Countess Palatine Magdalene Catherine of Zweibrücken
Magdalena Catherine, Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken was a Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken by birth and by marriage Duchess and Countess Palatine of Birkenfeld.Life
Magdalena Catherine was the only child of the Duke and Count Palatine John II of Zweibrücken-Veldenz from his first marriage to Catherine de Rohan, daughter of René 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 Zweibrücken.
She married on 14 November 1630 in Zweibrücken Count Palatine and Duke Christian I of Birkenfeld. Magdalena Catherine brought as a dowry to her husband the district of Bischweiler in Alsace into the marriage. The couple initially lived in a wing of Birkenfeld Castle. 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.Offspring
From her marriage, Katharina Magdalena had the following children:
