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Countess Palatine Barbara of Zweibrücken-Neuburg
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Countess Palatine Barbara of Zweibrücken-Neuburg (27 July 1559 – 5 March 1618) was a Countess Palatine of Zweibrücken by birth and by marriage Countess of Oettingen-Oettingen.
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Barbara was born in Neuburg, a daughter of Duke and Count Palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken (1526–1569) from his marriage to Anna (1529–1591), the daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.[citation needed]
On 7 November 1591, she married Count Gottfried of Oettingen-Oettingen (1554–1622) in Oettingen.[citation needed] She was his second wife.[citation needed] She brought a dowry of 14,000guilder into the marriage.[1] In 1594, Barbara gave birth to a daughter named Jakobina, but she died later that year.[citation needed]
Countess Barbara of Oettingen studied alchemy intensively and is considered one of the most important women in the history of the field.[citation needed] She employed several alchemists and corresponded extensively on this subject with her nephew, Augustus, Count Palatine of Sulzbach.[citation needed] Barbara also performed numerous experiments for Emperor Rudolf II in his residence in Prague, until she was expelled from the court.[2]
Barbara died in Oettingen in 1618 was buried beside her husband in the Castle Church of St. Michael in Harburg.[citation needed] Their tomb is decorated figure of the Countess at the side of her husband and his first wife.[citation needed]
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