Frederick Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg

Frederick Casimir
Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg
Born	(1585-06-10)10 June 1585 Zweibrücken
Died	30 September 1645(1645-09-30) (aged 60) Montfort-en-Auxois
Buried	Alexanderkirche, Zweibrücken
Noble family	House of Wittelsbach
Spouse(s)	Emilia Antwerpiana of Nassau
Issue	Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
Father	John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
Mother	Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg

Frederick Casimir (German: Friedrich Kasimir) (10 June 1585 – 30 September 1645) was the Duke of Landsberg from 1604 until 1645.

Life

Frederick was born in Zweibrücken in 1585 as the second son of John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.^[1] After his father's death in 1604, Frederick Casimir and his brothers partitioned his territories; Frederick Casimir received the territory around Landsberg Castle near Obermoschel.^[2]

In 1611 his late father's dispositions in his favour and that of his younger brother, Johann Casimir, were finally implemented, giving them, respectively, the appanages of Landsberg and Neukastell, reserving for their eldest brother most of Palatine Zweibrücken.^[1] He died in Montfort-en-Auxois in 1645 and is buried alongside other counts/dukes of the house's line, in the crypt of Alexander's Church (Alexanderskirche [de]) in Zweibrücken, built in 1493 by his ancestor Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken.^[3]

Family

Frederick Casimir married Countess Emilia Antwerpiana of Nassau (9 December 1581 – 28 September 1657), a daughter of William the Silent, Prince of Orange, on 4 July 1616 and had Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (27 October 1619 – 11 April 1681), his heir.^[1]

Ancestors

Source:^[1]

Ancestors of Frederick Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg

16. Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken 8. Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken 17. Margarete of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein 4. Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken 18. William I, Landgrave of Hesse 9. Elisabeth of Hesse 19. Anna of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 2 .John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken 20. William II, Landgrave of Hesse 10. Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse 21. Anna of Mecklenburg-Schwerin 5. Anna of Hesse 22. George, Duke of Saxony 11. Christine of Saxony 23. Barbara Jagiellon 1. Frederick Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg 24. John II, Duke of Cleves 12. John III, Duke of Cleves 25. Matilda of Hesse 6. William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg 26. William IV, Duke of Jülich-Berg 13. Maria, Duchess of Jülich-Berg 27. Sibylle of Brandenburg 3. Magdalene of Jülich-Cleves-Berg 28. Philip I of Castile 14. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 29. Joanna of Castile 7. Archduchess Maria of Austria 30. Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary 15. Anna of Bohemia and Hungary 31. Anne de Foix

References

1. Huberty, Michel; Giraud, Alain; Magdelaine, F.; B. (1985). L'Allemagne Dynastique, Tome IV -- Wittelsbach. France: Laballery. pp. 83–84, 104–108, 119–120. ISBN 2-901138-04-7.
2. Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken/Pfalz-Zweibrücken, Herzogtum, Historisches Lexikon Bayerns.
3. Hudlet, Richard B. (1993). 500 Jahre Alexanderskirche Zweibrücken, 1493-1993 : Betrachtungen zur Geschichte einer Kirche und einer Stadt [500 years of Alexander's Church Zweibrücken, 1493-1993: Reflections on the history of a church and a city] (in German). Zweibrücken: Protestantische Kirchengemeinde Zweibrücken-Mitte [Protestant parish of Zweibrücken-Mitte]. ISBN 9783924171186. OCLC 34658300.

Frederick Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg House of Wittelsbach Born: 10 June 1585 Died: 30 September 1645
Preceded by John II	Duke of Landsberg 1604–1645	Succeeded by Frederick Louis