Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken

Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
Frederick Michael, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
Spouse(s)	Countess Palatine Maria Franziska of Sulzbach
Noble family	House of Wittelsbach
Father	Christian III, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
Mother	Caroline of Nassau-Saarbrücken
Born	(1724-02-27)27 February 1724 Ribeauvillé, Alsace
Died	15 August 1767(1767-08-15) (aged 43) Schwetzingen

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.