Friedrich VIII, Count of Zollern, nicknamed ''Easter Sunday'' (d. 1333) was a Count of
Hohenzollern
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.
Life
Friedrich was the younger son of the Count
Friedrich VI of Hohenzollern from his marriage to Kunigunde (1265–1310), the daughter of Margrave
Rudolf I
Rudolf I (1 May 1218 – 15 July 1291) was the first King of Germany from the House of Habsburg. The first of the count-kings of Germany, he reigned from 1273 until his death.
Rudolf's election marked the end of the Great Interregnum which h ...
of Baden. After his elder brother
Friedrich VII died in 1309, Frederik VIII ruled Zollern jointly with his nephew Fritz I. After Fritz I died in 1313, Friedrich VIII ruled alone.
Friedrich VIII founded the
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 ...
line when he divided the county with his brother.
[Alexander von Daniels: ''Handbuch der deutschen Reichs und Staatenrechsgeschichte'', vol. 2, part 3, Laupp & Siebeck, 1863, p. 513] In the power conflict of his time, Friedrich VIII supported the Austrian side, and later sided with Emperor
Louis IV.
Issue
The name of Friedrich's wife has not been preserved. He had the following children:
* Fritz II (died between 1355 and 1359), Count of Zollern
*
Friedrich IX (died between 1377 and 1379), Count of Hohenzollern, married in 1341 to Countess Adelheid of Hohenberg (d. after 1385)
* Friedrich "Easter Sunday" II (d. 1395), prior of the
Order of Saint John
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*
Friedrich of Strasbourg Friedrich may refer to:
Names
*Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich''
*Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich''
Other
*Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' ...
(d. 1365), married in 1343 to Countess Margaret of Hohenberg-Wildberg, parents of:
**
Frederick XI, Count of Hohenzollern
Friedrich XI, Count of Hohenzollern (died 26 November 1401), nicknamed ''Friedrich the Elder'' was a German nobleman. He was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and a ruling Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.
Life
Friedrich was the younger son ...
.
Ancestry
See also
*
House 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, Prince-elector, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzol ...
Footnotes
References
* Count Rudolph Stillfried-Alcántara and Traugott Maercker: ''Hohenzollerische Forschungen'', C. Reimarus, 1847, p. 172 ff
Counts of Zollern
Counts of Hohenzollern
13th-century births
1333 deaths
14th-century German nobility
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