Frederick VI, Count Of Zollern
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Friedrich VI, Count of Zollern (died: 4 May 1298), also known as ''Friedrich the Knight'', or ''Friedrich the Elder'', was a Count of
Hohenzollern The House of Hohenzollern (, ; , ; ) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German Empire, and Romania. ...


Life

Friedrich was a son of Count Friedrich V of Hohenzollern from his marriage to Udilhild of Dillingen. He succeeded his father around 1288 as Count of Zollern. Later that year, he divided his inheritance with his younger brother Friedrich the Younger. Friedrich VI kept the County of Zollern, while his younger brother received the Lordships of Schalksburg and Mühlheim. In 1296 Friedrich sold some land to the Bebenhausen Abbey.


Marriage and issue

In 1281, Friedrich married Kunigunde (1265–1310), the daughter of Margrave Rudolf I of Baden, with whom he had the following children: * Albrecht * Kunigunde (died between 1380 and 1384),
abbess An abbess (Latin: ''abbatissa'') is the female superior of a community of nuns in an abbey. Description In the Catholic Church (both the Latin Church and Eastern Catholic), Eastern Orthodox, Coptic, Lutheran and Anglican abbeys, the mod ...
of Lichtenthal Abbey * Friedrich VII (d. 1309), Count of Zollern : married in 1298 to Countess Eufemia of Hohenberg (d. 1333) * Friedrich VIII "Easter Sunday" (d. 1333), Count of Hohenzollern * Sophia (died after 1300), a nun at Stetten Abbey * Friedrich († 1361)


See also

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House of Hohenzollern The House of Hohenzollern (, ; , ; ) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, Prince-elector, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern Castle, Hohenzollern, Margraviate of Bran ...


References

* Ottmar F. Schönhuth: ''Die Burgen, Klöster, Kirchen und Kapellen Württembergs und der Preußisch-Hohenzollern'schen Landestheile mit ihren Geschichten, Sagen und Mährchen'', Fischhaber, 1860, p. 292 * Graf Rudolph Stillfried-Alcántara, Traugott Maercker: ''Hohenzollerische Forschungen'', C. Reimarus, 1847, p. 169 ff


External links

* http://thepeerage.com/p10881.htm#i108805 Counts of Hohenzollern Counts of Zollern House of Hohenzollern 13th-century births 1298 deaths Year of birth unknown 13th-century German nobility {{Germany-noble-stub