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Reign 13 September 1838 –7 December 1849 Died September 3, 1869, Czerwiensk, Poland Spouse Baroness Amalie Schenk von Geyern (m. 1850), Eugenie de Beauharnais (m. 1826) Parents Princess Pauline, Duchess of Sagan, Friedrich Hermann Otto, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen Grandparents Dorothea von Medem, Peter von Biron, Hermann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen Similar People Eugenie de Beauharnais, Princess Augusta of Bavaria, Eugene de Beauharnais, Dorothea von Medem, Peter von Biron | ||
Predecessor Friedrich Hermann Otto | ||
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Konstantin Hermann Thassilo of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (16 February 1801 in Schloss Sagan, Sagan, Silesia, Prussia – 3 September 1869 in Schloss Polnisch Nettkow, Grünberg, Silesia, Prussia) was the last Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen. Constantine was the only child of Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and his wife, Princess Pauline of Courland, the daughter of the last Duke of Courland, Peter von Biron.
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Regency and reign
Constantine served as regent for his ill father, Frederick, beginning in 1834. Upon his father's death in 1838, Constantine became Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and after the death of his mother in 1845, he also inherited the Duchy of Sagan. Following the Revolutions of 1848, Constantine and Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen both agreed to cede their principalities to the Kingdom of Prussia and renounced their rights as sovereign princes and heads of government on 7 December 1849.
Marriage
Constantine married firstly to Princess Eugénie de Beauharnais (1808–1847) on 22 May 1826 in Eichstätt and after her death (September 1847), he married secondly (and morganatically) to Baroness Amalie Schenk von Geyern. Upon their marriage, Frederick William IV of Prussia styled Amalie with the title Countess of Rothenburg.
Death and dynastic end
Constantine died on 3 September 1869 at his estate in Silesia. Because Constantine was the final dynast male member of the Hohenzollern-Hechingen dynastic line, his title passed to the head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Charles Anthony.