Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896–1978)
Appearance
Prince Sigismund of Prussia | |||||
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Born | Kiel, Province of Schleswig-Holstein, German Empire | 27 November 1896||||
Died | 14 November 1978 Puntarenas, Costa Rica | (aged 81)||||
Burial | 21 November 1978 Esparza, Costa Rica | ||||
Spouse |
Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg
(m. 1919) | ||||
Issue | Princess Barbara Prince Alfred | ||||
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House | Hohenzollern | ||||
Father | Prince Henry of Prussia | ||||
Mother | Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine |
Prussian Royalty |
House of Hohenzollern |
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Frederick III |
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Prince William Victor Charles Augustus Henry Sigismund of Prussia (
hemophilia common among her descendants.[2]
Life
Marriage and issue
On 11 July 1919 at Hemmelmark, he married Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (4 March 1899 – 16 February 1989), the eldest daughter of Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. They had two children:[3][1]
- Barbara Irene Adelheid Viktoria Elisabeth Bathildis (2 August 1920 – 31 May 1994), married Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg
- Alfred Friedrich Ernst Heinrich Conrad (17 August 1924 – 3 June 2013)
Costa Rica
Prior to emigrating from Europe to Central America, he served as a marine officer.[2]
In 1927, Sigismund and his family resettled in Costa Rica [4] three years after his son Alfred (1924–2013) had been born in Guatemala. He planned to engage in banana and coffee planting on land he owned there.[4]
In 1957, Sigismund returned to Germany to meet with
Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna. In 1972, he once again reaffirmed his belief when talking to BBC journalists Anthony Summers
and Tom Mangold, who were writing the File on the Tsar.
Sigismund died in Puntarenas on 14 November 1978.[2]
Honours and awards
Prince Sigismund received the following awards:[5]
Order of the Black Eagle, Knight (Kingdom of Prussia)
Order of the Red Eagle, Grand Cross with Crown (Kingdom of Prussia)
Order of the Prussian Crown, Grand Cross (Kingdom of Prussia)
Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, Grand Commander (Kingdom of Prussia)
- House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen)
Ancestry
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See also
- House of Hohenzollern
- Family tree of the German monarchs
References
- ^ ISBN 91-630-5964-9
- ^ ISBN 2-9507974-3-1
- ^ "preussen.de". Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-06-26.
- ^ a b "Prussian Prince Moves to Costa Rica", The New York Times, Colon, 22 December 1927
- ^ Handbuch über den Königlich Preußischen Hof und Staat (1918), Genealogy p.3