HOHENZOLLERN

 

 

 

Part 1

 

The earliest proven ancestor of the house of Hohenzollern seems to have been one Friedrich I Graf von Zollern who m.Udilhild, probably dau of Egino Gf von Urach von Urach and had issue:

 

1a) Friedrich II (d.after 1145; m.NN

 

1b) Friedrich I (III), 1192 Burggraf von Nürnberg, Gf von Zollern (d.after 1 Oct 1200); m.Sophie von Raabs, widow and heiress of Konrad, the last of the old Burggraves of Nürnberg; they left two sons, ancestors of the two branches of the family still extant; it seems uncertain which was the elder son, but genealogies usually state that Friedrich was the elder

 

1c) Friedrich IV 1205 Gf von Zollern, 1210/14 Bggf von Nürnberg (ca 1188-1251/5); m.Elisabeth N; for their descendants see Part 4

 

2c) Konrad I 1208 Bggf von Nürnberg, 1204/27 Gf von Zollern (d.1260/1); m.NN (possibly a dau.of Friedrich II Gf von Leiningen u.Saarbrücken)

 

1d) Friedrich III, 1246 Bggf von Nürnberg u.Abenberg, 1290 Pfandhr zu Plassenburg u.Kulmbach, 1292 zu Windsheim (d.14 Aug 1297); m.1st by 10 May 1251 Elisabeth (d.18 Dec 1272), dau of Otto I von Andechs, Duke von Meranien; m.2nd by 10 Apr 1280 Helene (d.12 Jun 1309; bur Nürnberg), dau of Duke Albrecht I of Saxony, and widow of Duke Heinrich III of Breslau

 

[by 1st m.]:

 

1e) Johann (murdered nr Nürnberg 1261/2; bur St.Jakob, Nürnberg)

 

2e) Siegmund (murdered nr Nürnberg 1261/2; bur St.Jakob, Nürnberg)

 

3e) Marie (d.ca 1298; bur Kl Heilsbronn); m.by 28 Jul 1263 Ludwig Gf von Oettingen (d.9 Nov 1313)

 

4e) Adelheid (d.ca 1307); m.by 25 Mar 1273 Heinrich Gf von Castell (d.1307)

 

5e) Elisabeth (d.3 Feb 1288); m.1st by 17 Apr 1280 Eberhard von Schlüsselberg (d.3 May 1284); m.2nd before 13 Mar 1285 Gottfried von Hohenlohe (d.1289/90)

 

[by 2nd m.]:

 

6e) Johann I, 1296 Bggf von Nürnberg (d.25 Feb 1300); m.after 3 Jan 1297 Agnes (d.1335), dau of Ldgve Heinrich I of Hesse

 

7e) Friedrich IV, 1300 Bggf von Nürnberg, 1326/45 zu Gründlach, 1331 in Dornberg u.Ansbach, 1328 Imperial Vicar-General in Tuscany (1287-19 May 1332; bur Heilsbronn); m.by 2 Aug 1307 Margarete (d.1348; bur Kl Birkenfeld), dau of Albert von Görz

 

1f) Johann II, 1332 Bggf von Nürnberg (d.7 Oct 1357; bur Heilsbronn); m.by 3 Mar 1333 Elisabeth (b.by 1318-d.1377/91), dau of Berthold Gf von Henneberg-Schleusingen

 

1g) Friedrich V, 1357 Bggf von Nürnberg, 1363 raised to Imperial Fürstenstand, 1364 zu Markt Schwabach, 1368 zu Gunzenhausen, 1373 zu Hof u.dem Regnitzland, 1378 zu Uffenheim (d.Plassenburg 21 Jan 1398; bur Heilsbronn); m.7 Sep 1350 Elisabeth (Wartburg 22 Nov 1329-21 Apr 1375), dau of Mgve Friedrich of Meissen

 

1h) Johann III, 1397 Bggf von Nürnberg, 1399 zu Crailsheim (ca 1369-Plassenburg 11 Jun 1420; bur Heilsbronn); m.ca 1381 Margaret of Luxemburg (29 Sep 1373-4 Jun 1410; bur Ofen), dau of Emperor Karl IV

 

1i) Elisabeth (1391/2-29 Apr 1429; bur Stuttgart Stiftskirche); m.by 22 Nov 1412 Eberhard Gf von Württemberg (d.16 May 1417)

 

2h) Friedrich VI (I), 1397 Bggf von Nürnberg, 1415 Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg, sold Burg Nürnberg to the burghers of Nürnberg 1427 (1371-Schloß Kadolzburg 20 Sep 1440; bur Kl Heilsbronn); in 1411 Emperor Sigismund pawned the Mark of Brandenburg to him; unable to redeem it, the Emperor installed Friedrich as Friedrich I, Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg; m.Schongau am Lech 18 Sep 1401 Elisabeth (1383-Ansbach Schloß 13 Nov 1442), dau of Duke Friedrich of Bavaria-Landshut; for their descendants see Part 2

 

3h) Elisabeth (1358-Heidelberg 26 Jun 1411; bur Heiliggeist, Heidelberg); m.Amberg 1374 Ruprecht, Pfgf, Duke of Bavaria, German king (d.18 May 1410)

 

4h) Beatrix (d.Perchtoldsdorf 10 Jun 1414; bur St.Stephan, Vienna); m.Vienna 4 Mar 1375 Duke Albrecht III of Austria (d.29 Aug 1395)

 

5h) Margarete (d.Gudensberg 15 Jan 1406; bur Marburg Elisabethkirche); m.Kulmbach 15 Oct 1383 Ldgve Hermann II of Hesse (d.10 Jun 1413)

 

6h) Anna, a nun in Seusslitz (b.ca 1364, d.after 10 May 1392)

 

7h) Katharina, Abbess of St.Klara, Hof (d.19 Nov 1409; bur Hof)

 

8h) Agnes, Abbess of St.Klara, Hof (d.1429/32)

 

2g) Margarete (d.19 Sep 1377); m.Landshut 14 Feb 1359 Duke Stefan I of Bavaria-Landshut (d.19 May 1375)

 

3g) Elisabeth (d.ca 1383; bur Kl Wilhering); m.1360 Ulrich Gf von Schaunberg (d.Schaunberg 6 Mar 1373)

 

4g) Anna, Abbess of Birkenfeld and of Himmelskron (d.27 Jul 1383; bur Himmelskron)

 

5g) Adelheid, a nun in Birkenfeld 1361/70

 

2f) Konrad III, 1332 Bggf von Nürnberg (d.3 Apr 1334); m.Irmgard (d.11 May 1372), dau of Kraft von Hohenlohe (and later wife of Gerlach Gf von Nassau-Wiesbaden)

 

3f) Friedrich, Bp of Regensburg 1340/65 (d.1365)

 

4f) Albrecht "der Schöne", 1341 Bggf von Nürnberg (d.4 Apr 1361; bur Heilsbronn); m.1348 Sophie, heiress of Schmalkalden (d.5 May 1372), dau of Heinrich Gf von Henneberg

 

1g) Johann (d.by 22 Dec 1357)

 

2g) Albrecht (1358-1360/1)

 

3g) Margarete, heiress of Hildburghausen, Heldburg. Ermershausen and Ummerstadt (1359-1389/91; bur Reinhardsbrunn); m.22 Jul 1374 Balthasar, Ldgve of Thuringia (d.Wartburg 18 May 1406)

 

4g) Anna (ca 1360-ca 1413); m.by 13 Sep 1374 Duke Swantibor of Pomerania (d.21 Jun 1413)

 

5f) Berthold, Bp of Eichstädt 1354/65, Chancellor to Emperor Karl IV (1320-Willibaldsburg 16 Sep 1365; bur Heilsbronn)

 

6f) Helene (d.after 1374); m.1st ca 1321 Otto Gf von Orlamünde; m.2nd 1341/6 Heinrich VII Gf von Schwarzburg

 

7f) Anna (d.after 1340); m.Ulrich I Ldgf von Leuchtenberg (d.27 Nov 1334; bur Kl Walderbach)

 

8f) Margarete (d.after 13 Nov 1382; bur Klarenthal); m.1332 Adolf I Gf von Nassau-Wiesbaden (d.17 Jan 1370)

 

9f) Agnes (d.after 1363); m.1st 1336 Berthold von Neuffen Gf von Marstetten u.Graisbach (d.1342); m.2nd 1343/4 Albrecht Gf von Werdenberg u.Heiligenberg (d.1371/3)

 

10f) Katharina (d.after 11 Mar 1373; m.1338 Eberhard Gf von Wertheim (d.24 Aug 1373; bur Kl Bronnbach)

 

8e) Anna (d.after 1355; bur Nürnberg Barfüsserkirche); m.before 3 Jan 1297 Emicho Gf von Nassau-Hadamar (d.7 Jun 1334)

 

2d) Konrad II Bggf von Nürnberg u.Abenberg (d.6 Jul 1314; bur St.Nikolaus, Spalt); m.1st Agnes von Hohenlohe; m.2nd Agnes (fl 1296), dau of Gebhard Gf von Hirschberg (fl 1296, dsp)

 

1e) Friedrich (d.23 Mar 1303)

 

2e) Konrad (d.17 Jul 1304)

 

3e) Gottfried (d.after 17 Jul 1318)

 

4e) Leukardis (d.after 1313); m.by 27 Jul 1273 Konrad von Schlüsselberg

 

5e) Agnes, a nun at Schäftersheim 1313

 

6e) Agnes (d.after 1318); m.by 1294 Friedrich Gf von Truhendingen (d.15 Apr 1332)

 

3d) Konrad (ca 1201-ca 1264)

 

4d) Adelheid (d.19 Oct 1304; bur Nürnberg); m.by 8 Jul 1241 Rapoto Gf von Ortenberg Pfgf von Bayern (d.4 Jun 1248)

 

5d) Sophie (d.after 16 Jun 1276); m.Marquard von Arnsberg-Heideck

 

6d) Elisabeth (d.14 Nov 1255); m.Gerhard III Ldgf von Leuchtenberg

 

2b) Bertold Gf von Zollern fl 1160/94

 

2a) Burchard (d.1150/5); m.NN

 

1b) Burchard III 1193 Gf von Zollern, Gf von Hohenberg (d.after 4 Jul 1193); m.NN

 

1c) Burchard IV Gf von Zollern u.Hohenberg (d.by 1225), was probably father of:

 

1d) Burchard V Gf von Hohenberg (k.by lightning 1253; bur Kirchberg); m.Mechtild, au of Rudolf Pfgf von Tübingen

 

1e) Albert II Gf von Hohenberg, Gf von Rotenburg 1264, Gf von Haigerloch 1272/87 (k.a.Oberndorf 17 Apr 1298; bur Kirchberg); m.1st NN; m.2nd Hohenfriedingen 19 Jul 1282 Margareta (d.1296; bur Kirchberg), dau o Heinrich Gf von Freiburg und Fürstenberg; m.3rd Ursula von Oettingen (d.1308; bur Ehingen)

 

[by 1st m.]:

 

1f) Albert III Gf von Hohenberg (d.after 25 Nov 1304); m.Markgröningen 1284 NN

 

2f) Agnes; m.after 1282 Albert von Tirol (d.1292)

 

3f) Margareta fl 1295; m.28 Oct 1288 Heinrich IV Mkgf von Burgau

 

4f) Mechtild (d.by 26 Apr 1315; m.Rottenburg 18 Dec 1291 Ulrich von Württemberg (d.1 Nov 1315)

 

[by 1st or 2nd m.]:

 

5f) Rudolf I Gf von Hohenberg Hr von Triberg (d.11 Jan 1336; bur Ehingen); m.1st Agnes (d.Jun 1317), dau of Hugo Gf von Werdenberg; m.2nd Apr 1318 Irmengard (d.17 Jun 1329; bur Ehingen), dau of Eberhard Gf von Württemberg; m.3rd Elisabeth, dau of Simon Gf von Sponheim (and later wife of Ldgve Ludwig II of Hesse; all children were by 1st marriage

 

1g) Albrecht, Elekt of Konstanz 1334/5, papal chaplain 1342/5, Elekt of Würzburg 1345/9, Bp of Freising 1349/59 (d.Stein am Rhein 25 Apr 1359; bur St.Moritz, Rottenburg)

 

2g) Rudolf II Gf von Hohenberg (d.26 Feb 1335; bur Ehingen); m.Margareta (d.Rottenburg 30 Jan 1370), dau of Emicho Gf von Nassau-Hadamar

 

1h) Rudolf III Gf von Hohenberg (d.1389); m.before 12 Oct 1360 Ita, dau of Friedrich Gf von Toggenburg (and later wife of Heinrich Gf von Werdenberg); Rudolf III sold the Gfschaft Hohenberg in 1381 to Duke Leopold of Austria

 

1i) Margareta (d.26 Feb 1419); m.1st 1384 (div by 1391) Mgve Bernhard I of Baden (d.5 May 1431); m.2nd by 20 Apr 1391 Hermann Gf von Sulz Ldgf im Klettgau (d.1431)

 

2h) Margareta (d.by 24 Aug 1366); m.by 25 Apr 1343 Ludwig VIII Gf zu Oettingen (d.1378)

 

3h) Agnes (d.5 Jun 1366); m.by 3 Nov 1349 Konrad IV, Duke von Teck (d.5 Sep 1352)

 

3g) Hugo Gf von Hohenberg (d.26 May 1354); m.1333 Ursula von Pfirt, Frau von Belfort, etc (d.after 1367), dau of Ulrich Gf von Pfirt (and later wife of Wilhelm Gf von Montfort)

 

1h) Ursula fl 1367/80; m.1st before 9 Feb 1367 Wilhelm III Gf von Montfort in Bregenz (d.Vienna 19 Oct 1368); m.2nd ca 1370 Eberhard IV von Lupfen Ldgf von Stühlingen

 

4g) Heinrich Gf von Hohenberg (k.a.12 May 1352); m.by 25 Jun 1337 Agnes (d.after 24 Jun 1348), dau of Heinrich Gf von Schaunberg

 

5g) dau; m.Heinrich von Hornstein

 

6f) Albert IV Gf von Hohenberg, a priest in Bonndorf 1317

 

7f) ?Adelheid von Haigerloch (d.23 Feb 1333; bur Lilienfeld); m.by 28 Mar 1317 Konrad I Gf von Schaunberg (d.1353)

 

[by 2nd m.]:

 

8f) a dau., a nun in Kirchberg 1291

 

2e) Burchard VI Gf von Hohenberg, Gf von Nagold, Gf von Haigerloch (d.24 Jul 1318; bur Reuthin); m.1st NN; m.2nd by 1277 Liutgard von Tübingen, heiress of Horb (d.13 Nov 1309; bur Reuthin), dau of Hugo Pfgf von Tübingen

 

1f) [probably by 2nd m.] Otto I, in Nagold (d.12 Jul 1299); m.Maria, dau of Erkinger von Magenheim

 

1g) Burchard VI, in Nagold, zu ½ Magenheim (d.by 1342); m.by 14 Feb 1316 Agnes, dau of Konrad von Veihingen

 

1h) Otto II gt von Nagold (d.1379/85); m.1st Kunigunde (d.after 3 Mar 1358), dau of Rudolf Gf von Wertheim; m.2nd by 13 Jul 1371 Irmengard (d.after 24 Oct 1379), dau of Heinrich Gf von Werdenberg, and widow of Heinrich Gf von Fürstenberg; in 1363 he sold Nagold to the Grafen von Württemberg; all children were by 1st marriage

 

1i) Rudolf V (d.after 13 Jul 1383)

 

2i) Burchard IX, zu Nagold; m.Verena, dau of Johann von Habsburg-Laufenburg, and widow of Filippo Gonzaga of Mantua

 

1j) Rudolf VI (d.1409/22); m.by 24 Nov 1402 Margareta, dau of Sigmund von Tierstein, and widow of N v.der Altenklingen

 

1k) Sigmund (d.by 1440; bur Reuthin 1486); m.by 31 Oct 1459 Ursula (d.17 Feb 1477; bur Stetten), dau of Heinrich von Räzüns, and widow of Eitel Friedrich Gf von Hohenzollern

 

1l) Peter (d.27 Oct 1448)

 

2l) Rudolf fl 1458

 

3l) Margareta (d.Speckfeld 22 Jun 1475; bur Komburg); m.Jan 1466 Georg I Schenk von Limpurg (murdered 10 May 1475)

 

3l) Apollonia, Abbess of Königsfelden 1472/92

 

2k) Verena, a nun at Reuthin; bur there

 

2j) Anna (d.as prioress of Reuthin 1421; m.1st Friedrich X Gf von Hohenzollern (d.1412); m.2d 1413 Konrad VII Gf von Kirchberg (d.17 Jan 1417)

 

3i) Magdalena; m.Jakob I Truchsess von Waldburg zu Trauchburg (d.5 May 1460)

 

4i) Sophie, Abbess of Kitzingen 1401/8

 

2h) Burchard VII gt von Nagold fl 1348/53

 

3h) Hugo fl 1381/1411

 

4h) Agnes, Prioress of Reuthin 1379/1423

 

5h) Mechtild, a nun in Reuthin 1352

 

2g) Mechtild; m.before 3 Aug 1320 Wolfrad VI Gf von Veringen

 

2f) [probably by 2nd m.] Burchard V, in Wildenberg (d.1353/5; m.NN

 

1g) Burchard VIII, Hr zu Wildberg (d.1377/81); m.by 9 Apr 1353 Anna, dau of Gottfried von Brauneck

 

1h) Konrad II, a priest in Sulz 1377

 

2h) Burchard, a canon in Trier and Würzburg (d.ca 1393)

 

2g) Konrad I, in Altensteig (d.6 Sep 1356); m.by 2 Sep 1355 Margareta (d.after 6 Dec 1398), dau of Peter von Hewen (and later wife of Stephan von Gundelfingen)

 

1h) Rudolf IV (d.1387/97)

 

1i) a child, fl 1397

 

2h) a dau., a nun in Reuthin (d.by 19 May 1377)

 

3g) Otto III, a priest in Horb (d.after 13 Dec 1377)

 

4g) Adelheid (d.after 1385); m.before 27 Apr 1341 Friedrich Gf von Hohenzollern

 

5g) Margareta; m.before 1 Feb 1343 Friedrich Gf von Zollern

 

6g) Adelheid, a nun at Reuthin (d.1377/81)

 

7g) Anna, a nun at Reuthin (d.after 18 Dec 1397)

 

3f) [probably by 1st m.] Kunigunde fl 1307/23; m.1st Rudolf II von Hewen; m.2nd before 15 Dec 1307 Jakob von Wart

 

3e) Ulrich (d.by 1281)

 

1f) Agnes (d.14 Apr 1310; bur Kl Tennenbach); m.Heinrich III Mkgf von Hachberg (d.1350)

 

4e) Mathilde, Abbess of Wald 1283

 

2b) Friedrich Gf von Zollern Gf von Hohenberg (d.after 11 Apr 1195)