Maximilian I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Maximilian I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Born	(1636-01-20)20 January 1636
Died	13 August 1689(1689-08-13) (aged 53) Sigmaringen
Noble family	House of Hohenzollern
Spouse(s)	Maria Clara of Berg-'s-Heerenberg
Father	Meinrad I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Mother	Anna Marie of Törring at Seefeld

Maximilian I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (20 January 1636 – 13 August 1689, in Sigmaringen) was a German nobleman. He was the third ruling Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen; he ruled from 1681 until his death.

Life

Maximilian was the son of Prince Meinrad I (1605-1681) from his marriage to Anna Marie (1613-1682), daughter of Ferdinand Baron of Törring at Seefeld. He was named after Elector Maximilian I of Bavaria, whom his father was serving at the time of his birth.

He joined the Imperial army, together with his younger brother Francis Anthony. He commanded a Dragoon regiment and, like his cousins in the Hohenzollern-Hechingen line, fought under Emperor Leopold I in the Fourth Austro-Turkish War. During the Franco-Dutch War, he commanded the imperial army on the Rhine. After the Peace of Nijmegen of 1675, Maximilian returned to Vienna.

Maximilian married Maria Clara in Boxmeer on 12 January 1666. She was the daughter of Count Albert of Berg-'s-Heerenberg. After the death of her brother Oswald III in 1712, she inherited the County of 's-Heerenberg, which thus fell to the House of Hohenzollern. Among his Dutch possessions were the Lordships of Boxmeer, Bergh, Diksmuide, Gendringen, Etten, Wisch, Pannerden and Millingen.

In 1681, his father died. Maximilian divided the inheritance with his brother. Francis Anthony received the County of Haigerloch; Maximilian received the original County of Sigmaringen. He initiated various construction projects in the town of Sigmaringen, among them an expansion of Sigmaringen Castle.

Marriage and issue

From his marriage to Maria Clara, the following children:

• Anna Maria (1666-1668)
• Maria Magdalena Clara (1668-1725), a nun in Gnadenthal Abbey
• Cleopha Maria Theresa (1669-1731), a nun in Buchau Abbey
• Meinrad II Charles Anthony (1673-1715), Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, married in 1700 to Countess Johanna Katharina von Montfort (1678-1759)
• Francis Albert Oswald (1676-1748), a canon in Cologne
• Francis Henry (1678-1731), a canon in Cologne and Augsburg
• Charles Anthony (1679-1684)
• Anthony Sidonius (1681-1719), fell in battle, married in 1712 to Countess Maria Josepha of Verdenberg and Namiest (1687-1745)
• John Francis Anthony (1683-1733) fell in battle, married:
  1. in 1712 to Maria Barbara Everhardt of Lightemhaag
  2. Maria Antonia of Frauenberg (b. 1705)
• Maximilian Froben Maria (1685-1734), a monk
• Charles (1687-1689)
• Friederike Christiane Maria (1688-1745), married in 1718 to Sebastian, Count of Montfort-Tettnang (1684-1728)

Ancestry

Ancestors of Maximilian I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

16. Karl I, Count of Hohenzollern (= 20) 8. Charles II, Count of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 17. Anna of Baden-Durlach (= 21) 4. Johann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 18. Frederick V, Count of Oettingen-Wallerstein 9. Countess Euphrosyne of Oettingen-Wallerstein 19. Countess Eufrosine of Oettingen-Wallerstein 2. Meinrad I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 20. Karl I, Count of Hohenzollern (= 16) 10. Eitel Friedrich IV, Count of Hohenzollern 21. Anna of Baden-Durlach (= 17) 5. Countess Johanna of Hohenzollern-Hechingen 22. Count Froben Christoph of Zimmern 11. Countess Sibylle of Zimmern 23. Kunigunde of Eberstein 1. Maximilian I, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen 24. Baron Georg VI of Törring-Seefeld 12. Baron Eustach of Törring-Seefeld 25. Helene of Almb 6. Count Ferdinand I of Törring at Seefeld 26. Count Conrad of Bemelberg 13. Countess Catharina of Bemelberg-Hohenburg 27. Catherine of Helfenstein 3. Baroness Anna Marie of Törring at Seefeld 28. Count Otto Heinrich I of Schwarzenberg 14. Count Wolfgang Jacob of Schwarzenberg 29. Elisabeth of Puchberg 7. Countess Renata of Schwarzenberg 30. Markus Fugger 15. Anna Sibylla of Fugger-Nordendorff 31. Countess Sibylla of Eberstein

See also

• House of Hohenzollern

References

• Otto Hintze (1982), Die Hohenzollern und ihr Werk 1415-1915. (in German), Solingen: Verlag A. Steiger, ISBN 3921564182
• 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, Fleischer, Leipzig, 1843, p. 247 ff, Online
• Günter Schmitt: Sigmaringen, in: Günter Schmitt: Burgenführer Schwäbische Alb, vol. 3: Donautal. Wandern und entdecken zwischen Sigmaringen und Tuttlingen, Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach, 1990, ISBN 3-924489-50-5, p. 41–62.

External links

• Entry at Geneall.net