Franz Anton, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (2 December 1657 at

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– 14 October 1702 in

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), was a reigning Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.

Life

Franz Anton was the youngest son of Prince Meinrad I of

Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was a principality in Southwestern Germany. Its rulers belonged to the senior Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern. The Swabian Hohenzollerns were elevated to princes in 1623. The small sovereign state with the cap ...

(1605-1681) from his marriage to Anna Marie (1613-1682), the daughter of Baron Ferdinand of Törring at Seefeld. He served in the imperial army and reached the rank of Field Marshal-Lieutenant. Under the terms of the family's elevation to the rank of ''

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'', his eldest brother inherited the principality of

and Franz Anton only inherited the County of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch. In 1692, Emperor Leopold I again confirmed that the Princes of Swabina branch of the

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held the rank of

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s, he explicitly made an exception for the Haigerloch line.''Allgemeine deutsche Real-Encyklopädie für die gebildeten Stände: Conversations-Lexikon'', vol. 8, p. 18, Brockhaus, 1853,
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Franz Anton fell in the

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, during the

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Marriage and issue

Franz Anton married on 5 February 1687 to Anna Maria Eusebia (1670-1716), the daughter of Count Anton Eusebius of Königsegg-Aulendorf. The couple had the following children: * Ferdinand Leopold Anton (1692-1750), clergy and prime minister of

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* Anna Maria (1694-1732), married in 1714 to Ludwig Xaver Fugger, Count of Kirchberg and Weissenhorn (1688-1746), a descendent of the Fugger Family. * Maria Franziska (1697-1767), married in 1720 to Count Franz Hugo of Koenigsegg-Rothfels (1698-1772) * Franz Christoph Anton (1699-1767), clergy and prime minister of

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References

* Gustav Schilling: ''Geschichte des Hauses Hohenzollern in genealogisch fortlaufenden Biographien aller seiner Regenten von den ältesten bis auf die neuesten Zeiten, nach Urkunden und andern authentischen Quellen'', Fleischer, Leipzig, 1843, p. 228 ff and 27
p. 228ff online
{{DEFAULTSORT:Franz Anton, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch Counts of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch House of Hohenzollern 1657 births 1702 deaths 17th-century German people

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