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Born 19 January 1817
Stuttgart ( 1817-01-19 ) Spouse Count Erwin von Ingelheim
Charles, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen House Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst Father Charles Albert III, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst Mother Princess Leopoldine of Fürstenberg Died 15 February 1893, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany Parents Charles Albert III, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst Grandparent Charles Albert II, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst Great-grandparents Charles Albert I, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst | ||
Princess Katharina of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (German: Katharina Wilhelmine Maria Josepha, Prinzessin von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (19 January 1817, Stuttgart – 15 February 1893, Freiburg im Breisgau) was a member of the House of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst by birth and a member of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Princess consort of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen by marriage.
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Life
Princess Katharina was the only daughter of Charles Albert III, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1776-1843) by his second marriage with Princess Leopoldine of Fürstenberg (1791-1844). After the separation of her parents she lived with her mother in Donaueschingen.
In 1838 she married Franz Erwin, Graf von Ingelheim; the marriage was childless. After the death of her first husband, she married in 1848 Charles, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as his second wife. Charles was a widower of Marie Antoinette Murat, niece of Joachim Murat, King of the Two Sicilies, by whom he had had four children. Also this marriage was childless.
After Charles' death Katharina entered the convent of Sant'Ambrogio della Massima as a novice. However, she made a formal denunciation of the convent to the Catholic authorities, fleeing the convent in fear for her life after the nuns attempted to poison her. She died just eight months before the birth of her step-great-great-grandson, the future Carol II of Romania.