Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
# Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

Alexander of Zweibrücken (German: Pfalzgraf Alexander von Zweibrücken "der Hinkende") (26 November 1462 – 21 October 1514) was Count Palatine, Duke of Zweibrücken and Count of Veldenz in 1489–1514.

## Life

He was the son of Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife Johanna of Croÿ.

Alexander's Church (Alexanderskirche [de]) is the oldest church in Zweibrücken, a late-Gothic Protestant hall church built from 1493 to 1514 as a gift from Alexander after his return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Its crypt is the burial place of numerous counts/dukes of his house's line.

## Family

He was married in 1499 in Zweibrücken to Countess Margarete of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, daughter of Count Kraft VI of Hohenlohe and Helene of Württemberg. They had the following children:

* Johanna (1499–1537), a nun in Trier.
* Louis II (1502–1532).
* George (1503–1537), a canon in Trier, Strassburg and Cologne.
* Margarete (1509–1522), a nun at Marienberg bei Boppard.
* Rupert (1506–1544).
* Katharina (1510–1542), married before 1 February 1541 to Count Otto IV of Rietberg.

## Ancestors

Ancestors of Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken :

