Died November 26, 1401 Role Count of Hohenzollern | Name Frederick Count Buried Stetten Abbey | |
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Spouse(s) Adelheid of Furstenberg-Zindelstein Father Friedrich of Strasbourg Mother Margaret of Hohenburg-Wildenburg Children Eitel Frederick I, Count of Hohenzollern, Frederick XII, Count of Hohenzollern Parents Frederick of Strasbourg, Friedrich of Strasbourg Grandchildren Jobst Nikolaus I, Count of Hohenzollern Grandparents Frederick VIII, Count of Zollern Great-grandparents Frederick VI, Count of Zollern | ||
Noble family House of Hohenzollern | ||
Friedrich XI, Count of Hohenzollern (died 26 November 1401), nicknamed Friedrich the Elder was a German nobleman. He was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and a ruling Count of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.
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Life
Friedrich was the younger son of Count Friedrich of Strasbourg, from his marriage to Margaret, the daughter of Count Burchard V of Hohenberg-Wildenberg.
After the death of Friedrich IX, Friedrich XI became the senior member of the House of Hohenzollern. As such, he was the Vogt of Stetten Abbey.
He was a member of the Lion League, which joined the Swabian League of Cities in 1382. When the latter clashed with Count Eberhard II of Württemberg, Friedrich XI managed to break off the services he had promised to Count Eberhard.
In 1388, he regained the town of Hechingen, which bishop Friedrich of Strasbourg had held. After a town fire in 1401, he granted the town a letter of liberty.
Friedrich XI died in 1401, and was buried in the Hohenzollern crypt in Stetten Abbey.
Marriage and issue
Before 12 January 1377, Friedrich XI married Adelheid (d. 1413), a daughter of Count Hugo of Fürstenberg-Zindelstein. Her brother Johann was the last Count of Fürstenbert-Haslah. Johann died childless in the Battle of Sempach of 1386, and Friedrich XI inherited Bräunlingen from him, which gave rise to a lengthy dispute with the main line of the Fürstenberg family.
From his marriage with Adelheid, Friedrich had the following children: