Eitel Friedrich II. (Hohenzollern-Hechingen)

Eitel Friedrich II. Von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (also Eitel Friedrich V. von Hohenzollern , * January 1601 in Hechingen , † July 11, 1661 in Issenheim ) was the consequent second ruler ( prince ) of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and an imperial general in the Thirty Years War .

Life

Eitel Friedrich was the eldest son of Prince Johann Georg von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1577–1623) from his marriage to Franziska († 1619), daughter of Count Friedrich I von Salm , Wild and Rhine Count in Neufville. The father attached particular importance to a good education. The prince was sent to the universities in Vienna and Ingolstadt for this purpose . Educational trips to Italy and France also followed .

Eitel Friedrich took over the reign of the principality in 1623. He was also initially Obrist an infantry regiment in the service of Emperor Ferdinand II. Under the Habsburgs took the Thirty Years' War its beginning. Eitel Friedrich was loyal to the Catholic Church and just as loyal as an imperial general. The Hohenzollern Castle , the headquarters of the Hohenzollern family , was strategically extremely important from a military point of view. The principality was surrounded by Protestant neighbors. During the war, the fortress developed into a focal point and was besieged and devastated by the Swedes and Württemberg people . The castle was recaptured by the imperial troops in 1635. The Austrians retained the right of occupation to the castle in exchange for an annual payment of 5,000 guilders, which they did not give up until 1798. During the Thirty Years War the people in Hohenzollern-Hechingen became impoverished. Eitel Friedrich was also confronted with clearly communicated financial claims from family members. His brothers were apanages been assured that now pay, but were hardly applied. So Eitel Friedrich had to sell several attractive fiefdoms in the course of his financing efforts. The prince was admitted to the Imperial Princes College of the Reichstag in Regensburg in 1653 .

Eitel Friedrich succumbed to a wound he had received in Budweis and left no male heirs. His brother Philip followed him as prince .

Marriage and offspring

Portrait of Maria Elisabeth

Eitel Friedrich married on March 19, 1630 in Boutersem Maria Elisabeth (1613–1671), daughter of Count Heinrich van Bergh 's-Heerenberg and heiress of the margraviate of Bergen op Zoom and the counties of ' s-Heerenberg and Walhain . He had the following children with her:

• Son (* / † 1632)
• Franziska (1642–1698), Margravine von Bergen op Zoom

⚭ 1662 Comte Frédéric Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne (1642–1707)

literature

• Gustav Schilling: History of the House of Hohenzollern , F. Fleischer, 1843, p. 228 ff.
• Heinrich August Pierer: Pierer's Universal Lexicon of the Past and Present: or, Latest Encyclopedic Dictionary of Sciences, Arts and Crafts , Volume 8, 1859, p. 465 ( digitized version )
• Johann Samuelansch: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , J. f. Gleditsch, 1832, p. 418 ( digitized version )

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Georg	Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen 1623–1661	Philip