John I the Lame (German: Johann I. der Hinkende) (18 May 1550 - 12 August 1604) was the Duke of Zweibrücken from 1569 until 1604.
Life[]
John was born in Meisenheim in 1550 as the second son of Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken. 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.
Marriage[]
John married Magdalena of Cleves (2 September 1553 - 30 August 1633), daughter of Duke William V of Jülich-Berg-Cleves, on 4 October 1579 and had the following children:
- Louis William (28 November 1580 - 26 May 1581)
- Maria Elizabeth (7 November 1581 - 18 August 1637)
- Anne Magdalena (11 January 1583 - 6 February 1583)
- John II (26 March 1584 - 9 August 1635)
- Frederick Casimir (10 June 1585 - 30 September 1645)
- Elizabeth Dorothea (26 July 1586 - 23 November 1593)
- unnamed son (24 February 1588)
- John Casimir (20 April 1589 - 8 June 1652)
- unnamed daughter (7 June 1590)
- Amalia Jakobäa Henrietta (18 September 1592 - 18 May 1655)
- unnamed son (28 September 1593)
- Anne Catherine (28 July 1597 - 2 December 1597)
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Preceded by: |
John I |
Succeeded by: |
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| Wolfgang | Duke of Zweibrücken 1569 - 1604 |
John II of Palatinate-Zweibrücken |
| Frederick Casimir of Palatinate-Landsberg | ||
| John Casimir of Palatinate-Kleeburg |