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Magdalena Catherine, Countess Palatine of Zweibrucken
(
German
:
Magdalena Katharina von Pfalz-Zweibrucken
; 26 April 1607,
Zweibrucken
– 20 January 1648,
Strasbourg
) was a
Countess Palatine of Zweibrucken
by birth and by marriage Duchess and Countess Palatine of
Birkenfeld
.
Life
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Magdalena Catherine was the only child of the Duke and Count Palatine
John II of Zweibrucken-Veldenz
(1584?1635) from his first marriage to Catherine de Rohan (1578?1607), daughter of
Rene II, de Rohan
. From the second marriage of his father, she had seven half-siblings, of whom the oldest half-brother,
Frederick
inherited their father's position as Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrucken.
She married on 14 November 1630 in Zweibrucken Count Palatine and Duke
Christian I
of Birkenfeld (1598?1654). Magdalena Catherine brought as a dowry to her husband the district of
Bischweiler
in
Alsace
into the marriage.
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The couple initially lived in a wing of Birkenfeld Castle.
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Later Christian built a castle of his own, which they used as a family residence. Bischweiler was completely destroyed in 1635 in the throes of the
Thirty Years' War
.
Magdalena Catherine died in exile in Strasbourg on 20 January 1648. She was buried in the Reformed Church of Bischweiler.
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Offspring
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From her marriage, Katharina Magdalena had the following children:
- Unnamed Son (* / † 1631)
- Gustav Adolph (* / † 1632)
- John Christian * (* / † 1633)
- Dorothea Catherine
(1634?1715)
- married in 1649 Count
John Louis of Nassau-Ottweiler
(1625?1690)
- Louise Sophie (1635?1691)
- Christian II
(1637?1717), Duke and Count Palatine of Birkenfeld
- married in 1667 Countess Catherine Agathe of Rappoltstein (1648?1683)
- John Charles
(1638?1704), Count Palatine and Duke of Gelnhausen
- married firstly, in 1685 Princess and Countess Palatine Sophie Amalie of Zweibrucken (1646?1695)
- married secondly, in 1696 Esther Marie of Witzleben (1665?1725)
- married in 1659 Count
Johann Reinhard II of Hanau-Lichtenberg
(1628?1666)
References
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- Annelise Stemper:
Die Medaillen der Pfalzgrafen und Kurfursten bei Rhein: pfalzische Geschichte im Spiegel der Medaille
, Band 1, Wernersche, 1997, p. 845