Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern (born 1811)
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Karl Anton | |||||
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Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | |||||
Reign | 27 August 1848 – 7 December 1849 | ||||
Predecessor | Karl | ||||
Successor | Annexed by Prussia | ||||
Prince of Hohenzollern | |||||
Tenure | 3 September 1869 – 2 June 1885 | ||||
Successor | Leopold | ||||
Born | Krauchenwies, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | 7 September 1811||||
Died | 2 June 1885 Sigmaringen, German Empire | (aged 73)||||
Spouse | Princess Josephine of Baden | ||||
Issue | Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern Stephanie, Queen of Portugal Carol I, King of Romania Prince Anthony Prince Frederick Princess Marie, Countess of Flanders | ||||
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House | Hohenzollern | ||||
Father | Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen | ||||
Mother | Marie Antoinette Murat |
Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen[1] (German: Karl Anton Joachim Zephyrinus Friedrich Meinrad Fürst von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen[1]) (7 September 1811[1] – 2 June 1885[1]) was the final Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen before the territory was annexed by Prussia in 1849 and Prime Minister of Prussia from 1858 to 1862, which made him the only Hohenzollern Prince to hold that post. His second son, Karl, became the first king of Romania.
Life
Karl Anton was the son of Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, who abdicated in favour of his son on 27 August 1848, and his first wife, Princess Marie Antoinette Murat, niece of Joachim Murat.[1]
After only slightly over a year ruling his family's small principality, Karl Anton abdicated in December 1849 in favor of his distant cousin, the King of Prussia, and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, along with the neighboring principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen, was annexed by Prussia. After his abdication, Karl Anton became a prominent figure in Prussian politics. After the fall of the reactionary Manteuffel ministry in 1858, and the accession of Prince William as regent for his incapacitated brother, King Frederick William IV, a new, moderately liberal ministry was appointed, with Karl Anton as Prime Minister. The Prince continued in this role until 1862, when he resigned in the midst of a struggle with parliament over the military budget.
After this, Karl Anton largely resigned from active politics and focused on his role as head of the Catholic branch of the Hohenzollern family, accentuated by the extinction of the Hohenzollern-Hechingen line in 1869. In 1866, his second son, Karl, was offered the throne of Romania, where he would rule for nearly fifty years as Carol I. A few years later, in 1870, his eldest son, Leopold, was given a similar offer of the Spanish throne. This so-called "Hohenzollern candidacy" for the Spanish throne was one of the main factors in instigating the Franco-Prussian War.
Marriage and issue
Prince Karl Anton was married[1] to Josephine Friederike Luise, Princess of Baden (1813–1900), daughter of Grand Duke Charles of Baden.[1]
- Leopold (1835–1905)
- Stephanie (1837–1859) - married Peter V of Portugal
- Karl (1839–1914), future King of Romania
- Anton (1841–1866), died in battle
- Friedrich (1843–1904)
- Marie (1845–1912) - married Philippe of Belgium
Honours
- German decorations[2]
- Hohenzollern: Joint Founder of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern, 5 December 1841
- Ascanian duchies: Grand Cross of Albert the Bear, 17 April 1860[3]
- Baden:[4]
- Grand Cross of the House Order of Fidelity, 1831
- Grand Cross of the Zähringer Lion, 1831
- Kingdom of Bavaria: Knight of St. Hubert, 1858[5]
- Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, May 1835[6]
- Grand Duchy of Hesse: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 25 December 1868[7]
- Oldenburg: Grand Cross of the Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig, with Golden Crown, 18 September 1861[8]
- Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: Grand Cross of the White Falcon, 1 March 1858[9]
- Kingdom of Saxony: Knight of the Rue Crown
- Württemberg:[10]
- Grand Cross of the Friedrich Order, 1832
- Grand Cross of the Württemberg Crown, 1845
- Kingdom of Prussia:
- Knight of the Black Eagle, 18 January 1849; with Collar, 1851[11]
- Grand Commander's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, 1851; with Star, 18 October 1861[11]
- Grand Cross of the Red Eagle, with Oak Leaves, 18 October 1861; with Swords, 1864[11]
- Pour le Mérite (military), 20 September 1866[11]
- Military Service Cross
- Foreign decorations[2]
- Austrian Empire:
- Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of Leopold, 1853[12]
- Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of St. Stephen, 1859[12]
- Knight of the Golden Fleece, 1860[12]
- Military Merit Cross, with War Decoration
- Belgium: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (military), 30 June 1869[13]
- Empire of Brazil: Grand Cross of the Southern Cross
- French Empire: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, 28 June 1860[14]
- Kingdom of Greece: Grand Cross of the Redeemer
- Monaco: Grand Cross of St. Charles, 26 September 1882[15]
- Kingdom of Portugal: Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword
- United Principalities of Romania:
- Russian Empire:
- Spain: Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, with Collar, 8 February 1882[16]
- Sweden-Norway: Knight of the Seraphim, 24 February 1864[17]
Ancestry
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References
- ^ a b c d e f g Darryl Lundy (7 January 2008). "Karl Anton Fürst von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen". thePeerage.com. Retrieved 28 December 2008.
- ^ a b Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Preußen (1884/85), Genealogy p.5
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Herzogtum Anhalt (1867) "Herzoglicher Haus-orden Albrecht des Bären" p. 18
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Baden (1834), "Großherzogliche Orden" pp. 32, 50
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreichs Bayern (in German). Königl. Oberpostamt. 1867. p. 10. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- ^ Staatshandbücher für das Herzogtum Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha (1837), "Herzogliche Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden" p. 12
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Großherzogtum Hessen (1879), "Großherzogliche Orden und Ehrenzeichen" p. 12
- ^ Hof- und Staatshandbuch des Großherzogtums Oldenburg: für das Jahr 1872/73, "Der Großherzogliche Haus-und Verdienst Orden" p. 31
- ^ Staatshandbuch für das Großherzogtum Sachsen / Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach (1869), "Großherzogliche Hausorden" p. 12 Archived 8 June 2020 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Königreich Württemberg (1869), "Königliche Orden" pp. 31, 56
- ^ a b c d Königlich Preussische Ordensliste (in German), vol. 1, Berlin, 1877, pp. 10, 20, 30, 921 – via hathitrust.org
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b c "Ritter-Orden", Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie, 1884, pp. 115, 121, 132, retrieved 9 June 2020
- ^ Almanach royal officiel de Belgique. Librairie polytechnique De Decq. 1870. p. 53.
- ^ M. Wattel, B. Wattel. (2009). Les Grand'Croix de la Légion d'honneur de 1805 à nos jours. Titulaires français et étrangers. Paris: Archives & Culture. p. 509. ISBN 978-2-35077-135-9.
- ^ Sovereign Ordonnance of 26 September 1882
- ^ "Real y distinguida orden de Carlos III", Guía Oficial de España (in Spanish), 1884, p. 142, retrieved 9 June 2020
- ^ Sveriges statskalender (in Swedish), 1877, p. 368, retrieved 6 January 2018 – via runeberg.org
- 1811 births
- 1885 deaths
- People from Sigmaringen
- Princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
- Princes of Hohenzollern
- Members of the Prussian House of Lords
- Prime Ministers of Prussia
- Colonel generals of Prussia
- 19th-century Prussian military personnel
- German landowners
- Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (military class)
- Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary
- Knights of the Golden Fleece of Austria
- Grand Croix of the Légion d'honneur
- Recipients of the Order of the White Eagle (Russia)
- Recipients of the Order of St. Anna, 1st class
- Grand Crosses of the Order of the Star of Romania
- Grand Crosses of the Order of the Crown (Romania)
- Grand Crosses of the Order of Saint-Charles
- Royal reburials