Philipp (Hohenzollern-Hechingen)

Philipp Christoph Friedrich von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (born June 24, 1616 in Hechingen , † January 24, 1671 in Hechingen) was the third prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen .

Life

Philipp was the youngest son of Prince Johann Georg von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1577–1623) from his marriage to Franziska († 1619), daughter of Count Friedrich I von Salm , Wild and Rhine Count in Neufville. As a younger son, Philipp was appointed to the clergy and was canon in Cologne and Strasbourg. He was considered a learned lawyer and headed an imperial embassy to Spain.

When his eldest brother Eitel Friedrich II died in 1661, he succeeded him as Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen. Pope Alexander VII allowed Philip to return to the laity for a payment of 4,000 scudi . Since only the firstborn son was granted the title of prince when the line was raised to the imperial prince, Emperor Leopold I extended the corresponding rights to Philip because of the services of the House of Hechingen to the imperial family. Also with papal dispensation , the now 46-year-old married Princess Marie Sidonie (1635–1686), daughter of Margrave Hermann Fortunat von Baden-Rodemachern, on November 12, 1662 in Baden-Baden .

During the years of his reign the prince was frail and ultimately completely paralyzed. The country, economically and financially ruined after the Thirty Years' War, recovered as a result of Philip's modest court keeping and the funds from his wife's marriage property. When Philip died, industry, agriculture, trade as well as church and school systems were in bloom again.

progeny

From his marriage Philipp had the following children:

• Friedrich Wilhelm (1663–1735), Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

⚭ 1. 1687 Countess Maria Leopoldine von Sinzendorf (1666–1709)

⚭ 2. 1710 Freiin Maximiliane Magdalene von Lützau (1690–1755)

• Hermann Friedrich (1665–1733), Imperial Field Marshal General

⚭ 1. 1704 Princess Eleonore Magdalene of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1673–1711)

⚭ 2. 1714 Countess Josepha von Oettingen-Spielberg (1694–1738)

• Leopold Karl (1666–1684), killed in the siege of Ofen
• Philipp Friedrich (* / † 1667)
• Maria Margareta (* / † 1668)
• Karl Ferdinand (* / † 1669)
• Sidonia (1670–1687)
• Franz Karl (* / † 1671)

literature

• 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. 233 ff.
• Eduard Vehse: History of the German courts since the Reformation , Volume 39-40, Hoffmann and Campe, 1856, p. 66

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Georg	Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen 1661–1671	Friedrich Wilhelm