Meinrad II. (Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen)

Meinrad II. Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (born November 1, 1673 in Sigmaringen , † October 20, 1715 in Sigmaringen) was Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen from 1689 to 1715 .

Life

Meinrad was the son of Prince Maximilian von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1636–1689) from his marriage to Maria Clara (1635–1715), daughter of Count Albert von Bergh s'Heerenberg . His father usually stayed in Vienna with his family , as he was employed by Austria. In addition, the French invaded Swabia repeatedly, which made the stay in Sigmaringen seem unwise. Meinrad followed his father as regent on August 13, 1689 when he was still a minor and was initially under the tutelage of his mother and his uncle Franz Anton von Hohenzollern-Haigerloch . The prince studied at the University of Ingolstadt between 1678 and 1679 and, like his father, embarked on a military career in the Imperial Austrian service.

He fought in 1683 in the Battle of Kahlenberg in the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna , in the Hungarian Revolutionary War and in 1697 in the Palatinate War of Succession against France. The latter war was significant because of the location of the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, also out of personal interest. In the War of the Spanish Succession , Meinrad served under Prince von Baden in the Netherlands in 1702 . This was followed, among other things, in 1703 in Bavaria and 1704 in Hungary . The prince's children lived in Sigmaringen at that time. Since the French were advancing to Swabia, the children were brought to Vienna for security reasons and returned to Sigmaringen after the Rastatt peace treaty in 1714.

In 1692 Emperor Leopold I raised the princely rank of the Swabian Hohenzollern beyond primogeniture . In other words, through the first award, the prince's dignity was only linked to the primogeniture or direct succession. In 1695, the prince concluded the Hohenzollern-Brandenburg inheritance treaty with the electoral house of Brandenburg . After that, when the Swabian line died out, the state was to fall to Brandenburg. Emperor Leopold I also agreed to the agreement. Meinrad married Johanna Katharina (1678–1759), daughter of Count Johann Anton I von Montfort-Tettnang , on November 22nd, 1700 in Sigmaringen . His uncle Franz Anton von Hohenzollern-Haigerloch fell in the battle of Friedlingen in 1702 , so that the Haigerloch area fell to Meinrad . In 1708 Meinrad built the iron smelter in Laucherthal , today's Zollern company based in Sigmaringendorf-Laucherthal.

Joseph Friedrich Ernst succeeded his father as prince in 1715. His brother Franz Wilhelm was adopted in 1712 by Count Oswald von Bergh 's-Heerenberg , the brother of his grandmother Maria Clara , and designated as his sole heir.

progeny

Meinrad II had the following offspring from his marriage to Johanna Katharina:

• Joseph Friedrich Ernst (1702–1769), Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

⚭ 1. 1722 Princess Marie von Oettingen-Spielberg (1703–1737)

⚭ 2. 1738 Countess Judith von Closen (1718–1743)

⚭ 3. 1743 Countess Maria Theresia von Waldburg-Trauchburg (1696–1761)

• Maria Anna (1707–1783)
• Franz Wilhelm (1704–1737), Count of Hohenzollern-Berg

⚭ 1724 Countess Maria Katharina von Waldburg zu Zeil and Trauchburg (1702–1739)

• Karl Wolfgang (1708–1709)

See also

• Tribe list of the Hohenzollern

literature

• Otto Hintze : The Hohenzollern and their work 1415-1915. Verlag A. Steiger, Solingen 1982, ISBN 3-921564-18-2 .
• 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. Fleischer, Leipzig 1843, p. 279ff.
• Günter Schmitt : Sigmaringen . In: Günter Schmitt: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb. Volume 3: Danube Valley. Hiking and discovering between Sigmaringen and Tuttlingen. Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5 , pp. 41-62.

predecessor	Office	successor
Maximilian	Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 1689–1715	Joseph Friedrich Ernst