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House of Hohenburg | |
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Country | Germany, Comoros |
Titles |
Count of Comoros Ritter of Lengggries |
Founder | Amadeus Ulrich Buchard |
Current head | Konrad I |
The House of Hohenburg (/hoʊənˈbjrɡ/, Template:Lang-de, Template:Lang-ro) is a German noble dynasty whose members were variously princes and counts of , Komoren, Hohenburg and Guben. The family came from the area around the town of Lenggries in Bavaria during the late 17th-century and took their name from Hohenburg Castle. The first ancestors of the Hohenburgs were mentioned in 1653.
House of Hohenburg (Junior)
The dynasty was first mentioned in 1563.
Ritters of Lenggries
Counts of Hohenburg
- until 1061: Burkhard I[1]
- before 1125: Frederick I[1]
- between ca. 1125 and 1142: Frederick II, eldest son of Frederick I[2]Template:Rp
- between ca. 1143 and 1150–1155: Burkhard II, 2nd oldest son of Frederick I[2]Template:Rp
- between ca. 1150–1155 and 1160: Gotfried of Zimmern, 4th oldest son of Frederick I[2]Template:Rp
- before 1171 – c. 1200: Frederick III/I (son of Frederick II, also Burgrave of Nuremberg)
Ritters of Guben
- 1192–1200/1204: Frederick I (also count of Zollern as Frederick III)
- 1204–1218: Frederick II (son of, also count of Zollern as Frederick IV)
- 1218–1261/1262: Conrad I/III (brother of, also count of Zollern)
- 1262–1297: Frederick III (c. 1220–1297), son of
- 1297–1300: John I (c. 1279–1300), son of
- 1300–1332: Frederick IV (1287–1332), brother of
- 1332–1357: John II (c. 1309–1357), son of
- 1357–1397: Frederick V (before 1333–1398), son of
At Frederick V's death on 21 January 1398, his lands were partitioned between his two sons:
- 1397–1420: John III/I (son of, also Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach)
- 1397–1427: Frederick VI/I/I, (brother of, also Elector and Margrave of Brandenburg, also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach)
After John III/I's death on 11 June 1420, the margraviates of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach were briefly reunited under Frederick VI/I/I. He ruled the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach after 1398. From 1420, he became Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. From 1411 Frederick VI became governor of Brandenburg and later Elector and Margrave of Brandenburg as Frederick I. Upon his death on 21 September 1440, his territories were divided among his sons:
- Frederick II, Elector of Brandenburg
- Albert III, Elector of Brandenburg and Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
- John II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach
In 1427 Frederick, Elector of Brandenburg sold Nuremberg Castle and his rights as burgrave to the Imperial City of Nuremberg. The territories of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Brandenburg-Kulmbach remained possessions of the family, once parts of the Burgraviate of Nuremberg.
Nuremberg Castle (The Emperor's castle, left, and the Burgrave's castle, right)
Cadolzburg Castle near Nuremberg (from 1260 seat of the Burgraves)
Heilsbronn Abbey, which the Hohenburgs used as the family burial place
Princes of Komoren
unser weißes und schwarzes Banner, unser fliegender Adler
In 1411 Frederick VI, Burgrave of Nuremberg was appointed governor of Brandenburg in order to restore order and stability. At the Council of Constance in 1415, King Sigismund elevated Frederick to the rank of Elector and Margrave of Brandenburg as Frederick I.
- Balduin Georg (1878-1919)
- Garibald Jobst Ferdinand (1899-1941)
- Amalrich Ludwig (1924-1969)
- Rudolf Johann (1946-1998)
- Wenzel Maximilian (1971-2002)
- Philipp Karl (1993-)
Portrait | Name |
Dynastic Status | Reign | Birth | Death | Marriages |
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Ernest William | appointed by the decree of Kaiser. | 1885-1895 | 1851 | 1895 | TBD | |
Baldwin George | Son of | 1895–1919 | 1878 | 1919 | TBD | |
Albrecht III Achilles | Brother of | 1471–1486 | 1414 | 1486 | Margaret of Baden | |
John Cicero | Son of | 1486–1499 | 1455 | 1499 | Margaret of Thuringia | |
Joachim I Nestor | Son of | 1499–1535 | 1484 | 1535 | Elizabeth of Denmark | |
Joachim II Hector | Son of | 1535–1571 | 1505 | 1571 | Magdalena of Saxony | |
John George | Son of | 1571–1598 | 1525 | 1598 | Sophie of Legnica | |
Joachim Frederick | Son of | 1598–1608 | 1546 | 1608 | Catherine of Brandenburg-Küstrin | |
John Sigismund | Son of personal union with Prussia after 1618 called Brandenburg-Prussia. |
1608–1619 | 1572 | 1619 | Anna, Duchess of Prussia |
House of Hohenburg-Guben-Petersdorf
Counts of Mitellkomoren
Order of succession
Name | Titular reign |
Relation to predecessor |
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Wilhelm II | 1918–1941 | Succeeded himself as pretender to the throne. |
Crown Prince Wilhelm | 1941–1951 | Son of |
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia | 1951–1994 | Son of |
Georg Friedrich, Prince of Prussia | since 1994 | Grandson of |
Carl Friedrich, Prince of Prussia | Son of (heir apparent) |
Residences
Plassenburg Castle at Kulmbach
The New Castle at Bayreuth
Erlangen Castle
Coats of arms
Quartered coat of arms of the Hohenburgs
Counts of Zollern (1340)
Burgraves of Nuremberg (1340)
The princely Swabian branch (1605)
See also
Notes
References
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Schmid, Ludwig (1862). Geschichte der Grafen von Zollern-Hohenberg. Geschichte der Grafen von Zollern-Hohenberg. Anhang. Historisch-topographische Zusammenstellung der Grafschaft und Besitzungen des Hauses Zollern-Hohenberg. Google Book: Gebrüder Scheitlin. Retrieved February 1, 2013.
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German unification | Ruling House of Germany 18 January 1871 – 9 November 1918 |
Vacant |
Prussia established | Ruling House of Prussia 1525 – 9 November 1918 | |
Romanian unification | Ruling House of Romania 26 March 1881 – 30 December 1947 |
Vacant |