Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

He was the son of Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife Johanna of Croÿ.

Alexander's Church (Alexanderskirche [de]) is the oldest church in Zweibrücken, a late-Gothic Protestant hall church built from 1493 to 1514 as a gift from Alexander after his return from a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.^[1] Its crypt is the burial place of numerous counts/dukes of his house's line.^[1]

He was married in 1499 in Zweibrücken to Countess Margarete of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein, daughter of Count Kraft VI of Hohenlohe and Helene of Württemberg. They had the following children:

1. Johanna (1499–1537), a nun in Trier.
2. Louis II (1502–1532).
3. George (1503–1537).
4. Margarete (1509–1522), a nun at Marienberg bei Boppard.
5. Rupert, a canon in Trier, Strassburg and Cologne, then count Palatine of Veldenz (1506–1544).
6. Katharina (1510–1542), married before 1 February 1541 to Count Otto IV of Rietberg.