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GERMANY, [Deux-ponts.
houfe for 25,000 florins, and the other half he afterward? left to the Elector
Rupert the Elder. In the year 1410, this county was afligned to Duke
Stephen, who bequeathed it, together with the county of Veldenz, to his
fon Lewis the Swarthy. How thefe territories, thus united, came to be
called the Dutchy of Deux-ponts, has been (hewn in the account of Veldenz:
Under Duke Wolfgang this dutchy fuffered a confiderable dilmembrement
by his
grant of part of the territories of Veldenz and Lautereck to his uncle
"Rupert. On the other hand, by virtue of the treaty of Heidelberg in the
year 1553, and the compad at Marburgh, in 1559, entered into with his
grand-father George John, Eledor-palatine, the fame Duke Wo[fgang, on
the demife of the Eledfor Otta Henry, fucceeded to one half of the hither
county of Sponheim ; and a itvf years before, the above Eledtor, Otto Henry
had conferred on him the dutchy q{ Neuburg, which had defcended to him
by his mother. This laft dutchy he fetded on his eldeft fon Philip Lewis,
and the dutchy of Deux-ponts on his fecond fon -,
John but, as the eldeft fon
was, by his father's will, to cede to his brother. Otto Henry, the caftle,
court and town of Sulzbach, together with the bailiwicks of Hipoltßein and
Allerfperg, and to his brother Frederick the caftle, bailiwick and jurifdiction
of Farkßein and Weiden, as alfo the bailiwick of Floßenburg, in ths
dutchy of Nenburg, as an appenage ; John, the fecond Ton, was alfo to
make over to Charles, the youngeft of thefe brothers, one moiety of the
county of Sponheim. John, Duke of Deux-ponts, had two fons ; 'oi-z.
John Frederick Cafunir and John Cafimir. Frederick Lewis defcended from
the fecond fon dying, in the year 1681, without heirs, the fucceffion devolved
on the pofterity of the third fon, John Cafimir, whofe fon, Charles
Gujlavus, arrived to be King of Sweden ; and his fon, Charles XL King alfo
Kingdom, fucceeded to the dutchy of Deux-po7its and tranfmitted
of that
it to his martial fon Charles XII. The latter being killed at the fiege of
Frederickß.^all \vi. Norway, in the year 171 8, this dutchy defcended to Duke
Gußavus Samuel Leopold, whofe father Adolphus John was brother to King
Charles Gußavus. He died without heirs in the year 1731, on which
Duke Chrißian III. of Berkenfeld, put in his claim to the dutchy of Deuxponts
; and, in the year 1733, by virtue of a compact with the Ele(5torpalatine,
obtained it, yielding up to that Prince the under bailiwick of
Stadecken.
§. 2. The Duke of Deiixponts enjoys a feat and vote in the college of
Princes, as alfo in the Diets of the Circle of the Upper Rhine. His matricular
afleffment is ten horfe and thirty foot,
or two hundred and forty florins
per month ; and to the chamber at Wetzlar, a dedudlion being made for
the bailiwick of Stradecken, he pays one hundred and feventy-two rixdollars
and thirty-fix kruitzers.
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§. 3. The annual revenues of the territories of Deux-ponti are computed
300,000 florins.
§.4. The