Christopher, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch

Christoph von Hohenzollern - Haigerloch ( born March 20, 1552 Haigerloch, † April 21, 1592 ibid ) was the first Count of Hohenzollern- Haigerloch.

Life

Christoph was the third surviving son of Count Charles I of Hohenzollern (1516-1576) from his marriage to Anna (1512-1579), daughter of Margrave Ernst of Baden-Durlach. Together with his brother, Charles (1547-1606) studied Christoph in Freiburg and the French Bourges jurisprudence.

In 1576 it came to the division of the parent company in the Hohenzollern Hechingen, Haigerlocher and Sigmaringer line. The youngest son Christopher was awarded the 1497 acquired dominion Haigerloch with Imnau, Stetten and the Enisheim castle. His brother Eitel Friedrich got Hechingen, his other brother Karl Sigmaringen. Christopher county comprised at that time 10,000 inhabitants and was so much smaller than that of his brothers. Christoph was the progenitor of the Haigerlocher line with his younger son became extinct in 1634 again.

Christopher married in 1577 in Sigmaringen Catherine ( † after 1608), daughter of barons Christoph von Welsperg. He cared intensely about the administration of his country, and soon began extensive construction work at his residence Haigerloch. The medieval castle was not a modern representative system for him. However, he did not live to see the completion of his premature death. Together with his wife he founded the St. Trinity Church in Haigerloch.

After the death of Count Christoph Stanislaus of Nellenburg 1591, whose brother was married to a Countess of Hohenzollern Christoph received from the heritage of the rule Wehrstein with castle and town, and the village Dettensee. A a contestant for the inheritance, Anna Maria von Wolfenstein, which had made ​​with the Bregenz citizens Fezenn a failure marriage, was turned off by Christoph and his brothers successfully writing appealed to the chivalry and nobility of Swabia and Anna Maria discredited as a prostitute.

Progeny

From his marriage Christoph had the following children:

  • Johann Christoph (1586-1620), Count of Hohenzollern- Haigerloch
  • Karl (1588-1634), Count of Hohenzollern- Haigerloch
  • Marie Salome Cunegonde (1578-1647), a nun at the Abbey of Inzigkofen
  • Anna Dorthea († 1647), prioress of the Abbey Inzigkofen
  • Marie Sidonia, nun in the convent Söflingen
  • Jakobi ( † after 1607)
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