Zweibrücken-Bitsch
County of Zweibrücken-Bitsch Grafschaft Zweibrücken-Bitsch | |||||||||||||
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| 1286/1302 – 1570 | |||||||||||||
Coat of arms
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Counties of Zweibrücken-Zweibrücken (dark green) and Zweibrücken-Bitsch (light pink) around 1400 | |||||||||||||
| Status | State of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||||
| Capital | Bitsch | ||||||||||||
| Language | German | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Roman Catholic | ||||||||||||
| Government | County | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||||||
• Established | 1286–1302 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1570 | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | |||||||||||||
The County of Zweibrücken-Bitsch (German: Grafschaft Zweibrücken-Bitsch, French: comté de Deux-Ponts-Bitche) was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire that was created between 1286 and 1302 from the eastern part of the County of Zweibrücken and the Barony of Bitche (German: Bitsch) in Lorraine. It existed until 1570, when it was divided amongst its heirs when the counts died out.