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John II, Count Palatine of Simmern
John II was Count Palatine and Duke of Simmern from 1509 to 1557, ruling a small Wittelsbach territory in the Hunsrück together with a share of Sponheim. He introduced the Reformation in his lands and was a patron of learning, supporting a printing press at Simmern. His son Frederick III inherited the Electoral Palatinate in 1559, when the senior electoral line died out.
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