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John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

1550 - 1604

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John I of Zweibrücken (known as the Lame; German: Pfalzgraf Johann I von Zweibrücken; 8 May 1550 – 12 August 1604) was Count Palatine and Duke of Zweibrücken during 1569–1604. He was born in Meisenheim as the second son of Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife Anna of Hesse. In 1588 he changed the state religion from Lutheranism to Calvinism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken has received more than 68,690 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken is the 627th most popular nobleman (down from 608th in 2019), the 2,419th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,350th in 2019) and the 120th most popular German Nobleman.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken ranks 627 out of 1,415. Before him are Judith of Bohemia, Theobald III, Count of Blois, Fernando d'Ávalos, Archduchess Catherine Renata of Austria, Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, and Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon. After him are Henry IV, Duke of Limburg, Michael, Prince of Montenegro, Maria of Amnia, Nikola Jurišić, Louis, Duke of Vendôme, and Otto IV, Count of Burgundy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1550, John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken ranks 20. Before him are Do-Aklin, Jacobus Gallus, Damat Ibrahim Pasha, Emilio de' Cavalieri, Michael Maestlin, and False Dmitry III. After him are Abu Abdallah Mohammed II Saadi, Orazio Vecchi, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Sotomayor, 7th Duke of Medina Sidonia, Marie Eleonore of Cleves, Francisco Sanches, and Tang Xianzu. Among people deceased in 1604, John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken ranks 6. Before him are Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Catherine de Bourbon, Fausto Sozzini, Claudio Merulo, and Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort. After him are Christine of Hesse, Hamida Banu Begum, Ercole, Lord of Monaco, Isabella Andreini, Otto Henry, Count Palatine of Sulzbach, and Francesco Barozzi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken ranks 2,419 out of 7,253. Before him are Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1789), Astrid Kirchherr (1938), Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1797), Heinz Rühmann (1902), Wilhelm Schmidt (1868), and Anna Schäffer (1882). After him are Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), Sahra Wagenknecht (1969), Karlheinz Deschner (1924), Hans Tilkowski (1935), Winfried Schäfer (1950), and Oskar Barnack (1879).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Germany

Among noblemen born in Germany, John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken ranks 120. Before him are Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst (1679), William Louis, Duke of Württemberg (1647), Duchess Charlotte Georgine of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1769), Heinz Brandt (1907), Princess Maria Christina of Saxony (1770), and Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1797). After him are Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1528), Prince Albert of Prussia (1837), Rupert I, Elector Palatine (1309), Princess Maria Augusta of Saxony (1782), Bogislaw XIV, Duke of Pomerania (1580), and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1614).

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