Ancestral Trails 2016 » Johann von ZWEIBRUCKEN II (1584-1635)

Personal data Johann von ZWEIBRUCKEN II 

  • He was born on March 26, 1584 in Bad Bergzabern, Sudliche Weinstrasse, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

    Fout Attention: Married (??-??-1579) before birth (March 26, 1584).

    Waarschuwing Attention: Age at marriage (??-??-1579) below 16 years (0).

  • Title: Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken
  • (Ancestry) : House of Wittelsbach.
  • (Nickname) : "The Lame".
  • He died on August 9, 1635 in Metz, Moselle, Alsace-Lorraine, France, he was 51 years old.
  • He is buried August 1604 in Alexanderkirche, Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany.

    Fout Attention: Had already been buried (??-08-1604) 9 months before the birth (July 16, 1613) of child (Elizabeth Louise Juliana von ZWEIBRUCKEN).

    Fout Attention: Had already been buried (??-08-1604) 9 months before the birth (April 5, 1616) of child (Friedrich von ZWEIBRUCKEN).

    Fout Attention: Had already been buried (??-08-1604) 9 months before the birth (April 23, 1621) of child (Juliana Magdalena von ZWEIBRUCKEN).

    Fout Attention: Had already been buried (??-08-1604) 9 months before the birth (October 19, 1622) of child (Maria Amalie von ZWEIBRUCKEN).

    Fout Attention: Buried (??-08-1604) before death (August 9, 1635).

    Fout Attention: Buried (??-08-1604) before marriage (May 13, 1612).

    Fout Attention: Had already been buried (??-08-1604) 9 months before the birth (April 26, 1607) of child (Magdalena Catherine von der PFALZ).

    Fout Attention: Had already been buried (??-08-1604) 9 months before the birth (July 22, 1619) of child (Johan Ludwig von ZWEIBRUCKEN).

    Fout Attention: Had already been buried (??-08-1604) 9 months before the birth (July 20, 1617) of child (Anne Sybille von ZWEIBRUCKEN).

  • A child of Johan von ZWEIBRUCKEN and Magdalena von JULICH-CLEVE-BERG

Household of Johann von ZWEIBRUCKEN II

(1) He is married to Louise Juliane von der PFALZ.

They got married on May 13, 1612, he was 28 years old.


Child(ren):



(2) He is married to Catherine de ROHAN.

They got married in the year 1579.


Child(ren):



Notes about Johann von ZWEIBRUCKEN II

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 Palatine at 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.

Family and children
John married Catherine de Rohan (20 June 1578 - 10 May 1607), daughter of René II, Viscount of Rohan on 26 August 1604 and had the following daughter:
Magdalena Catherine (26 April 1607 - 20 January 1648), married to Christian I, Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler

John married Louise Juliana (16 July 1594 - 28 April 1640), daughter of Frederick IV, Elector Palatine, on 13 May 1612 and had the following children:

Elizabeth Louise Juliana (16 July 1613 - 29 March 1667), Abbess of Herford
Catherine Elizabeth Charlotte (11 January 1615 - 21 March 1651), married to Wolfgang Wilhelm, Count Palatine of Neuburg
Frederick (5 April 1616 - 9 July 1661)
Anne Sybille (20 July 1617 - 9 November 1641)
John Louis (22 July 1619 - 15 October 1647)
Juliana Magdalena (23 April 1621 - 25 March 1672), married to Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
Maria Amalie (19 October 1622 - 11 June 1641)
SOURCE: Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_II,_Count_Palatine_of_Zweibr%C3%BCcken

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Birthday March 26, 1584

  • Stadhouder Prins Willem I de Zwijger (Prins Willem van Oranje) (Huis van Oranje) was from 1581 till 1584 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1584: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 25 » Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
    • May 16 » Santiago de Vera becomes sixth Governor-General of the Spanish colony of the Philippines.
    • July 4 » Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe arrive at Roanoke Island
    • July 10 » William I of Orange is assassinated in his home in Delft, Holland, by Balthasar Gérard.
    • September 13 » San Lorenzo del Escorial Palace in Madrid is finished.

Day of marriage May 13, 1612

  • Stadhouder Prins Maurits (Huis van Oranje) was from 1585 till 1625 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1612: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 13 » Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō at Funajima island.
    • August 18 » The trial of the Pendle witches, one of England's most famous witch trials, begins at Lancaster Assizes.
    • August 19 » The "Samlesbury witches", three women from the Lancashire village of Samlesbury, England, are put on trial, accused of practicing witchcraft, one of the most famous witch trials in British history.
    • September 8 » The foundation day in São Luís, Maranhão, Brazil.
    • November 1 » During the Time of Troubles, Polish troops are expelled from Moscow's Kitay-gorod by Russian troops under the command of Dmitry Pozharsky (22 October O.S.).
    • November 29 » The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on India.

Day of death August 9, 1635

  • Stadhouder Prins Frederik Hendrik (Huis van Oranje) was from 1625 till 1647 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1635: Source: Wikipedia
    • April 23 » The first public school in the United States, Boston Latin School, is founded in Boston.
    • May 30 » Thirty Years' War: The Peace of Prague is signed.
    • June 28 » Guadeloupe becomes a French colony.
    • July 30 » Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.
    • October 9 » Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after religious and policy disagreements.
    • November 22 » Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launch a pacification campaign against native villages, resulting in Dutch control of the middle and south of the island.


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