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Alexander
Duke and Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and Count of Veldenz
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“What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.”
“Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.”
“Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians.”
“Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?”
“Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal.”
“For my part, I assure you, I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.”
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Alexander of Zweibrücken (German: Pfalzgraf Alexander von Zweibrücken "der Hinkende") (26 November 1462 – 21 October 1514) was Count Palatine, Duke of Zweibrücken and Count of Veldenz in 1489–1514.
He was the son of Louis I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and his wife Johanna of Croÿ.
Alexander's Church (Alexanderskirche) 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. Its crypt is the burial place of numerous counts/dukes of his house's line.
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:
Johanna (1499–1537), a nun in Trier.
Louis II (1502–1532).
George (1503–1537).
Margarete (1509–1522), a nun at Marienberg bei Boppard.
Rupert, a canon in Trier, Strassburg and Cologne, then count Palatine of Veldenz (1506–1544).
Katharina (1510–1542), married before 1 February 1541 to Count Otto IV of Rietberg.
Alexander of Zweibrücken was Count Palatine, Duke of Zweibrücken and Count of Veldenz in 1489–1514.
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