (German: Pfalz-Zweibrücken), or the County Palatine of Zweibrücken, is a former state of the Holy Roman Empire. Its capital was Zweibrücken (French: Deux-Ponts). Its reigning house, a branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was also the Royal House of Sweden from 1654 to 1720.

Palatine Zweibrücken was established as a separate principality in 1444, when Stefan, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken divided his territory, Pfalz-Simmern and Zweibrücken, between his two sons. The younger son, Louis I, received the County of Zweibrücken and the County of Veldenz.

Palatine Zweibrücken ceased to exist in 1801, when it was annexed by France. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, some parts of it were returned to the last Duke, King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, who joined them with other former territories on the left bank of the Rhine to form the Rheinkreis, later the Rhenish Palatinate.


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