John II, Count Palatine of Zweibrucken
| John II | |
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| Count Palatine of Zweibrücken | |
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| Spouse(s) | Catherine de Rohan Louise Juliana of the Palatinate |
| Noble family | Wittelsbach |
| Father | John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken |
| Mother | Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg |
| Born |
26 March 1584 Bergzabern |
| Died | 9 August 1635 (aged 51) Metz |
John II the Younger (German: Johann II. der Jüngere) (26 March 1584 – 9 August 1635) was the Duke of Zweibrücken from 1604 until 1635.
John was born in Bergzabern in 1584 as the eldest son of John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife, Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. He succeeded his father in 1604 and in 1606 he took back possession of the lordship of Bischweiler in Alsace for the House of Wittelsbach from a vassal, Flach von Schwanzenberg. In 1611 he executed his late father's dispositions in favour of his younger brothers, Friedrich Casimir and Johann Casimir, giving them, respectively, the appanages of Landsberg and Neukastell, retaining for his own realm most of Zweibrücken.
From 1610 until 1612 he was the guardian of Frederick V, Elector Palatine. In this function he was briefly the deputy of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II in 1612, and he minted coins with the Imperial two-headed eagle on reverse.
His first wife having died in 1607, he remarried a cousin, daughter of the Elector Palatineat Heidelberg in May and two months later purchased the estate of Birlenbach (Bas-Rhin), which included dependent manors from Eberhard, Count of Ribeaupierre.
John died in 1635 in Metz and was buried in the Alexander Church in Zweibrücken.
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