Friedrich IX, Count of Hohenzollern (died between 1377 and 1379), nicknamed "Fredrick the Old" or "the Black Count", was a German nobleman. He was the ruling count of
Hohenzollern
The House of Hohenzollern (, also , german: Haus Hohenzollern, , ro, Casa de Hohenzollern) is a German royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenb ...
from 1339 until his death.
Life
He was the second son of Count
Friedrich VIII. In 1339, he succeeded his older brother Fritzli II as Count of Hohenzollern.
On 27 July 1342, he closed a treaty of
agnatic seniority
Agnatic seniority is a patrilineal principle of inheritance where the order of succession to the throne prefers the monarch's younger brother over the monarch's own sons. A monarch's children (the next generation) succeed only after the males o ...
with the Zollern-Schalksburg line, in which the senior of the two counts should decide who would be the next holder of the original
fief
A fief (; la, feudum) was a central element in medieval contracts based on feudal law. It consisted of a form of property holding or other rights granted by an Lord, overlord to a vassal, who held it in fealty or "in fee" in return for a for ...
of Zollern. As Friedrich commanded a larger military power, he became a captain of the
Lion League, an important organisation of Swabian noblemen.
In 1344, Friedrich IX divided the inheritance with his younger brother
Friedrich of Strasbourg Friedrich may refer to:
Names
*Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich''
*Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich''
Other
*Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' ...
. Friedrich IX founded the "Black Count" line, which ended with the death of his son Friedrich X in 1412.
[''Die Gesetzgebung für die hohenzollern'schen Lande seit deren Vereinigung mit der Krone Preussen: nebst den bezüglichen Staats-Verträgen, geschichtlichem Rückblicke, Uebersicht der Genealogie, Behörden und Literatur der hohenzollern'schen Geschichte und Landeskunde'', Wolff, 1857, p. 7]
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In 1412, the Strasbourg line founded by his brother inherited the county; they were later raised to Princes of Hohenzollern.
Marriage and issue
In 1341 Fredrick IX married Adelheid (d. after 1385), a daughter of Count Burchard V of Hohenberg-Wildenberg, with whom he had the following children:
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Friedrich X, the younger Black Count (d. 1412), Count of Hohenzollern, married Anna of Hohenberg (d. 1421)
* Adelheid (d. 1415), married Johann of Stralenberg (d. 1408)
* Friedrich "Easter Sunday" III (d. 1407/10)
* Anna (d. 1418), a nun in Königsfeld
* Sophia (d. 1418), a nun in Stetten
Footnotes
References
* Graf Rudolph Stillfried-Alcántara and Traugott Maercker: ''Hohenzollerische Forschungen'', C. Reimarus, 1847, p. 178 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
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Counts of Hohenzollern
Year of birth unknown
1370s deaths
Year of death unknown
14th-century German nobility
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