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The "Meisenheim Wittelsbach" line was founded by Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken, who ruled from Meisenheim and is buried in the castle church. All Bavarian kings and several Swedish ones, including Charles X, Charles XI and Charles XII, originated from this house.
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Palatinate-Simmern and Zweibrücken ( German: Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire based in the Simmern and Zweibrücken in modern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany . Palatinate-Simmern and Zweibrücken was created in 1410 out of the partition of the Palatinate after the death of King Rupert III for his son Stephen.
Dukes of Jülich and Berg. Counts of Veldenz. Issued from Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, 4th son of Stephen, Count Palatine of Simmern-Zweibrücken. House of Palatinate-Simmern-Sponheim. Counts Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim. Younger sons (Georg and Reichard) of John II, Count Palatine of Simmern. House of Palatinate-Simmern-Kaiserslautern.
In 1410, Stephen married Anna of Veldenz, who died in 1439. After the death of Anna's father in 1444, Stephen also gained control of Veldenz and of the Veldenz share of Sponheim . In the same year, he also divided the country between his sons Frederick I , who became Count Palatine of Simmern, and Louis I , who became Count Palatine of Zweibrücken.
Stephen of Simmern-Zweibrücken German: Stefan Pfalzgraf von Simmern-Zweibrücken 23 June 1385 – 14 February 1459, Simmern was Count Palatine of Simmern as well as Zweibrücken from 1410 until his death in 1459.
