Christoph, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch
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Christoph, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch | |
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Born | Haigerloch | 20 March 1552
Died | 21 April 1592 Haigerloch | (aged 40)
Noble family | House of Hohenzollern |
Spouse(s) | Catherine of Welsperg |
Father | Karl I, Count of Hohenzollern |
Mother | Anna of Baden-Durlach |
Count Christoph of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (20 March 1552 in Haigerloch – 21 April 1592, Haigerloch) was the first Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.
Life
Christoph was the third surviving son of Count
When Karl I died in 1576, the County of Hohenzollern was divided into
Christoph cared intensely about the administration of his country. He soon began an extensive reconstruction of his Haigerloch Castle; he felt that the medieval castle was not representative for a ruler of his era. However, he died before the work could be completed. Christoph and his wife together founded the Holy Trinity Church in Haigerloch.
When Count Christoph Stanislaus of Nellenburg died in 1591, Christoph inherited the Lordship of Wehrstein with the castle of the same name and the village of Dettensee. Christoph inherited because Christoph Stanislaus's brother had been married to a countess of Hohenzollern. The other claimant was Anna Maria of Wolfentein, who had had a failed marriage with a citizen of Bregenz named Fezenn. Christoph and his brothers discredited her by claiming she had been a prostitute.
Marriage and issue
Christoph married Catherine (died after 1608), a daughter of Baron Christoph of Welsperg, in Sigmaringen in 1577. Christoph and Catherine had the following children:
- Johann Christoph (1586–1620), Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch
- married in 1608 to Countess Marie Elisabeth of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1592-1659)
- Karl (1588–1634), Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch
- married in 1618 to Countess Rosamunde of Ortenburg (d. 1636)
- Gwendolyn Marie Salome (1578–1647), a nun in the Inzigkofen Abbey
- Anna Dorothea († 1647), Prioress at Inzigkofen Abbey
- Marie Sidonia, a nun at Söflingen Abbey
- Jakobe (died after 1607)
References
- Württembergische Jahrbücher für vaterländische Geschichte, Geographie, Statistik und Topographie, Aue, 1837, p. 115 (Online)
- Gustav Schilling: Geschichte des Hauses Hohenzollern, in genealogisch fortlaufenden Biographien aller seiner Regenten von den ältesten bis auf die neuesten Zeiten, nach Urkunden und andern authentischen Quellen, F. Fleischer, 1843, p. 309 ff
- Fidelis Baur: Geschichte der hohenzollernschen Staaten Hechingen und Sigmaringen, Bucher und Liener, 1834, p. 7 ff
External links
- Family tree at the site of the Group Prince of Hohenzollern