Christian I
Count Palatine of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler
Count Palatine by Rhine, Duke in Bavaria, Count to Sponheim etc.
Born	( 1598-11-03 ) 3 November 1598 Birkenfeld
Died	6 September 1654 (1654-09-06) (aged 55) Neuenstein
Buried	Bischwiller
Noble family	House of Wittelsbach
Spouse(s)	Magdalene Catherine, Countess Palatine of Zweibrucken Maria Joanna of Helffenstein
Father	Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrucken-Birkenfeld
Mother	Dorothea of Brunswick-Luneburg

Christian I (3 November 1598 ? 6 September 1654) was the Duke of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler from 1600 until 1654.

Life [ edit ]

Christian was born in Birkenfeld in 1598 as the youngest son of Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrucken-Birkenfeld . His father's lands were partitioned after his death and Christian received the territory around Bischwiller (German: Bischweiler) in Alsace . Christian died in Neuenstein in 1654 and was buried in Bischwiller.

First marriage [ edit ]

Christian married Magdalena Catherine of Palatinate-Zweibrucken (26 April 1607 ? 20 January 1648), daughter of Duke John II , on 14 November 1630 and had the following children:

1. unnamed son (13 September 1631)
2. Gustavus Adolph (2 July 1632 ? 4 August 1632)
3. John Christian (16 June 1633 ? 19 August 1633)
4. Dorothea Catherine (3 July 1634 ? 7 December 1715)
5. Louise Sophie (16 August 1635 ? 25 September 1691)
6. Christian (1637 ? 26 April 1717)
7. John Charles (17 October 1638 ? 21 February 1704)
8. Anne Magdalena (14 February 1640 ? 12 December 1693)
9. Claire Sybille (20 February 1643 ? 27 March 1644)

Second marriage [ edit ]

After the death of his first wife, Christian married for the second time to Countess Maria Johanna of Helfenstein (1607?1648) (8 September 1612 ? 20 August 1665), daughter of Count Rudolph III of Helfenstein (1585-1627) and Countess Eleonora zu Furstenberg (1578-1651), widow of Maximilian Adam, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg , on 28 October 1648 and had the following son:

1. unnamed son (1648)

Ancestors [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

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