Friederike von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Friederike von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Marchesa Pepoli

Friederike Wilhelmine von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (born March 24, 1820 in Sigmaringen ; † September 7, 1906 in Forlì ) was a princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and was married to Marchesa Pepoli.

Life

Friederike was the youngest child of Prince Karl von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1785–1853) from his marriage to Princess Antoinette Murat (1793–1847). Her brother was the later Prince and Prussian Prime Minister Karl Anton .

She married Marchese Joachim Napoleon Pepoli (1825–1881) on December 5, 1844 in Sigmaringen . The Italian politician was, through his mother Letizia, a grandson of the Neapolitan King Joachim Murat and Caroline Bonaparte , a sister of Emperor Napoleon I. Friederike and Gioachino's mothers were cousins. King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia viewed the marriage of his “cousin” as a mesalliance and the connection was considered one of the rare morganatic marriages among the Hohenzollerns of the 19th century.

Four years after the marriage, Friederike's father abdicated as the ruling prince; he died in 1853 in his daughter's house in Bologna . In the 1860s, Marchese Pepoli was the Italian ambassador to St. Petersburg . The couple was considered to be the social center of the capital, where the social elite of the empire frequented. Their receptions were considered highlights.

progeny

Friederike had three daughters from their marriage:

Letizia (1846-1902)

⚭ 1868 Count Antonio Gaddi (1842–1914)

Antoinetta (1849-1887)

⚭ 1872 Count Carlo Taveggi (1836–1902)

Luisa Napoleona (1853-1929)

⚭ 1872 Count Dominico Guarini-Matteucci di Castelfalcino (1848–1905)

literature

Westermanns Monatshefte , Volume 17 (1864/65), p. 602, ISSN 0931-9360 ( digitized version )

Baltic Monthly , Volume 9 (1864), p. 104 ( digitized version )

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation. Volume 40 = Section 6: History of the Small German Courts. Volume 6. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1856, p. 90 .
↑ Historisches Jahrbuch , Lorck, 1854, p. 285 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Friederike von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Friederike Wilhelmine von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen; Friederike Wilhelmine Marchesa Pepoli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German princess
DATE OF BIRTH	March 24, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sigmaringen
DATE OF DEATH	September 7, 1906
Place of death	Forlì

[1] Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation. Volume 40 = Section 6: History of the Small German Courts. Volume 6. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1856, p. 90 .

[2] Historisches Jahrbuch , Lorck, 1854, p. 285 ( digitized version )