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Frederick VI, Count of Zollern

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Spouse(s)
  
Kunigunde of Baden

Name
  
Frederick Count

Died
  
4 May 1298(1298-05-04)

Mother
  
Udilhild of Dillingen


Father
  
Friedrich V, Count of Zollern

Noble family
  
House of Hohenzollern

Friedrich VI, Count of Zollern (died: 4 May 1298), also known as Friedrich the Knight, or Friedrich the Elder, was a Count of Hohenzollern

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Life

Friedrich was a son of Count Friedrich V of Hohenzollern from his marriage to Udilhild of Dillingen. He succeeded his father around 1288 as Count of Zollern. Later that year, he divided his inheritance with his younger brother Friedrich the Younger. Friedrich VI kept the County of Zollern, while his younger brother received the Lordships of Schalksburg and Mühlheim.

In 1296 Friedrich sold some land to the Bebenhausen Abbey.

Marriage and issue

In 1281, Friedrich married Kunigunde (1265–1310), the daughter of Margrave Rudolf I of Baden, with whom he had the following children:

  • Albrecht
  • Kunigunde (died between 1380 and 1384), abbess of Lichtenthal Abbey
  • Friedrich VII (d. 1298), Count of Hohenzollern
    • married in 1298 to Countess Eufemia of Hohenberg (d. 1333)
  • Friedrich VIII "Easter Sunday" (d. 1333), Count of Hohenzollern
  • Sophia (died after 1300), a nun at Stetten Abbey
  • Friedrich († 1361)

    • References

    Frederick VI, Count of Zollern Wikipedia
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