John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

John I of Zweibrücken German: Pfalzgraf Johann I von Zweibrücken (8 May 1550 – 12 August 1604) was Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken in 1569-1604.

He was born in Meisenheim as the second son of Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife Anna of Hesse. In 1588 he replaced the state religion from Lutheranism to Calvinism. He died in Germersheim in 1604 and was buried in the Alexanderkirche in Zweibrücken.

[edit] Ancestors

**John's ancestors in three generations**
John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken	Father: Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken	Paternal Grandfather: Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken	Paternal Great-grandfather: Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Margarete of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein
		Paternal Grandmother: Elisabeth of Hesse	Paternal Great-grandfather:
			Paternal Great-grandmother:
	Mother: Anna of Hesse	Maternal Grandfather: Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse	Maternal Great-grandfather: William II, Landgrave of Hesse
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
		Maternal Grandmother: Christine of Saxony	Maternal Great-grandfather: George, Duke of Saxony
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Barbara of Poland

He married in 1579 with Duchess Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, daughter of William "the Rich", Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, and they had the following children:

Ludwig Wilhelm (28 November 1580 – 26 March 1581)
Maria Elisabeth (7 November 1581 – 18 August 1637), married in 1601 to Pfalzgraf Georg Gustav of Veldenz
Anna Magdalena, born and died in 1583
John II of Zweibrücken-Veldenz (26 March 1584 – 9 August 1635)
Frederick Casimir of Zweibrücken-Landsberg (10 June 1585 – 30 September 1645)
Elisabeth Dorothea, died young in 1593
John Casimir of Kleeburg (20 April 1589 – 18 June 1652)
Amalia Jakobäa Henriette (26 September 1592 – 18 May 1655), married 1638 to Count Jakob Franz of Pestaclada
Anna Katharina, born and died in 1597

He died in Germersheim.

Preceded by Wolfgang	Duke of Zweibrücken 1569–1604	Succeeded by John II in Veldenz
		Succeeded by Frederick Casimir in Landsberg
		Succeeded by John Casimir in Kleeburg