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# Christian (1637 – 26 April 1717)
Christian II managed to end the sovereignty of the Archbishopric of Bremen over Oldenburg; in return he assisted Bremen against the rebellious farmers in Stedingen.
In 1671 he inherited Palatinate-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from his cousin Charles II Otto.
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Christian II (22 June 1637 – 26 April 1717) was the Duke of Birkenfeld-Bischweiler from 1654 until 1717, the Duke of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld from 1671 until 1717, and the Count of Rappoltstein from 1673 until 1699.
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Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld
#Maurice Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg (b. Merseburg, 5 February 1688 - d. Merseburg, 21 April 1731).
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Christian II of Saxe-Merseburg (Merseburg, 19 November 1653 – Merseburg, 20 October 1694), was a duke of Saxe-Merseburg and member of the House of Wettin.
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after=Christian III
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In fact, he is only remembered today for one of the obelisks in the gardens of Schloss Merseburg, where he appears together with his wife.
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He was the second (but eldest surviving) son of Christian I, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg, and Christiana of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
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#Christian III Maurice, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg (b. Merseburg, 7 November 1680 - d. Merseburg, 14 November 1694).
In Ahrensbök on 28 February 1625 Christian married his cousin Eleonore Sophie (b. Sonderburg, 14 February 1603 - d. Ballenstedt, 5 January 1675), daughter of John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, by his second wife Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt (sister of his father Christian I) and also by birth a princess of Denmark as a granddaughter in the male line of King Christian III.
Vogt and patron of the abbey-principality at the time was Dorothea's brother, Christian II, Elector of Saxony.
He married Countess Palatine Louise of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, daughter of Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld and Countess Catharine Agathe of Rappoltstein, in Hanau on 22 Oct 1700.
During the ceasefire, Dacke was the de facto ruler of most of southern Sweden and received offers of foreign support from the Elector Palatine Frederick II (who was the son in law of Christian II and claimed the Swedish throne) and Duke Albrecht of Mecklenburg.
The war between Denmark and Sweden ended in March 1520 when, as one of the conditions of the settlement, the Swedes accepted Christian II as the King of Sweden.
Two years later he died, and with him the male line of the branch, so the state passed to Christian II of Palatinate-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler.
His third wife was Countess Antoinette Augusta von Aldenburg (1660-1701), eldest daughter of Anton I, Count von Aldenburg und Knyphausen (by his first wife, Countess Auguste Johanna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein), legitimated son of Anton Gunther, last of the independent Counts of Oldenburg, who belonged to the Delmenhorst cadet branch of the House of Oldenburg whose senior line became hereditary kings of Denmark.