Palatine Zweibrücken
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The Duchy of Palatinate-Zweibrücken was a duchy of the Holy Roman Empire with full voting rights to the Reichstag. Its capital was Zweibrücken. The reigning house, a branch of the Wittelsbach dynasty,
Charles XII, King of Sweden (1682–1718). Portrait by Johann Heinrich Wedekind
Zweibrücken Palace
View of Zweibrücken; engraving after a painting by Theodor Verhas
Charles II August (1775–1795)
Maximilian I Joseph was Duke of Zweibrücken from 1795 to 1799, prince-elector of Bavaria from 1799 to 1806, then King of Bavaria from 1806 to 1825. He was a member of the House of Palatinate-Birkenfel
Palatine Zweibrücken
…ceased to exist in 1797 when it was annexed by France. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, some parts of it were returned to the last Duke, King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria, who joined them with other former territories on the left bank of the Rhine to form the Rheinkreis, later the Rhenish Palatinate. The County Palatine…
Portrait by Joseph Stieler, 1822
Maximilian Joseph
Monument to Max I Joseph, outside of the National Theatre, Munich (1835)
The king's youngest daughters (Marie Anne, Sophie and Ludovika) by Stieler