Frederick Casimir, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Landsberg


Frederick Casimir 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. After his father's death in 1604, Frederick Casimir and his brothers partitioned his territories; Frederick Casimir received the territory around Landsberg in Alsace.
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. He died in Montfort-en-Auxois in 1645 and was buried in the Alexanderkirche in Zweibrücken.

Marriage

Frederick Casimir married Countess Emilia Antwerpiana of Nassau, a daughter of William the Silent, Prince of Orange, on 4 July 1616 and had Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, his heir.

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