County of Zweibrücken
County of Zweibrücken Grafschaft Zweibrücken | |||||||||||
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| 1182/90 – 1394 | |||||||||||
Coat of arms of the Counts of Zweibrücken
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Counties of Zweibrücken (dark green) and Zweibrücken-Bitsch (pink) about 1400 | |||||||||||
| Status | County | ||||||||||
| Capital | Zweibrücken 49°15′N 7°22′E / 49.250°N 7.367°E | ||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||
• Partitioned from County of Saarbrücken | 1182 | ||||||||||
• Partitioned in twain | between 1295 and 1333 | ||||||||||
• Fell to Electoral Palatinate | 1394 | ||||||||||
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The County of Zweibrücken (German: Grafschaft Zweibrücken) was a territory in the Holy Roman Empire named for Zweibrücken in which is now situated in the Rhineland-Palatinate. It was created sometime between 1182 and 1190 from an inheritance division of the county of Saarbrücken and lasted until 1394.