Swabian Hohenzollern

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The Swabian Hohenzollern , the members of the House are Hohenzollern attributed that to the County Zollern with the castle Hohenzollern in Hechingen in today's Baden-Wuerttemberg are connected historically and did not leave once the Swabian tribe country. With Burchardus and Wezil, a monk first mentioned the sex in a chronicle in 1061. In 1576 the two counties of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen were created, from which the principalities of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen were formed in 1623 . At the moment there is only the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen line.

In addition to the Swabian Hohenzollern, the Brandenburg-Prussian Hohenzollern , who were German emperors and kings of Prussia , still exist today . These Hohenzollern emerged from the Franconian Hohenzollern as the Brandenburg Hohenzollern at the beginning of the 15th century . The Franconian Hohenzollern, for their part, split off from the Swabian Hohenzollern at the beginning of the 13th century.

history

Castle Hohenzollern
The family branches around 1370
The old Zollernalb estates in the area of ​​today's Zollernalb district

The Counts of Zollern in the Middle Ages

First mention

The Zollern belong to the oldest and most important Swabian noble families . Zollern was first mentioned in the chronicle of Berthold von der Reichenau in 1061 . He calls Burchardus and Wezil "de Zolorin" who fell. Wezil stands for Werner. The St. Gallen Book of the Dead names August 29th as the day of death. The origins and relationships of the Zollern are uncertain. The noble free von Zollern were one of the first families in southern Germany to name themselves after their ancestral home, the Hohenzollern near Hechingen.

Mention in the context of the Reichenau monastery suggests that the Zollern came to power as administrators of Reichenau church property. In any case, it is certain that there was a close connection with the Bodensee monastery in the early days. Ulrich von Zollern died as abbot of Reichenau in 1136, and later numerous Zollern entered there as monks.

Service for kingdom and church

Adalbert von Zollern was involved in founding the Alpirsbach monastery around 1095. Around 1111 the Zollern were granted count rights by Emperor Heinrich V. They appeared in the 12th century mainly on the diets of the dukes of Swabia and on the court days of the Staufer in connection with Swabian affairs. It is therefore assumed that the count's rights could be based on a fiefdom of the Duchy of Swabia. However, the Zollern were represented both at the Diets of the Zähringer and at the Diets of Henry the Lion for fiefdoms near Ravensburg . Around 1125 they had a rule with their own ministerials . They used their offices that they held in the service of the empire and the church, and the church property they administered, to build up an aristocratic rule. The medievalist Dieter Mertens is the Zollern as old aristocracy in a new formation .

Due to the extinction of the neighboring Counts of Gammertingen and Haigerloch and the decline of the Counts of Veringen and the Count Palatine of Tübingen , the territory was able to grow further. In the second half of the 12th century the Zollern possessions reached their greatest extent. They stretched from the upper Neckar to the upper Danube . In the center was the Zollernburg . But time and again inheritance divisions and inheritance disputes brought the Zollern family in danger. After 1179, the Hohenbergers split off from the Zollern as a side branch and succeeded the Haigerloch county . In the period that followed, they named themselves after the Hohenberg Castle near Schörzingen and acquired land in Rottenburg . They later received the areas around Tübingen and Calw, among others . When the Hohenbergers split off, the western parts of the Zoller holdings were lost.

Staufer following and division of the lines

Friedrich III. von Zollern was a loyal follower of the Hohenstaufen emperors Friedrich I Barbarossa and Heinrich VI. and around 1185 married Sophia von Raabs , the daughter of the Nuremberg burgrave Konrad II. von Raabs . He was very respected in the council of the Hohenstaufen emperors. After the death of his father-in-law, who left no male descendants, Friedrich was in 1191 by Heinrich VI. enfeoffed with the burgraviate of Nuremberg . His sons shared the property. The older, Konrad I von Nürnberg-Zollern, received the burgraviate of Nuremberg in exchange from his younger brother around 1218 and founded the Franconian line of the Hohenzollern, from which the Brandenburg-Prussian line later emerged, the younger brother Count Friedrich IV of Hohenzollern continued the Swabian line .

The noble family of the von Stauffenberg taverns provided the cupbearers for the Counts of Zollern in the 13th century . The Alpirsbach monastery was too far away from Hechingen and could not be used as a burial place. On January 9, 1267, the Stetten Monastery below the old Zollernburg was raised to the status of a house monastery and hereditary burial place of the Zollern by a donation from Count Friedrich V , the illustrious, and his wealthy wife Uodelhilt von Dillingen . For two centuries the monastery church served the Counts of Hohenzollern as a burial place.

Distribution of inheritance and rule of Schalksburg

In the middle of the 13th century, a dispute over the former shear county sparked between the Counts of Hohenberg, von Zollern, von Urach , von Württemberg and those von Veringen. In 1267 an attack by the Zollern on Haigerloch is documented, which ended victorious for the Zollern. It is assumed that battles had already taken place in Ebingen , Schömberg , Rottenburg , Horb and Hechingen, in which, among other things, Binsdorf and Schömberg passed into Hohenberg's possession. While Albert von Hohenberg and King Rudolf von Habsburg were in front of Stuttgart, on October 23, 1286 there was a violent clash between Count Friedrich V von Zollern and Albert's brother Burkard near Balingen , which was from then on Zollerisch. In 1286 a reconciliation between Zollern and Hohenbergern took place in Rottweil around Christmas in the presence of the king, but this did not last long. Count Friedrich V had already granted his two sons co-regency rights during their lifetime. Even before his death, the Schalksburg rule and the Mühlheim rule went to his younger son by way of inheritance distribution, namely to Friedrich the boy, known as von Merckenberg . This established the line of the Counts of Zollern-Schalksburg . Friedrich VI. , called the knight , took over the rule of Zollern-Hohenzollern in May 1288. Friedrich V died on May 24, 1289 and was buried in the Stetten monastery.

Over-indebtedness and reconstruction

The Counts Friedrich IX. called the Schwarzgraf and his brother Friedrich called the Straßburger founded two further lines of their own in 1344. Frederick the Strasbourg was at first canon of Strasbourg , but he returned to the secular class and married in 1343, which is why the black count shared the parental inheritance with him. As a result, the property around Hohenzollern Castle in the ancestral lands was divided between the Schwarzgraf and the Strasbourger. The middle of the three brothers Friedrich von Zollern, called Ostertag (II.), Was canon of Augsburg and Johanniter. He was compensated in the division of inheritance from 1344 with apanage goods and otherwise declared his inheritance waiver .

The Counts of Hohenzollern soon had serious economic problems. Count Eberhard II of Württemberg acquired the pledge over the city of Hechingen in 1388. The Zollern counts undertook to be his partisans for the next six years and to open the town and its ancestral castle to him. In 1402 the possession of the Strasbourg line was then passed between Count Friedrich XII. , called the Öttinger, and his brother Eitel Friedrich I. split up. In 1403 the only son of Count Friedrich V von Zollern-Schalksburg , called Mülli, died. The completely indebted father then decided to sell his estate to Württemberg for 28,000 guilders. His relatives could not have raised these funds, the sale is the historical basis of the saga of the deer guilder . With Muelli's death in 1408, the Schalksburg line died out and the rulership around Balingen was lost to the Zollern counts; the rule of Mühlheim had already fallen to the Lords of Weitingen in 1391.

When the black count line also died out in 1412, the disputes between the brothers Friedrich XII. and Eitel Friedrich I. to an open feud and led the ancestral lands almost to ruin. In 1415 the Öttinger sold his entire property to Württemberg . But this was not enough to satisfy his creditors. The Rottweiler court court pronounced eight over him. An attempt at mediation by the Brandenburg cousins ​​failed. The Swabian imperial cities and Countess Henriette von Württemberg enforced the eight in 1423 by conquering and destroying Hohenzollern Castle. After his release from captivity, Frederick, who was an enemy of his brother, died on a trip to the Holy Land. His brother Eitel Friedrich I also pledged his share in the county to Württemberg and recognized the succession of Württemberg in the Gröningen Treaty in 1429 if he should not have a son. In 1433, however, at the age of almost 50, he fathered his heir Jobst Nikolaus I , and until his death in 1439 he managed to buy back half of his property. In 1454, Count Jost Niklaus I was able to obtain permission from the emperor to rebuild the castle against the resistance of the Swabian Association of Cities . He was financially supported by Margrave Albrecht Achilles of Brandenburg. He also succeeded in terminating the inheritance contract with Württemberg. In 1467 he acquired the towns of Rangendingen and Steinhofen , and in 1473 Jungingen and Hörschwag . He was buried as the last Zollern count in 1488 in the Stetten monastery. Then the collegiate church became a burial place.

Age of Reformation

Vain Friedrich II. Count of Zollern
St. Luzen Monastery , founded by Count Eitel Friedrich IV.
"Ubi thesaurus meus, ibi cor meum" , bronze plate in the St. Luzen monastery church

In the service of the Habsburgs

The Counts of Zollern were the absolute judges and the greatest landlords in their territory. For many years they were in the service of the Habsburgs and held the highest offices in the Holy Roman Empire. The future Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg had already visited Hohenzollern Castle as a child in 1466 and was friends with Count Eitel Friedrich II . In 1497 he was able to win the Haigerloch rule for the county by swapping it with the Rhäzün rule . Under the designation chamber judge he became the first president of the Reich Chamber Court and in 1504 received the office of Reich Chamberlain . He issued the Hohenzollern state order as a code of law for his territory . His grandson Karl I was also Reich Chamberlain and later President of the Reich Court Council . In 1535 he received the counties of Sigmaringen and Veringen as Austrian fiefdoms from his godfather, Emperor Charles V, in recognition of his services . Under Jobst Nikolaus II , the ancestral county of Zollern acquired Heimburg with Grosselfingen , Owingen and Stetten . When Jobst Nikolaus II died in 1558, Karl I also inherited the ancestral county of Zollern with the rule of Haigerloch-Wehrstein. In 1575 Charles I ordered the distribution of his entire estates. After his death in 1576, the Swabian line of Hohenzollern branched out further into the oldest line Hohenzollern-Hechingen for the first son Eitel Friedrich IV. And into the side lines Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Haigerloch for his younger brothers Karl II. And Christoph .

Karl's son Eitel Friedrich IV studied with the Jesuits at the University of Dillingen and in Bourges. After that he was probably in the service of the Bavarian Duke Albrecht V for a while. His son, Duke Wilhelm V , had a close friendship throughout his life. He was regent of the homeland of Hohenzollern-Hechingen from 1576 to 1605. He vigorously rejected Protestant doctrine and at the same time tried to counteract the Württemberg encirclement of his small territory. He is considered to be the new founder of the Dominican convent Rangendingen, which came down and abandoned in the 16th century . Encouraged by Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria, he built a Franciscan monastery near the former Hechingen parish church of St. Luzen . In the upper town of Hechingen, he built a four-wing residential palace in the Renaissance style . Eitel Friedrich died in 1605. His heart was buried in the monastery church of St. Luzen. The bronze commemorative plaque in the Antonius Chapel there bears the inscription: “Ubi thesaurus meus, ibi cor meum” (“Where my treasure lies, there my heart rests”; cf. Lk 12.34  EU ).

Catholic League

During the Reformation, the Swabian Hohenzollern remained catholic in contrast to the Hohenzollern of the Electorate of Brandenburg according to the regulations of the Augsburg Religious Peace (" Cuius regio, eius religio "). The adjacent and much larger Duchy of Württemberg was a Protestant stronghold. The Hohenzollern counties were thus in an exposed position in the escalating denominational dispute. That is why they tied themselves closely to the Duchy of Bavaria, the pioneer of the Catholic League, during the Thirty Years' War . The alliance with the Bavarian Duke Maximilian I and the Catholic Emperor Ferdinand II paid off. After Bohemia was subjugated in 1623 and Bavaria itself rose from the duchy to the electorate, the Swabian Hohenzollern were also rewarded with an increase in rank.

The Reichstag in Regensburg approved the elevation of the two counts as main pillars of the House of Habsburg and the Catholic League to the hereditary prince status . Count Johann Georg von Hohenzollern-Hechingen was raised to prince like his cousin Johann von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen . The Haigerloch line remained without an increase in rank. It died out in 1634, its territory was added to the eldest of the cousins, Johann von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and thus to the Sigmaringer line, according to a decree by Count Karl I. The emergence of the Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Hechingen lines represented one of the most important events in the history of the Swabian Hohenzollern. Comparable relevant historical changes meant for the family the separation of the Hohenberger in the middle of the 12th century and the sale of the Schalksburg rule in 1403 to the people of Württemberg . The two principalities of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Hechingen existed until 1849 and became part of Prussia in 1850 as the Hohenzollernsche Lande .

In the years 1633 to 1634, the Thirty Years' War led to another siege and conquest of Hohenzollern Castle by the Protestant Duke Eberhard III. of Württemberg , which was supported by Swedish troops. Bavarian troops then forced the Württembergers to withdraw again in 1635, but for their part stayed at the castle, in 1650 it was occupied by imperial troops. The Habsburgs considered the place strategically important and bought the right to put a garrison in the castle for 5,000 guilders a year. It was not until 1798 that they gave up this right of occupation.

absolutism

The princes of Hohenzollern-Hechingen only had a small territory and were almost always over-indebted. A brilliant court, the imperial service and the princely representation overstrained the strength of the small country. Strict hunting and forest regulations served to enforce princely absolutism and aroused the displeasure of the peasants. They lost the old right to free stalk . The subjects fought for a limitation of the sovereign omnipotence and a restriction of the labor and duties from 1584 to 1796 in as many as 15 rebellions. But this did not harm the high rank of the princes. They were represented as imperial princes at the Reichstag. Behind Württemberg and Baden they took the seat on the secular princely bench of the Swabian district. The male members of the house performed high military or spiritual functions, the princesses were either married to members of the high nobility or entered into spiritual institutions and monasteries.

By inheritance contracts with the electoral house of Brandenburg in 1695 and 1707, it was determined that the elector of Brandenburg would become head of the entire house of Hohenzollern and should inherit it if the Swabian line expired. This contractual relationship with Prussia strengthened the sense of belonging among the Hohenzollerns and ensured the independence of the small principality. From 1764 to 1775 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was court marshal to the Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.

During the Age of Enlightenment , education was also of greater importance in the Principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen. The most important principle of the Enlightenment was that reason is able to bring the truth to light. Prince Josef Friedrich Wilhelm founded a grammar school in 1775. The teachers also included two Franciscan monks from the St. Luzen monastery. In 1798 serfdom was abolished in the so-called land comparison , and taxation was reorganized.

19th century

Napoleon's ally

Friedrich Prince of
Hohenzollern-Hechingen

At the beginning of the 19th century princess could Amalie Zephyrine of Hohenzollern , a media coverage by Napoléon prevent because she lived in Paris with his wife, Empress Josephine was a friend. The two royal houses of Hohenzollern, Sigmaringen and Hechingen, succeeded in maintaining their sovereignty , otherwise they would both have been added to the new Kingdom of Württemberg. Prince Hermann lost feudal rights in the inherited county of Geulle with the associated lordships of Mouffrin and Baillonville in the Netherlands. As compensation, however, he received the Stetten and Rangendingen monasteries in his territory, the St. Jakob monastery in Hechingen and the Hirschlatt rule in Upper Swabia as part of the secularization .

In 1806 Napoleon created the Confederation of the Rhine and finally smashed the Holy Roman Empire . Prince Hermann had the Rhine Confederation Act of July 12, 1806 signed by an agent. With this, Hohenzollern-Hechingen, together with originally 15 other South and West German imperial estates, formally renounced the Reich and formed a confederation , of which Napoléon acted as the “protector”. Napoléon had previously given a 24-hour ultimatum for the signing, failing which his troops would have marched into southern and western Germany. In his memoirs Ich - Der Kaiser wrote about the accession of the two principalities of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen to the Rhine Confederation :

"The Hohenzollern and the Salm were admitted because several members of these families had stayed in France for a long time and had shown attachment."

- Napoléon Bonaparte

The political proximity to Napoléon was worthwhile for Prince Hermann from two points of view. On the one hand, the two princes of Hohenzollern were able to retain full sovereignty over their territories as the only ones of their Swabian comrades. On the other hand, they were assigned spiritual property within the framework of secularization . His son, the Hereditary Prince and later Prince Friedrich , fought for this as a talented officer on the side of the French, where he suffered serious war injuries during the Russian campaign, from which he never fully recovered.

Time of restoration

New castle , built under Prince Friedrich Hermann Otto

After Napoleon's banishment, Hohenzollern-Hechingen joined the German Confederation . The German Federal Act was the constitution of the German Confederation. It was passed on June 8, 1815 during the Congress of Vienna . According to their preamble, should

"[...] the sovereign princes and free cities of Germany [...], convinced of the advantages that would result from their firm and permanent connection for the security and independence of Germany and the calm and equilibrium of Europe, [...] to a permanent alliance [...] unite. "

- Preamble to the Federal Act

Hohenzollern-Hechingen received one vote in the plenum of the German Confederation. At the beginning of the 19th century, the principality was completely over-indebted due to its desolate financial management and was on the verge of national bankruptcy. For the poet Achim von Arnim , it was used as a template for his novel Armut, Wichtum, Schuld and Penance by Countess Dolores , published in 1810 . In a letter to Jacob Brentano he wrote:

"[...] it is a farce, for which Hechingen gave me the occasion, where the Jewish trading house Kaulla rose in enormous wealth, while the Princely House of Hohenzollern became impoverished."

- Ludwig Achim von Arnim

When Pope Pius VII, for reasons of power politics, abolished the old diocese of Constance , which in his eyes was too liberal and committed to the Enlightenment , and founded the Archdiocese of Freiburg , the Hohenzollern princes joined this re-establishment. Rottenburg am Neckar , which is much closer, became a state bishopric for the Württemberg Catholics.

Reforms and Cultural Flowering

Eugénie de Beauharnais

From 1826 the Principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen became a cultural center in southern Germany under the Hereditary Prince Konstantin and his wife Eugénie de Beauharnais . Eugénie was the step- daughter of Emperor Napoleon I and the granddaughter of the Bavarian King Maximilian I. Famous personalities were guests: Eugénie's cousin, who later became Emperor Napoleon III. , Hector Berlioz and Franz Liszt . The court chapel enjoyed a good reputation and the pair of hereditary princes developed a brisk building activity in the style of classicism . Eugénie had sold the Eugensberg Castle , inherited from her father , and used the proceeds to finance the renovation of Villa Eugenia , where the couple moved in in 1834. Later an English landscape garden was created, which is now called the Prince Garden .

1833 issued Prince Frederick a General Rules . In 1835 the new city ordinance granted the municipalities of the principality the right to self-government. City officials and city ​​clerks were appointed by the prince, for this purpose mayors and city ​​councilors were elected and the city calculators, tax collectors and city ​​builders were chosen from among them . A little later a new electoral law for the first time regulated the country's delegation , the first representative assembly . Prince Friedrich managed the principality carefully despite the high debts. Due to the poor health of his father, his son Konstantin had to grow into the affairs of government while his father was still alive and took over the reign after his death in 1838. The extremely pious Eugénie was socially committed and had a large “ children's institution ” and a home for the elderly built. It was therefore very popular with the common people.

Unrest and annexation to Prussia

The Hohenzollern Lands after 1850
St. Johannes in Hechingen , built by order of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

In 1835 the new electoral regulations for the Principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen were enacted along with general provisions on the constitution and internal organization of state deputies. A state deputation consisting of 15 members was formed:

“The Assembly of Deputies constituted in this way is the only legal organ in the country to allow the Regent's wishes and proposals to be passed on and to negotiate with the Government; therefore all other assemblies and associations which have state affairs as their purpose are illegal, and their resolutions, if any, will be rejected by the government as invalid. "

- Section 44 of the election regulations of February 1, 1835

Quarrels between the parliament and the government and unrest broke out fairly quickly. On August 6, 1848, Prussian troops marched in and occupied Hechingen. In 1850 Hohenzollern-Hechingen fell to Prussia through the resignation of the tired last Prince Constantine . This resulted in two contracts. The State Treaty with Prussia contained the transfer of sovereignty to the Prussian crown. The family contract with the House of Sigmaringen governed the handover of property in the principality with all rights and burdens. In return, Prince Constantine received a double pension from Prussia and the House of Sigmaringen. The State Treaty with Prussia was signed on December 7, 1849 and approved by the Prussian state parliament on January 12, 1850. It was ratified in Berlin on February 20, 1850. The respective bosses of the Hohenzollern houses in Prussia were given priority over all subjects who did not belong to the royal family. They had the right to keep their own court and to confer titles. At the same time, they were awarded the title of sovereignty themselves. They were given privileged jurisdiction and were exempt from indirect taxes. The princely domanial possession in the Hohenzollern principalities was guaranteed by Prussia.

Karl Friedrich , today's boss of the Swabian Hohenzollern

The Prussian seizure of ownership took place in Hechingen on April 8, 1850. From then on, the former principality was part of the Prussian administrative district of Sigmaringen, which is also known as the Hohenzollernsche Lande . King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Accepted the hereditary homage on August 23, 1851 and energetically rebuilt the Hohenzollern family castle . The Protestant Church of St. Johannes in Hechingen was built in 1857 for the newly arrived Prussian officials and soldiers . The castle was inaugurated on October 3rd, 1867 by King Wilhelm I , the later German Emperor . With Prince Konstantin, who had withdrawn to his inherited Silesian possessions, the ancestral line of the Hechingen Hohenzollern family died out on September 3, 1869 with no descendants entitled to inherit. On May 12, 1888, Princess Maria von Hohenzollern-Hechingen, the last of the family over 80, died in Danzig . She was the daughter of the Prussian major general Prince Friedrich Hermann von Hohenzollern and childhood friend of Kaiser Wilhelm I. Similar to Princess Eugenie, she enjoyed great popularity and showed charity in the form of foundations for a poor house and a hospital in Gdansk.

Today Karl Friedrich von Hohenzollern represents the interests of the family in public as head of the Swabian Hohenzollern.

Regents

Coat of arms of the Counts of Hohenzollern 1605
Current coat of arms used by the Princely House

1. Burchard I. von Zollern († 1061)
Children:

  • Friedrich I. Count of Zollern (* before 1085; † 1114/1115 / before 1125 / after 1139)
  • Burchard II of Zollern

2. Friedrich I. Count of Zollern ; called Maute (* before 1085; † 1114/1115 / before 1125 / after 1139)
Father: Burchard I. von Zollern († 1061)
Marriage 1: Udalhild von Urach († April 11 (c.1134))
Children:

  • Friedrich II. Count of Zollern and Hohenberg (* before 1125; † 1142 / after 1145)
  • Burkhard II. Count of Zollern-Hohenberg († c.1154)
  • Gottfried Graf von Zollern-Zimmer (* before 1134; † [1156, 1160])
  • Adalbert von Zollern († June 18 (before 1150))
  • Ulrich von Zollern († 1135/1136)
  • Hemma von Zollern († after 1152)
  • Luitgard von Zollern († May 27 (after 1150))
  • ? from Zollern
  • Egino Count von Zollern († after 1134)
  • Udilhild? Countess von Zollern († November 4 (before 1150))

3. Friedrich II. Count of Zollern and Hohenberg (* before 1125; † 1142 / after 1145)
Father: Friedrich I. Count of Zollern (* before 1085; † 1114/1115 / before 1125 / after 1139)
Mother: Udalhild von Urach († April 11 (around 1134))
Children:

  • Berthold von Zollern († after May 22, 1194)
  • Friedrich III. (I.) Count von Zollern Burgrave of Nuremberg (* before 1171, † after October 1, 1200)

4. Friedrich III. (I.) Count of Zollern and Burgrave of Nuremberg (* before 1171, † after October 1, 1200)
Father: Friedrich II. Count of Zollern and Hohenberg (* before 1125; † 1142 / after 1145)
Marriage 1: Sophia Countess von Raabs († after 1218 / after 1204?)
Children:

  • Adelheid? von Zollern († after 1232)
  • Conrad I (III) Count von Zollern Burgrave of Nuremberg (* around 1186; † [August 24, 1260, March 10, 1261])
  • Friedrich IV. (II) Count von Zollern Burgrave of Nuremberg (* around 1188; † [1251, 1255])
  • Elisabeth von Zollern († November 14, 1255)

5. Friedrich IV. (II) Count of Zollern and Burgrave of Nuremberg ; continued the Swabian line of the Zollern in exchange with the older brother Conrad (* 1188; † [1251, 1255])
Father: Friedrich III. (I.) Count von Zollern Burgrave of Nuremberg (* before 1171, † after October 1, 1200)
Mother: Sophia Countess von Raabs († after 1218 / after 1204)
Marriage 1: Elisabeth von Abensberg
Children:

  • Friedrich V. Count von Zollern, called the illustrious (* before April 2, 1228; † May 24, 1289, Hohenzollern Castle)
  • Sophia von Zollern († April 28 [1260,1270])
  • ? von Zollern (* before April 2, 1228; †?)

6. Friedrich V. Count von Zollern , called the illustrious (* before April 2, 1228; † May 24, 1289, Hohenzollern Castle)
Father: Friedrich IV. (II) Count von Zollern Burgrave of Nuremberg (* around 1188; † [1251,1255])
Mother: Elisabeth von Abensberg
Marriage 1: Udilhild von Dillingen († May 12 (after 1289))
Children:

  • Friedrich VI. Count of Zollern, called the Knight (* before October 8, 1226; † May 4 (1297/1298))
  • Friedrich von Zollern (* before October 8, 1266; † February 24 (after 1306))
  • Adelheid von Zollern († after March 31, 1302)
  • Wilburg von Zollern († June 21 (after 1300))
  • Friedrich I, called the boy , Count von Zollern-Schalksburg (* before October 8, 1266; † [May 17, 1302, April 12, 1303] / 1304/1309), founded the Schalksburg line after the division in 1288

7. Frederick VI. Count of Zollern , called the Knight (* October 8, 1226 - † May 4, 1297/1298)
Father: Friedrich V. Count of Zollern (* before April 2, 1228; † May 24, 1289, Hohenzollern Castle)
Mother: Udilhild von Dillingen († May 12 (after 1289))
Marriage 1: Kunigunde von Baden († July 22, 1310)
Children:

  • Friedrich VII. Count of Zollern († May 3 (around 1309))
  • Friedrich VIII. Count of Zollern. called Easter Day (I.) († February 1, 1333)
  • Friedrich Graf von Zollern Lord of Hainburg (* before 1298; † December 15 [1356, 1361]), after the death of his brother named Ostertag (I.) caretaker for his three nephews Friedrich IX. called Schwarzgraf (I.) , Friedrich called Ostertag (II.) and Friedrich called the Straßburger
  • Kunigunde Countess of Zollern († August 10 [1381, 1383])
  • Sophia Countess von Zollern († April 13 (after 1300))

8. Friedrich VII. Count von Zollern († May 3rd (around 1309))
Father: Friedrich VI. Count of Zollern (* October 8, 1226; † May 4 (1297/1298))
Mother: Kunigunde von Baden († July 22, 1310)
Marriage 1: Euphemia von Hohenberg († June 14, 1333)
Children:

  • Fritzli I. Count of Zollern († after April 10, 1313)
  • Albrecht Count von Zollern († after December 22, 1320)

9. Friedrich VIII. Count von Zollern , called Ostertag (I.) († February 1, 1333)
Father: Friedrich VI. Count of Zollern (* before October 8, 1226; † May 4, 1297/1298)
Mother: Kunigunde von Baden († July 22, 1310)
Children:

  • Fritzli II. Count von Zollern († before March 16, 1339)
  • Friedrich IX. Count of Hohenzollern, called Schwarzgraf (I.) (* 1333; † before March 1, 1379), founded the Black Counts Line after the division in 1344
  • Friedrich Graf von Hohenzollern, known as the Strasbourg († December 16 [1365, 1368]), formerly canon of Strasbourg, returned to the secular class and married in 1343, founded the Strasbourg line after the division in 1344
  • Friedrich von Zollern, called Ostertag (II.) (* Before 1327 - † August 1, 1400), Canon of Augsburg and Johanniter

10. Frederick IX. Count of Hohenzollern , called Schwarzgraf (I) (* 1333; † before March 1, 1379)
Father: Friedrich VIII. Count of Zollern († February 1, 1333)
Marriage 1: Adelheid von Hohenberg-Wildberg († November 9 (after 1385))
Children:

  • Friedrich X. Count of Hohenzollern († June 24, 1412)
  • Friedrich Count von Hohenzollern († [January 8, 1407, February 16, 1410])
  • Adelheid Countess of Hohenzollern († after December 16, 1415)
  • Anna Countess of Hohenzollern († October 28 (before November 10, 1418))
  • Sophie von Hohenzollern († March 28 (after November 10, 1418))

11. Friedrich X. Count of Hohenzollern († June 24, 1412)
Father: Friedrich IX. Count of Hohenzollern (* 1333; † before March 1, 1379)
Mother: Adelheid von Hohenberg-Wildberg († November 9 (after 1385))
Marriage 1: Anna Countess von Hohenberg-Wildberg († 1421, Reuthin)

12. Friedrich XI. Count of Hohenzollern , called the Elder (* 1368; † November 26, 1401)
Father: Friedrich Graf von Hohenzollern († December 16 [1365, 1368])
Mother: Margarete von Hohenberg-Wildberg († January 28 (after 1343) )
Marriage 1: Adelheid Countess von Fürstenberg († March 19, 1413)
Children:

  • Friedrich XII. Count of Hohenzollern, called the Öttinger (* before 1401; † September 30, 1443)
  • Vain Friedrich I. Count of Hohenzollern (* around 1384; † 21/30 September 1439/1443)
  • Friedrich III. Bishop of Constance († July 30, 1438, Gottlieben)
  • Friedrich Count of Hohenzollern († before 1410)
  • Anna von Hohenzollern-Hechingen († October 28 (before 1418))
  • Friedrich Graf von Hohenzollern (before 1402; † before July 26, 1413)
  • Carl Friedrich Count of Hohenzollern († 1400?)

13. Friedrich XII. Count von Hohenzollern , called the Öttinger , ruled divided and quarreled with his brother (* before 1401; † September 30, 1443)
Father: Friedrich XI. Count of Hohenzollern (* before 1368; † November 26, 1401)
Mother: Adelheid Countess von Fürstenberg († March 19, 1413)
Marriage 1: Anna Countess von Sulz († [1438, 1440])

14. Eitel Friedrich I. Count of Hohenzollern (* around 1384; † 21/30 September 1439/1443)
Father: Friedrich XI. Count of Hohenzollern (* before 1368; † November 26, 1401)
Mother: Adelheid Countess von Fürstenberg († March 19, 1413)
Marriage 1: Ursula von Rhäzüns († February 17, 1477)
Children:

  • Jost Niklaus I. Count of Hohenzollern (* 1433; † February 9, 1488, Hohenzollern Castle)
  • Heinrich Graf von Hohenzollern (* [1434, September 8, 1436]; † 1458?)
  • Adelheid von Hohenzollern († February 8, 1502)

15. Jost Niklaus I. Graf von Hohenzollern (* 1433, † February 9, 1488, Burg Hohenzollern)
Father: Eitel Frederick I, Count of Hohenzollern (* 1384, † 21/30 September 1439/1443.)
Mother: Ursula von Rhäzüns († February 17, 1477)
marriage 1: (1448, Sigmaringen): Agnes Countess von Werdenberg (* 1434; † December 13, 1467)
children:

  • Friedrich II. Bishop of Augsburg (1451 - March 8, 1505)
  • Eitel Friedrich II. Von Hohenzollern (* 1452 - † June 18, 1512, Trier)
  • Friedrich Eitel Friedrich Count von Hohenzollern († June 27, 1490, near Montfort)
  • Friedrich Albrecht Count of Hohenzollern († July 16, 1483, near Utrecht)
  • Friedrich Johann von Hohenzollern († November 28, 1484, near Dendremonde)
  • Helene von Hohenzollern († November 11, 1514, Wurzach)
Eitel Friedrich II. And his wife, grave plate collegiate church (Hechingen)
Vain Friedrich III.

16. Eitel Friedrich II. Von Hohenzollern (* 1452; † June 18, 1512, Trier)
Father: Jost Niklaus I. Graf von Hohenzollern (* 1433; † February 9, 1488, Hohenzollern Castle)
Mother: Agnes Countess von Werdenberg (* 1434; † December 13, 1467)
Marriage 1: (February 17, 1482, Berlin): Magdalena von Brandenburg (* 1460, Tangermünde? † June 17, 1496, Hohenzollern Castle)
Children:

  • Franz Wolfgang Count of Hohenzollern (* 1483/1484; † June 16, 1517, Hechingen)
  • Wandelberta Countess of Hohenzollern (* around 1484, † after 1551, Pforzheim?)
  • Joachim Graf von Hohenzollern (* 1485 - † February 2, 1538, Hechingen)
  • Maria Salome von Hohenzollern (May 1, 1488 - August 4, 1548)
  • 3 sons of Hohenzollern ([1488, 1494]; †?)
  • 2 daughters of Hohenzollern ([1488, 1494]; †?)
  • Vain Friedrich III. Count of Hohenzollern (1494 - January 15, 1525, Pavia)
  • Anna of Hohenzollern (* 1496; † 1510)

17. Vain Friedrich III. Count of Hohenzollern (* 1494; † January 15, 1525, Pavia)
Father: Eitel Friedrich II. Von Hohenzollern (* 1452; † June 18, 1512, Trier)
Mother: Magdalena von Brandenburg (* 1460, Tangermünde?; † 17. June 1496, Hohenzollern Castle)
Marriage 1: Johanna von Witthem († 1536)
Children:

  • Karl I Count of Hohenzollern (* 1516, Brussels; † March 8, 1576, Sigmaringen)
  • Ferfried von Hohenzollern
  • Anna of Hohenzollern († after November 3, 1544)
  • Eitel Friedrich von Hohenzollern († July 15, 1544, near St. Dizier / France)
  • Margaretha of Hohenzollern
  • Felix Friedrich von Hohenzollern († January 30, 1550, Sigmaringen)
  • Johanna von Hohenzollern († June 23 (after 1550), Hohenzollern Castle)

18. Karl I. Graf von Hohenzollern , divided the county for his three sons (* 1516, Brussels; † March 8, 1576, Sigmaringen)
Father: Eitel Friedrich III. Count von Hohenzollern (* 1494; † January 15, 1525, Pavia)
Mother: Johanna von Witthem († 1536)
Marriage 1: (February 11, 1537, Pforzheim?): Anna von Baden-Durlach (* April 1512; † 1579)
Children:

  • Ferfried von Hohenzollern (* May 28, 1538, Sigmaringen; † July 14, 1556, Freiburg)
  • Maria Countess of Hohenzollern (* August 28, 1544; † December 13, 1611, Landsberg)
  • Eitel Friedrich I. (IV.) Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born September 7, 1545, Sigmaringen; † January 16, 1605, Hechingen)
  • Karl II. Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (born January 22, 1547 - † April 8, 1606, Sigmaringen)
  • Johanna von Hohenzollern (* June 23, 1543 - † February 22, 1604, Wallerstein)
  • Maria Jakoba Countess of Hohenzollern (* (25/27). July 1549, Sigmaringen; † 1578)
  • Leonore Countess of Hohenzollern (* February 15, 1551, † after October / November 1598)
  • Christoph Graf von Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (* March 20, 1552; † April 21, 1592, Haigerloch Castle)
  • Magdalena von Hohenzollern (* April 17, 1553; † after November / June 1571/1580?)
  • Joachim Graf zu Zollern (born June 21, 1554, Sigmaringen; † July 7, 1587, Cölln an der Spree)
  • Christina von Hohenzollern (* October 27, 1555; † 155?)
  • Amalie von Hohenzollern (born January 18, 1557; † 1603)
  • Kunigunde of Hohenzollern (* September 10, 1558; † 1595)

19. Eitel Friedrich I, Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* September 7, 1545, Sigmaringen; † January 16, 1605, Hechingen)
Father: Count Karl I of Hohenzollern (* 1516, Brussels; † March 8, 1576, Sigmaringen )
Mother: Anna von Baden-Durlach (* April 1512; † 1579)
Marriage 1: (June 22, 1568?, Sigmaringen): Veronika Countess von Ortenburg († March 23, 1573)
Marriage 2: (November 14, 1574, Meßkirch ): Sibylla von Zimmer (* January 8 / October 1558; † January 8 / October 1599)
Children:

  • Count Ernst of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* 1575; †?)
  • Johann Georg Graf and Prince of Hohenzollern (* 1577; † September 28, 1623, Hechingen)
  • Countess Maximilana von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* February 2, 1580, Hechingen; † July 24, 1633, Hechingen)
  • Countess Johanna von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* 1581, Hechingen; † April 26, 1634)
    Marriage 3: Johanna Countess von Eberstein in Neu-Eberstein († [April 22, 1633, September 22, 1637], Ranshofen)

20. Johann Georg Graf and Prince of Hohenzollern (* 1577; † 28 September 1623, Hechingen)
Father: Eitel Friedrich I. (IV.) Graf von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* 7 September 1545, Sigmaringen; † 16 January 1605 , Hechingen)
Mother: Sibylla von Zimmer (* January 8 / October 1558; † January 8 / October 1599)
Marriage 1: (October 11, 1598, Hechingen): Franziska Wild- and Rhine Countess zu Salm-Neufville (* around 1580 ; † December 14, 1619)
Children:

  • Karl Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* 1599; † 1599)
  • Sibylla Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen († August 8, 1621, Schleiden)
  • Eitel Friedrich II. (V) Prince of Hohenzollern (January 1601 - July 11, 1661, Issenheim (Isenheim), Alsace)
  • Franziska Katharina Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* 1598? - † June 16, 1665, Hohenems)
  • Johann Friedrich Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* 1602; † 1602)
  • Anna Maria Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born September 8, 1603; † August 23, 1652, Düsseldorf)
  • Georg Friedrich Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen († 1633, near Uttenweiler)
  • Maria Domina Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen († 1616, Prague)
  • Catharina Ursula Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* around 1610; † June 2, 1640)
  • Maria Renata Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen († January 12, 1637, Constance)
  • Maximiliane Waldburga Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* 1595 - † April 10, 1639, Vienna)
  • Leopold Friedrich Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen († June 19, 1659, Cologne)
  • Maria Anna Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* 1614 - 7 March 1670, Albi (Tarn))
  • Philipp Friedrich Christoph Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born June 24, 1616, Hechingen; † January 13/24, 1671, Hechingen)
  • ? von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* December 1, 1619, Hechingen; † December 1619, Hechingen)

21. Eitel Friedrich II. (V) Prince of Hohenzollern (* January 1601; † July 11, 1661, Issenheim (Isenheim), Alsace)
Father: Johann Georg Graf and Prince of Hohenzollern (* 1577; † September 28, 1623, Hechingen )
mother: Franziska game and Rhine Countess zu Salm-Neufville (* 1580, † December 14, 1619)
marriage 1: (March 19, 1630, Bautersen): Elisabeth Maria Countess of 's Heerenberg Marquise de Bergen op Zoom (born January 1613, Stevensweert; † October 29, 1671, Bergen op Zoom)
Children:

22. Philipp Christoph Friedrich Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (. * June 24, 1616, Hechingen, † 13/24 January 1671, Hechingen)
Father: Johann Georg Graf and Prince of Hohenzollern (* 1577, † September 28, 1623, Hechingen)
Mother: Franziska Wild- and Rhine Countess zu Salm-Neufville (* around 1580; † 14 December 1619)
Marriage 1: (12 November 1662, Baden-Baden): Maria Sidonia Margravine von Baden-Rodemachern (* 1635; † 15. August 1686, Hechingen)
Children:

  • Friedrich Wilhelm I, Prince of Hohenzollern (born September 20, 1663, Hechingen Castle; † November 14, 1735, Hechingen Castle)
  • Hermann Friedrich Graf zu Hohenzollern (born January 11, 1665, Hechingen Castle; † January 23, 1733, Freiburg im Breisgau)
  • Leopold Karl Friedrich Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born February 11, 1666, Hechingen Castle; † July 18, 1684, near Budapest)
  • Philipp Friedrich Meinrad Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born February 9, 1667, Hechingen Castle; † July 18, 1684, Hechingen Castle)
  • Maria Margaretha Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* May 22, 1668, Hechingen Castle; †?)
  • Karl Ferdinand Friedrich Dominikus Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* August 5, 1669 - † August 5, 1669, Hechingen Castle)
  • Maria Margaretha Sidonia Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born April 26, 1670, Hechingen Castle; † April 20, 1687, Strasbourg)
  • Franz Leopold Joachim Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* April 25, 1671, † April 25, 1671, Hechingen Castle)

23. Friedrich Wilhelm I, Prince of Hohenzollern (* September 20, 1663, Hechingen Castle; † November 14, 1735, Hechingen Castle)
Father: Philipp Friedrich Christoph Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* June 24, 1616, Hechingen; † 13 / January 24, 1671, Hechingen)
Mother: Maria Sidonia Margravine von Baden-Rodemachern (* 1635; † August 15, 1686, Hechingen)
Marriage 1: (June 22, 1687, Vienna): Maria Leopoldine Ludovika Countess of Sinzendorf (* 11. April 1666; † May 18, 1709, Vienna)
Children:

  • Friedrich Ludwig Prince of Hohenzollern (born September 1, 1688, Strasbourg; † June 4, 1750, Lindich Castle near Hechingen)
  • Princess Ludovica Friederike Ernestine von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* January 7, 1690, Ulm; † October 21, 1720, Steyr)
  • Charlotte Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born December 26, 1692 - † December 26, 1692)
  • Christine Eberhardine Friederike Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born March 3, 1695, Hechingen Castle; † December 2, 1754, Vienna)
  • Friedrich Karl Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (January 1697 - January 1697)
  • Sophie Johanna Friederike Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* February 16, 1698, Hechingen; † May 2, 1754, Münsterbilsen)
    Marriage 2: (September 7, 1710, Hechingen): Maximiliana Magdalena Antonia Freiin von Lützau (* July 11, 1690; † September 8, 1755, Hechingen)
    Children:
  • Eberhard Hermann Friedrich Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born September 13, 1711, Hechingen; † October 10, 1726, Hechingen)
  • Marie Ludovika Maximiliane Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born March 3, 1713, Hechingen; † November 19, 1743, Innsbruck)

24. Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Hohenzollern (born September 1, 1688, † June 4, 1750, Lindich Castle near Hechingen)
Father: Prince Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hohenzollern (born September 20, 1663, Hechingen Castle; † November 14 1735, Hechingen Castle)
Mother: Maria Leopoldine Ludovika Countess of Sinzendorf (born April 11, 1666; † May 18, 1709, Vienna)

25. Joseph Friedrich Wilhelm Franz Eugen Prince of Hohenzollern (born November 12, 1717, Bayreuth (baptized: November 12, 1717); † April 9, 1798, Hechingen)
Father: Hermann Friedrich Graf zu Hohenzollern (born January 11, 1665, castle Hechingen; † January 23, 1733, Freiburg im Breisgau)
Mother: Maria Josepha Theresia Countess zu Oettingen-Spielberg (* September 19, 1694, Oettingen; † August 20/21, 1778, Oettingen)
Marriage 1: (June 25, 1750, Vienna): Maria Theresia Rosalia Princess de Silva, Folch de Cardona, Eril et Borgia (* September 4, 1732, Vienna; † September 25, 1750, Vienna)
Marriage 2: (January 7, 1751, Hechingen): Maria Theresia Countess von Waldburg, Zeil (born January 26, 1732, Immenstadt; † January 17, 1802, Augsburg)
Children:

  • Meinrad Joseph Maria Friedrich Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born October 9, 1751, Hechingen; † September 28, 1752, Hechingen)
  • Joseph Wilhelm Franz Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* December 12, 1752, Hechingen; † July 7, 1754, Hechingen)
  • Maria Crescentia Josepha Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* September 4, 1754, Hechingen; † September 29, 1754)
  • Maria Theresia Josephine Karoline Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born December 3, 1756, Hechingen; † December 1756)
  • Hieronymus Joseph Karl Hereditary Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born April 18, 1758, Hechingen; † June 23, 1759, Hechingen)
  • Maria Antonia Anna Countess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born November 10, 1760, Hechingen; † July 25, 1797, Hechingen)
Hermann von Hohenzollern-Hechingen

26. Hermann Maria Friedrich Otto Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* July 30, 1751, Lockenhaus, Burgenland; † November 2, 1810, Hechingen Castle)
Father: Count Franz Xaver von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* July 18, 1720, Bayreuth; † March 14, 1765, Mouffrin, Province of Namur)
Mother: Anna Maria Bernhardina Countess von u. zu Hoensbroech (* May 8, 1729, Geulle; † September 26, 1798, Geulle Castle)
marriage 1: (November 18, 1773, Maastricht): Louise Julienne Constance Countess von Merode, Batenburg a. Oolen Marquise de Westerloo (* September 28, 1748, Merode; † November 14, 1774, Maastricht Castle)
Children:

  • Princess Luise Juliane Constantine von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* November 1, 1774, Maastricht; † May 7, 1846, Glogow (Glogau))
    Marriage 2: (February 15, 1775, Brussels): Maximilienne Albertine Jeanne Princesse de Gavre (* 30. November (1753/1755); † August 6, 1778, Bruxelles (Brussels, Brussels))
    Children:
  • Friedrich Hermann Otto Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* July 22, 1776, Namur; † September 13, 1838, Lindich Castle near Hechingen)
    Marriage 3: (June 12, 1779, Dagstuhl): Maria Antonia Monika Countess von Waldburg-Zeil-Wurzach (* June 6, 1753, Wurzach; † October 25, 1814, Vienna)
    Children:
  • Princess Maria Antonia Philippina of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* February 8, 1781, Dagstuhl; † December 25, 1831, The Hague)
  • Maria Theresia Franziska Princess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born August 11, 1784, Dagstuhl; † September 6, 1784, Dagstuhl)
  • Maria Franziska Theresia Karoline Princess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born January 19, 1786, Dagstuhl; † 1810)
  • Maria Maximiliane Antoinette Princess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born November 3, 1787, Wadern; † March 30, 1865, Baden near Vienna)
  • Josephine Princess of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* May 14, 1791, Hechingen; † March 25, 1856, Vienna)

27. Friedrich Hermann Otto Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* July 22, 1776, Namur; † September 13, 1838, Lindich Castle near Hechingen)
Father: Hermann Maria Friedrich Otto Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* July 30, 1751, Lockenhaus, Burgenland; † November 2, 1810, Hechingen Castle)
Mother: Maximilienne Albertine Jeanne Princesse de Gavre (* November 30 (1753/1755); † August 6, 1778, Bruxelles (Brussels))
Marriage 1: (April 26 1800, Prague): Luise Pauline Maria Biron Princess of Silesia-Sagan (* February 19, 1782, Jelgava (Mitau); † January 8, 1845, Vienna)
Children:

  • Friedrich Wilhelm II. Constantin Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* February 20, 1801, Sagan Castle; † September 3, 1869, Polish Castle Nettkow near Grünberg, Silesia)
Princess Eugenie

28. Friedrich Wilhelm II. Prince Constantin of Hohenzollern-Hechingen , the last prince (born February 16, 1801, Sagan Castle; † September 3, 1869, Polish Castle Nettkow near Grünberg, Silesia)
Father: Friedrich Hermann Otto Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (* July 22, 1776, Namur; † September 13, 1838, Lindich Castle near Hechingen)
Mother: Luise Pauline Maria Biron Princess of Silesia-Sagan (* February 19, 1782, Jelgava (Mitau); † January 8, 1845, Vienna )
Marriage 1: (May 22, 1826, Eichstädt): Eugénie de Beauharnais , German noble name as granddaughter of the Bavarian King Maximilian I. Joseph : Eugénie Hortense Auguste Napoléone Princess of Leuchtenberg (* December 23, 1808, Milan; † September 1, 1847 , Freudenstadt)
Morganatic marriage 2: (November 13, 1850, Görlitz) Amalie Sophie Karoline Adelheid Countess von Rothenburg (* July 13, 1832, Fürth near Nuremberg; † July 29, 1897, Wiesbaden)
Children (not befitting):

  • Friederike Wilhelmine Elisabeth Amalie Adelheid Countess von Rothenburg (born February 13, 1852, Löwenberg; † December 31, 1914, Dresden)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Karl Graf von Rothenburg (born February 19, 1856, Löwenberg; † August 23, 1912, Polish Nettkow, Silesia)
  • Wilhelm Friedrich Louis Gustav Graf von Rothenburg (born November 16, 1861, Schönbühl, Suisse (Svizzera, Switzerland); † February 17, 1929, Dresden)

When the Hechinger line died out, Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen called himself Prince of Hohenzollern , the restriction to Sigmaringen in the title no longer applies.

See also

literature

  • Anton-Heinrich Buckenmaier, Michael Hakenmüller: Friedrich-Wilhelm Constantin. The last prince . Glückler, Hechingen 2005
  • Casimir Bumiller: Studies on the social history of the county of Zollern in the late Middle Ages . Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1990
  • Martin Dressel: Count Eitelfriedrich II of Zollern (1452-1512) . Ges. Für Reichskammergerichtforschung, Wetzlar 1995
  • Karl Friedrich Eisele: Studies on the history of the county of Zollern and its neighbors . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1956
  • Michael Grüber, Thomas Lindner: The monastery church Hechingen-Stetten . Catholic rectory, Hechingen 1982
  • Otto Hintze : The Hohenzollern and their work 1415-1915. Verlag A. Steiger, Solingen 1982, ISBN 3-921564-18-2 .
  • Friedrich Hossfeld and Hans Vogel: The art monuments of Hohenzollern, first volume: Hechingen district . Holzinger, Hechingen 1939
  • Fritz Kallenberg (Ed.): Hohenzollern . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1996
  • Hans-Jörg Mauser , Rudolf Schatz (ed.): Sankt Luzen in Hechingen . Theiss, Stuttgart 1991
  • Meyers Konversationslexikon, Verlag des Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig and Vienna, fourth edition, 1885–1892, article Hohenzollern-Hechingen
  • Napoleon Bonaparte: My Life, Volume 4: I - The Emperor I . Mundus Verlag 1999
  • Wolfgang Neugebauer : The Hohenzollern. Beginnings, state state and monarchical autocracy until 1740 (Volume 1). Stuttgart, Berlin, Cologne 1996.
  • Anton Ritthaler : The Hohenzollern . Athenäum Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1961
  • Meinrad Schaab , Hansmartin Schwarzmaier (ed.) A. a .: Handbook of Baden-Württemberg History . Volume 2: The Territories in the Old Kingdom. Edited on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-91466-8 .
  • Rudolf M. von Stillfried-Alcantara: The Hohenzollern . Reprint publ. Leipzig, Holzminden 2006, reprint edition. the orig. Leipzig, Berger, ca.1890
  • Rudolph M. von Stillfried-Alcantara, Traugott Maercker: Hohenzoller research: Schwaebische research . Volume 1, Berlin 1847
  • Konrad A. Theiss and Hans Schleuning (eds.): The Zollernalbkreis , 2nd edition. Theiss, Stuttgart 1989
  • Wolfram Ulshöfer: The domiciliary rights of the Counts of Zollern . Mainz 1969
  • Andreas Zekorn (Hrsg.): The rule Schalksburg between Zollern and Württemberg . Bibliotheca Academica Verlag, Epfendorf 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anton Ritthaler, Die Hohenzollern , Athenäum Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1961, p. 7
  2. ↑ The original line of Zollern and the burgraves of Nuremberg-Zollern (PDF; 457 kB)
  3. ^ Wilfried Schöntag: Hohenzollern. In: Meinrad Schaab, Hansmartin Schwarzmaier (ed.) U. a .: Handbook of Baden-Württemberg History. Volume 2: The Territories in the Old Kingdom. Edited on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-91466-8 , p. 364.
  4. ^ Dieter Mertens, On the early history of the Lords of Württemberg. In: ZWLG 49 (1990), p. 93. See also Wilfried Schöntag: Hohenzollern. In: Meinrad Schaab, Hansmartin Schwarzmaier (ed.) U. a .: Handbook of Baden-Württemberg History. Volume 2: The Territories in the Old Kingdom. Edited on behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-608-91466-8 , p. 364.
  5. ^ Ludwig Schmid, History of the Counts of Zollern-Hohenberg and their County , Stuttgart 1862, p. 60
  6. ↑ Cf. Rudolph Stillfried-Alcántara, Traugott Maercker, Hohenzollerische Forschungen: Schwaebische Forschung , Volume 1, Berlin 1847, p. 136; Wilfried Schöntag, The battle of the Zollern and Habsburgs for the rule of Schalksburg. In: Andreas Zekorn, Peter Thaddäus Lang and Hans Schimpf-Reinhardt (eds.), Die Herrschaft Schalksburg between Zollern and Württemberg, Epfendorf 2005, p. 54. The Merckenberger already had co-regency in the southern part from 1282/83, especially over the Lordship of Schalksburg. Stillfried-Alcántara / Maercker only mention the date 1288 for the division of the estate.
  7. ↑ Rudolph M. von Stillfried-Alcantara, Traugott Maercker, Hohenzollerische Forschungen: Schwaebische Forschung , Volume 1, Berlin 1847, pp. 172 ff. In 1362 the two brothers also shared the inheritance of their uncle Friedrich Herr zu Hainburg, who was responsible for his nephews had acted as a carer for a while.
  8. ↑ Rudolph M. von Stillfried-Alcantara, Traugott Maercker, Hohenzollerische Forschungsungen: Schwaebische Forschung , Volume 1, Berlin 1847, p. 196
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