Karl I of Hohenzollern (1516 in
Brussels – 18 March 1576 at
Sigmaringen Castle) was Count of
Hohenzollern
The House of Hohenzollern (, also , german: Haus Hohenzollern, , ro, Casa de Hohenzollern) is a German royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenb ...
from 1525 to 1575. He was Imperial Archchamberlain and chairman of the
Aulic Council.
Life
Karl was the eldest son of the Count
Eitel Friedrich III of Hohenzollern (1494–1525) from his marriage to Johanna van Witthem (d. 1544), daughter of Philip, Lord of
Beersel
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and
Boutersem
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. Karl was Imperial Archchamberlain and later chairman of the
Aulic Council. In 1534, he received the Counties of Sigmaringen and Veringen as imperial
fiefs from Emperor
Karl V
Charles V, french: Charles Quint, it, Carlo V, nl, Karel V, ca, Carles V, la, Carolus V (24 February 1500 – 21 September 1558) was Holy Roman Emperor and Archduke of Austria from 1519 to 1556, King of Spain ( Castile and Aragon) fro ...
.
Karl married in 1537 with Anna (1512–1579), a daughter of Margrave
Ernst of Baden-Durlach, with whom he had several children, among them:
* Ferfried (1538–1556),
* Marie (1544–1611),
*
Eitel Friedrich IV (1545–1605), later the first Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
*
Karl II (1547–1606), later the first Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
* Johanna (1548–1604),
* Jacobea Marie (1549–1578) wife of Leonard V of Harrach (1542–1597),
* Eleanor (1551–1598),
*
Christoph Christoph is a male given name and surname. It is a German variant of Christopher.
Notable people with the given name Christoph
* Christoph Bach (1613–1661), German musician
* Christoph Büchel (born 1966), Swiss artist
* Christoph Dientzenho ...
(1552–1592), later the first Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch
* Magdalena (1553–1571), a nun in Holz,
*
Joachim
Joachim (; ''Yəhōyāqīm'', "he whom Yahweh has set up"; ; ) was, according to Christian tradition, the husband of Saint Anne and the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Biblical apocryphal ...
(1554–1587), titular Count of Hohenzollern
* Kunigunde (1558–1595), a
nun at
Inzigkofen Abbey
He had held the family possessions in a single hand since the Counts of
Haigerloch
Haigerloch is a town in the north-western part of the Swabian Alb in Germany.
Geography Geographical location
Haigerloch lies at between 430 and 550 metres elevation in the valley of the Eyach river, which forms two loops in a steep shelly limest ...
had died out with the death of his cousin Jobst Nicholas II in 1558. After his death in 1576, however, they were divided. His eldest son, Eitel Friedrich IV became the founder of the
Hohenzollern-Hechingen line. His second son, Karl II, founded the
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. The third son, Christoph, founded the
Hohenzollern-Haigerloch line, which died out in 1634, with Christoph's share falling to Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. The youngest son, Joachim, received the county of Zollern. This line was the first to die out, when Joachim's son Joachim Georg died in 1602.
Ancestry
External links
Hohenzollern family treeon the site of the Hohenzollern family business
Counts of Hohenzollern
House of Hohenzollern
1516 births
1576 deaths
16th-century German people
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