Count Kraft VI of Hohenlohe-Weikersheim (1452 in
Neuenstein – 2 August 1503 in
Neuenstein) was
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Mainz
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Speyer
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His parents were Kraft V, Count of
Hohenlohe-Weikersheim
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and Margaret of
Oettingen
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.
Kraft VI married on 26 February 1476 Helene of
Württemberg
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(d. 19 February 1506), daughter of
Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg
Ulrich V of Württemberg called ''"der Vielgeliebte"'' (the much loved) (1413Detlev Schwennicke: ''Europaische Stammtafeln'', New Series, Vol. I/2, Tafel 256. – 1 September 1480, in Leonberg), Count of Württemberg. He was the younger son of Cou ...
. They had the following children:
* Albert III (1478–1551)
* Margaret (1480–1522)
* George I (1488–1551)
* Elisabeth (1495–1540)
Counts of Hohenlohe
House of Hohenlohe
1452 births
1503 deaths
15th-century German people
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