Eitel Friedrich III, Count of Hohenzollern (1494 – 15 January 1525 in

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) was Count of

County 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, Brandenbu ...

from 1512 until his death.

Life

Eitel Friedrich was a son of Count Eitel Friedrich II (1452–1512) from his marriage to Magdalena (1460 -1496), the daughter of Margrave Friedrich of Altmark. Eitel Friedrich succeeded his father as Count of Hohenzollern in 1512. In 1515, he married Johanna of Witthem (d. 1544), the daughter of Philip, Lord of Beersel and Boutersem. Eitel Friedrich III was top councillor and great chamberlain to Emperor Maximilian I, which demonstrates that he, like his father before him, had excellent relations with the Habsburgs. He was also Imperial Archchamberlain and captain of the Lordship of Hohenberg. He died in Pavia in 1525; he may have been poisoned. He was in Pavia to serve as captain of the

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regiment. He was buried in the Basilica of San Pietro in Ciel d'Oro of

Issue

His marriage Eitel Friedrich had the following children: * Karl I (1516–1576), his successor as Count of Hohenzollern, married in 1537 to Margravine Anna of Baden-Durlach (1512–1579) * Ferfried (died young) * Anna (d. 1574) * Margaret (died young) * Eitel Friedrich, (d. 1544), fell during the Siege of St. Dizier * Felix Friedrich (d. 1550) * Johanna (d. 1550), married in 1539 to Baron James III, Seneschal of Waldburg-Trauchburg (1512–1542)

Ancestry

References

* Wolfgang Neugebauer: ''Die Hohenzollern. Anfänge, Landesstaat und monarchische Autokratie bis 1740'', vol. 1, Stuttgart, Berlin and Cologne, 1996

External links

Entry at rootsweb.ancestry.com

Counts of Hohenzollern House of Hohenzollern 1494 births 1525 deaths 16th-century German people {{Germany-count-stub