Friedrich V of Zollern (died 24 May 1289, at
Hohenzollern Castle
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) nicknamed, ''the Illustrious'' was a
Count of Zollern
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 ...
.
Life
Friedrich was a son of the Count
Friedrich IV of Zollern from his 1248 marriage to Elisabeth of Abensberg. He succeeded his father around 1255 as Count of Zollern.
Friedrich was appointed
reeve of
Beuron Archabbey
Beuron Archabbey (in German Erzabtei Beuron, otherwise Erzabtei St. Martin; in Latin ''Archiabbatia Sancti Martini Beuronensis''; Swabian: ''Erzabtei Beira'') is a major house of the Benedictine Order located at Beuron in the upper Danube va ...
. He founded the
Stetten Abbey in Gnadental in 1259 and he and his wife expanded the abbey in 1267. They added a crypt where members of the Zollern family would be buried. A tunnel may have connected the castle to this crypt. Legend has it that Friedrich built this abbey to resolve a problem he had with Emperor
Friedrich II Frederick II, Frederik II or Friedrich II may refer to:
* Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194–1250), King of Sicily from 1198; Holy Roman Emperor from 1220
* Frederick II of Denmark (1534–1588), king of Denmark and Norway 1559–1588
* Fr ...
, after he had refused to contribute troops when the Emperor was raising an army.
[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'', F. Fleischer, 1843, p. 145]
Friedrich has a long-running conflict with the
Counts of Hohenberg, which was settled when King
Rudolf I of Germany
Rudolf I (1 May 1218 – 15 July 1291) was the first King of Germany from the House of Habsburg. The first of the count-kings of Germany, he reigned from 1273 until his death.
Rudolf's election marked the end of the Great Interregnum whic ...
mediated in 1286.
Friedrich was described as pious and respectful. During his reign, the county of Zollern reached the peak of its influence. After his death, the county was divided among his sons and lost its importance.
Marriage and issue
In 1258, Friedrich married Udilhild, the daughter of Hartmann, the Count of Dillingen, and sister of Bishop
Hartmann of Augsburg. Udilhild survived her husband and died as a nun in
Stetten Abbey. They had the following children:
*
Friedrich VI (d. 1298), Count of Zollern
: married in 1281 to Princess Kunigunde of Baden (1265–1310)
* Friedrich (d. 1304),
provost in Augsburg
* Adelheid (d. 1296/1308)
: married Heinrich of Geroldeck (d. 1300)
* Friedrich of Merkenberg (d. 1302/3), founder of the line at
Schalksburg
: married in 1282 to Udilhild of Merkenberg (d. 1305)
* Wilburg (died after 1300), a nun in Stetten
Footnotes
References
* Graf Rudolph Stillfried-Alcántara, Traugott Maercker: ''Hohenzollerische Forschungen'', C. Reimarus, 1847, p. 124 ff.
* Ottmar F. Schönhuth: ''Die Burgen, Klöster, Kirchen und Kapellen Württembergs und der Preui︣sch-Hohenzollern'schen Landestheile mit ihren Geschichten, Sagen und Mährchen'', Fischhaber, 1860, p. 291
External links
City of Stetten
Counts of Zollern
House of Hohenzollern
13th-century births
Year of birth uncertain
1289 deaths
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