Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

Friedrich-Michael von Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld

Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (Ribeauvillé, Alsace, February 27, 1724 – Schwetzingen, August 15, 1767) was a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty. He was the father of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria. He was the son of Christian III of Palatinate-Zweibrücken and Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken and a member of the House of Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, a branch of the House of Wittelsbach.

Seven Years' War

Frederick Michael was Palatine Fieldmarshal, Governor of Mannheim and finally in 1758 as Fieldmarshal of the Holy Roman Empire commander-in-chief of the Reichsarmee in the Seven Years' War against Frederick the Great.

Family

He married Maria Franziska of Sulzbach and had five children :

• Karl III August Christian (1746 – 1795)
• Klemens August Joseph Friedrich (1749 – 1750)
• Maria Amalie Auguste (1752 – 1828), Married Frederick Augustus I, King of Saxony
• Maria Anna (1753 – 1824), Married Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria.
• Maximilian I (1756 – 1825), King of Bavaria

He also had an illegitimate son by his mistress, Louise Cheveau :

• Karl Friedrich Stephan (1767 – 1834), Baron of Schönfeld (1813), Count of Otting and Fünfstetten (1817). His daughter Luise married August von Senarclens de Grancy.

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