Palatinate-Simmern and Zweibrücken explained

Native Name:Pfalzgrafschaft Simmern und Zweibrücken
Conventional Long Name:Counties Palatine of Simmern and Zweibrücken
Common Name:Palatinate-Simmern and Zweibrücken
Era:Middle Ages
Status:Vassal
Empire:Holy Roman Empire
Government Type:Principality
Year Start:1410
Year End:1459
Event Start:Partitioned from
Electoral Palatinate
Event1:Inherited Veldenz
Date Event1:1444
Event2:Inheritance partitioned
Date Event2:1444
Event End:Partitioned in twain on
death of Stephen
P1:Electoral Palatinate
Flag P1:Banner of the Palatinate.svg
P2:County Palatine of Veldenz
Flag P2:Wappen Grafschaft Veldenz.svg
Border P2:no
S1:House of Palatinate-Simmern
Flag S1:Arms of the Palatinate (Palatinate-Bavaria)-Simmern.svg
Border S1:no
S2:Palatine Zweibrücken
Flag S2:DEU Pfalz-Veldenz COA.svg
Border S2:no
Capital:Zweibrücken

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. In 1444 the County of Veldenz was added to the state but later in the year Stephen partitioned his territories between his sons Frederick (who received Simmern) and Louis (who received Zweibrücken and Veldenz). In 1448, Stephen inherited half the territories of Palatinate-Neumarkt but sold them to Palatinate-Mosbach.

Count Palatine