Zweibrücken

Zweibrücken was a county in the western Palatinate, founded by a younger branch of the counts of Saarbrücken. In 1337 Count Walram II ruled its western lands after the family partition.

The town of Zweibrücken received city rights in 1352. Eberhard II, the childless last count of Walram's line, was impoverished by feuds and pledged the county to the Wittelsbach counts palatine in 1385; they inherited it on his death in 1394. Its union with Veldenz in 1444 created the Principality of Palatinate-Zweibrücken.