Frederick VIII, Count of Zollern
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Friedrich VIII, Count of Zollern | |
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Died | 1333 |
Noble family | House of Hohenzollern |
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Father | Friedrich VI, Count of Zollern |
Mother | Kunigunde of Baden |
Friedrich VIII, Count of Zollern, nicknamed Easter Sunday (d. 1333) was a Count of Hohenzollern.
Life[]
Friedrich was the younger son of the Count Friedrich VI of Hohenzollern from his marriage to Kunigunde (1265–1310), the daughter of Margrave Rudolf I of Baden. After his elder brother Friedrich VII died in 1309, Frederik VIII ruled Zollern jointly with his nephew Fritz I. After Fritz I died in 1313, Friedrich VIII ruled alone.
Friedrich VIII founded the Hohenzollern line when he divided the county with his brother.[1] In the power conflict of his time, Friedrich VIII supported the Austrian side, and later sided with Emperor Louis IV.
Issue[]
The name of Friedrich's wife has not been preserved. He had the following children:
- Fritz II (died between 1355 and 1359), Count of Zollern
- Friedrich IX (died between 1377 and 1379), Count of Hohenzollern, married in 1341 to Countess Adelheid of Hohenberg (d. after 1385)
- Friedrich "Easter Sunday" II (d. 1395), prior of the Order of Saint John
- (d. 1365), married in 1343 to Countess Margaret of Hohenberg-Wildberg, parents of:
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See also[]
Footnotes[]
- ^ Alexander von Daniels: Handbuch der deutschen Reichs und Staatenrechsgeschichte, vol. 2, part 3, Laupp & Siebeck, 1863, p. 513
References[]
- Count Rudolph Stillfried-Alcántara and Traugott Maercker: Hohenzollerische Forschungen, C. Reimarus, 1847, p. 172 ff
Categories:
- Counts of Zollern
- Counts of Hohenzollern
- 13th-century births
- 1333 deaths
- 14th-century German nobility
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