Karl I. (Hohenzollern)

Coat of arms "Carl Graff von Zollern zu Hohezollen" (square the Zollern coat of arms and the scepter as a symbol of the treasurer)

Karl I von Hohenzollern (* 1516 in Brussels ; † March 18, 1576 Sigmaringen Castle ) was Count von Hohenzollern from the House of Hohenzollern from 1525 to 1575 . He was Imperial Chamberlain and Imperial Court Council President of the Holy Roman Empire .

Life

Legacy of the Counts of Hohenzollern in 1575 (copy of the original)

Karl was the eldest son of Count Eitel Friedrich III. von Hohenzollern (1494–1525) from his marriage to Johanna van Witthem († 1544), daughter of Philipp, Herr von Beersel and Bautershem .

Emperor Karl V was a personal friend of his father and his godfather, which is why he was named Karl. Likewise was Eleanor of Castile , Queen of Portugal respectively Spain his godmother. The good relations with Charles V enabled Charles to hold high positions in the empire at an early stage. Charles V financed an education in Madrid from the age of 12 .

The count was Reich Chamberlain and later President of the Imperial Court Council. The Reichshofrat in Vienna was one of the two highest courts in the Holy Roman Empire. Karl acquired the position of President shortly after he came of age. In 1534 he received the county of Sigmaringen and the county of Veringen to reign from Emperor Charles V and in 1535 as an imperial fief . Sigmaringen previously belonged to the Counts of Werdenberg . In the Pfullendorf contract of February 15, 1540, Karl compared himself with Count Friedrich von Fürstenberg , the heir of the allodial property , who sold him parts of the allod in Sigmaringen, Laiz and Inzigkofen .

Karl still had the undivided possessions. Since 1558, with the death of his Hohenberg cousin Jobst Nikolaus II, the property had been in his hands undivided. The possessions included the counties of Zollern , Sigmaringen, Veringen, Böhringen, Haigerloch and Wehrstein . After Karl's death in 1576, the property was divided among his sons and four lines were created.

The 1st Zollerische Hausgesetz of 1575 determined the introduction of the primogeniture . The eldest son Eitel Friedrich IV received Hohenzollern-Hechingen , the ancestral home of the family. Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen with Böhringen fell to Charles II , Hohenzollern-Haigerloch to Christoph . The disinherited son Joachim von Zollern founded a fourth line. Hohenzollern-Haigerloch became extinct in 1634, and the properties were united with Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen in accordance with the house law of 1575. The line of Joachim von Zollern died out again in 1622 with his son Joachim Georg.

Marriage and children

In 1537 Karl married Princess Anna (1512–1579), daughter of Margrave Ernst von Baden-Durlach , with whom he had the following children:

• Ferfried (1538–1556),
• Marie (1544–1611), wife of Schweikhard von Helfenstein (1539–1599), President of the Imperial Court of Justice, imperial governor of Tyrol, author, publicist and promoter of the Catholic Reform
• Eitel Friedrich IV. (1545–1605), Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen,
• Charles II (1547–1606), Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
• Johanna (1548-1604)
• Marie Jakobäa (1549–1578), wife of Leonhard V. von Harrach (1542–1597)
• Eleanor (1551–1598)
• Christoph (1552–1592), Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch
• Magdalena (1553–1571), nun in wood
• Joachim (1554–1587), Count of Zollern
• Kunigunde (1558–1595), nun in Inzigkofen

See also

• Tribe list of the Hohenzollern

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pfullendorfer contract of February 15, 1540, Baden-Württemberg State Archives

literature

• Otto Hintze : The Hohenzollern and their work 1415-1915. Verlag A. Steiger, Solingen 1982, ISBN 3-921564-18-2 .
• EG Johler: History, geography and local history of the sovereign German principalities of Hohenzollern, Hechingen and Sigmaringen. Stettin'sche Buchhandlung, Ulm 1824. (online)
• Wolfgang Neugebauer : The Hohenzollern. Beginnings, state state and monarchical autocracy until 1740. Volume 1, Stuttgart / Berlin / Cologne 1996
• 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. (online)
• Eduard Schwarzmann: Karl I, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Veringen and Margravine Anna of Baden and Hochberg. Sigmaringen 1859. (online)
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Hohenzollern, Karl (I.) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 9th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 217 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• The family tree ( memento from July 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Fürst von Hohenzollern Group

predecessor	Office	successor
Vain Friedrich III.	Count of Hohenzollern 1525–1576	Eitel Friedrich IV. (Hohenzollern-Hechingen) Karl II. (Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) Christoph (Hohenzollern-Haigerloch)
Jobst Niklaus II.	Count of Haigerloch 1558–1576	Eitel Friedrich IV. (Hohenzollern-Hechingen) Karl II. (Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) Christoph (Hohenzollern-Haigerloch)