Friedrich V (Zollern)

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Friedrich V von Zollern († May 24, 1289 at Hohenzollern Castle ), known as "the illustrious" , was a Count of Zollern .

Life

Friedrich was the son of Count Friedrich IV von Zollern from his marriage to Elisabeth von Abensberg and followed his father around 1255 as Count von Zollern.

He acquired the bailiwick of Beuron Abbey and was the founder of Stetten Abbey in Gnadental in 1259 . The foundation was expanded again in 1267 together with his wife. In the same year the Stetten monastery was also designated as the hereditary burial place of the Hohenzollern family . The burial place was probably connected to Hohenzollern Castle by an underground passage . Legend has it that Frederick founded the monastery in order to placate Emperor Friedrich II because he had denied him military success. With the related Swabian Counts of Hohenberg , Friedrich was in constant disputes, which were only settled in 1286 through mediation by King Rudolf von Habsburg . The disputes with the Hohenbergers had a long history, especially in 1267 the situation escalated.

The possessions of the Swabian Hohenzollern formed a fairly closed domain. Most of the distant property had been sold anyway. Friedrich ruled the area of ​​the later Principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen , the later Württemberg Oberamt Balingen , the rule of Mühlheim and a stretch of land between Hechingen and Tübingen . Balingen was lost to the Hohenzollern in 1403 through sale to the Württemberg people. There was no closed area in the direction of the sphere of influence of the Counts of Hohenberg. Here the properties mingled. Under Friedrich, who was described as pious and respected, the Zollerngrafen reached a peak of power. By the division of the country under his sons Friedrich VI. and Frederick I lost the actual county considerably in importance.

Marriage and offspring

In 1258 Friedrich married Udilhild, daughter of Hartmann, the last Count of Dillingen and sister of Bishop Hartmann of Augsburg . Udilhild survived her husband and died as a nun in Stetten . The following children emerged from this connection:

⚭ 1281 Princess Kunigunde of Baden (1265-1310)
⚭ Heinrich von Geroldeck († 1300)
⚭ 1282 Udilhild von Merkenberg († 1305)
  • Wilburg († after 1300), nun in Stetten

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Binder: Allgemeine Realencyclopädie or Conversationslexicon for Catholic Germany , Volume 5, Verlag von Georg Joseph Manz, 1847, p. 442
  2. ↑ Gustav Schilling: History of the House of Hohenzollern, in genealogically continuous biographies of all its rulers from the oldest to the most recent times, according to documents and other authentic sources , F. Fleischer, 1843, p. 145

literature

  • EG Johler: History, geography and local history of the sovereign German principalities of Hohenzollern, Hechingen and Sigmaringen. Stettin'sche Buchhandlung. Ulm 1824, e-book
  • Gustav Schilling: History of the House of Hohenzollern in genealogically continuous biographies of all its rulers from the oldest to the most recent times, according to documents and other authentic sources. Fleischer, Leipzig 1843, e-book
  • Ottmar F. Schönhuth: The castles, monasteries, churches and chapels of Württemberg and the Preui︣sch-Hohenzollern regions with their stories, legends and fairy tales , Fischhaber, 1860, p. 291
  • Count Rudolph Stillfried-Alcántara, Traugott Maercker: Hohenzollerische Forschungen , C. Reimarus, 1847, p. 124 ff.

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predecessor Office successor
Friedrich IV. Count of Zollern
1255–1289 		Friedrich VI.
personal data
SURNAME Friedrich V.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frederick the Illustrious
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Zollern
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 1289
Place of death Castle Hohenzollern