Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (20 June 1762 – 17 October 1831) was

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of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Anton Aloys was the son of Prince Karl Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1724–1785) and his wife Johanna (1727–1787), daughter of Count Franz Wilhelm of Hohenzollern-Berg. Anton Aloys was born during the

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and grew up mostly in ' Bergh-'s-Heerenberg on his mother's Dutch estate. His father participated in the War, so his mother lived there with her brother. Later he was educated at the universities of

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and

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. He married on 13 August 1782 at Schloss Dhaun, Amalie Zephyrine (1760–1841), the daughter of Philipp Joseph, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg. In 1785 he succeeded his father, and two years later after his mother's death inherited her rich Dutch estates through the county of Bergh-s'Heerenberg. In 1789 the

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took place in the

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, which Anton Aloys followed intently due to his possessions there. At the 1790 coronation of Emperor Leopold II of the House of Habsburg-Lotharingia, Anton Aloys held the office of Lord Chamberlain. At the outbreak of the

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, Anton Aloys fled to Vienna, and returned again in 1796. France received from Germany the territories on the left Rhine, so Anton Aloys lost all his Dutch estates in 1802. As compensation he received the territory of Glatt in the northern Black Forest, and the old monasteries of Inzigkofen, Beuron and Holzen.

Issue

He married

Princess Amalie Zephyrine of Salm-Kyrburg Amalie Zephyrine of Salm-Kyrburg (french: Amélie Zéphyrine de Salm-Kyrbourg; Paris, 6 March 1760 – Sigmaringen, 17 October 1841), was a Germans, German noblewoman by birth member of the House of Salm in the Salm-Kyrburg branch and through h ...

in 1782 and was the father of: *

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. He was the paternal great-grandfather of Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, who became King

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Ancestry

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1762 births 1831 deaths Princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen {{noble-stub