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Eitel Friedrich III, Count of Hohenzollern

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Spouse(s)
  
Johanna of Witthem


Buried
  
Cathedral of Pavia

Name
  
Eitel III,

Eitel Friedrich III, Count of Hohenzollern

Father
  
Eitel Friedrich II, Count of Hohenzollern

Mother
  
Magdalena of Brandenburg

Died
  
15 January 1525(1525-01-15) Pavia

Noble family
  
House of Hohenzollern

Eitel Friedrich III, Count of Hohenzollern (1494 – 15 January 1525 in Pavia) was Count of County of Hohenzollern from 1512 until his death.

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Life

Eitel Friedrich was a son of Count Eitel Friedrich II (1452–1512) from his marriage to Magdalena (1460 -1496), the daughter of Margrave Friedrich of Altmark. Eitel Friedrich succeeded his father as Count of Hohenzollern in 1512.

In 1515, he married Johanna of Witthem (d. 1544), the daughter of Philip, Lord of Beersel and Boutersem.

Eitel Friedrich III was top councillor and great chamberlain to Emperor Maximilian I, which demonstrates that he, like his father before him, had excellent relations with the Habsburgs. He was also Imperial Archchamberlain and captain of the Lordship of Hohenberg.

He died in Pavia in 1525; he may have been poisoned. He was in Pavia to serve as captain of the Landsknecht regiment. He was buried in the Cathedral of Pavia.

Issue

His marriage Eitel Friedrich had the following children:

  • Karl I (1516–1576), his successor as Count of Hohenzollern, married in 1537 to Margravine Anna of Baden-Durlach (1512–1579)
  • Ferfried (died young)
  • Anna (d. 1574)
  • Margaret (died young)
  • Eitel Friedrich, (d. 1544), fell during the Siege of St. Dizier
  • Felix Friedrich (d. 1550)
  • Johanna (d. 1550), married in 1539 to Baron James III, Seneschal of Waldburg-Trauchburg (1512–1542)

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