Frederick XI, Count of Hohenzollern

Friedrich XI, Count of Hohenzollern
Died	(1401-11-26)26 November 1401
Buried	Stetten Abbey
Noble family	House of Hohenzollern
Spouse(s)	Adelheid of Fürstenberg-Zindelstein
Issue	Friedrich XII Eitel Friedrich I Anna Friedrich, canon in Strasbourg Friedrich, bishop of Constance Friedrich, monk
Father	Friedrich of Strasbourg
Mother	Margaret of Hohenburg-Wildenburg

Friedrich XI, Count of Hohenzollern (died 26 November 1401), nicknamed Friedrich the Elder was a German nobleman. He was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and a ruling Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.

Life

Friedrich was the younger son of Count Friedrich of Strasbourg, from his marriage to Margaret, the daughter of Count Burchard V of Hohenberg-Wildenberg.

After the death of Friedrich IX, Friedrich XI became the senior member of the House of Hohenzollern. As such, he was the Vogt of Stetten Abbey.

He was a member of the Lion League, which joined the Swabian League of Cities in 1382. When the latter clashed with Count Eberhard II of Württemberg, Friedrich XI managed to break off the services he had promised to Count Eberhard.

In 1388, he regained the town of Hechingen, which bishop Friedrich of Strasbourg had held. After a town fire in 1401, he granted the town a letter of liberty.

Friedrich XI died in 1401, and was buried in the Hohenzollern crypt in Stetten Abbey.

Marriage and issue

Before 12 January 1377, Friedrich XI married Adelheid (d. 1413), a daughter of Count Hugo of Fürstenberg-Zindelstein. Her brother Johann was the last Count of Fürstenberg-Haslah. Johann died childless in the Battle of Sempach of 1386, and Friedrich XI inherited Bräunlingen from him, which gave rise to a lengthy dispute with the main line of the Fürstenberg family.

From his marriage with Adelheid, Friedrich had the following children:

• Friedrich XII (d. 1443), Count of Hohenzollern, married in 1407 Anna of Sulz (d. 1438)
• Eitel Friedrich I (d. 1439), Count of Hohenzollern, married in 1432 to Ursula Razüns (d. 1477). He had issue:
  • Jobst Nikolaus I, Count of Hohenzollern
• Anna, a nun
• Friedrich, a canon in Strasbourg
• Friedrich (d. 1436), Bishop of Constance as Friedrich III
• Friedrich, a monk

Ancestry

Ancestors of Frederick XI, Count of Hohenzollern

16. Frederick V, Count of Zollern 8. Frederick VI, Count of Zollern 17. Udilhild of Dillingen 4. Frederick VIII, Count of Zollern 18. Rudolf I, Margrave of Baden-Baden 9. Kunigunde of Baden 19. Kunigunde of Eberstein 2. Count Friedrich of Strasbourg 5. (?) 1. Frederick XI, Count of Hohenzollern 24. Count Burchard V of Hohenberg 12. Count Burchard VI of Hohenberg-Nagold-Haigerloch 25. Mechtild von Tübingen 6. Count Burchard V. of Hohenberg-Wildberg 26. Hugo IV of Tübingen-Blauberen 13. Liutgard von Tübingen 27. Beatrix von Eberstein 3. Countess Margaret of Hohenburg-Wildenburg 7. Adelheid of Vaihingen (?)

References

• Count Rudolph Stillfried-Alcántara and Traugott Maercker: Hohenzollerische Forschungen, C. Reimarus, 1847, p. 203 ff.
• E. G. Johler: Geschichte, Land- und Ortskunde der souverainen teutschen Fürstenthümer Hohenzollern Hechingen und Sigmaringen, Stettin'sche Buchhandlung, Ulm, 1824, Online
• 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, Online