Frederick VIII, Count of Zollern

Frederick VIII, Count of Zollern
Count of Zollern
Reign	4 May 1298 – 1333
Predecessor	Frederick VI
Successor	Frederick IX
Died	1333
Issue	Fritz II Friedrich IX Friedrich "Easter Sunday" II Friedrich of Strasbourg
House	Hohenzollern
Mother	Kunigunde of Baden

Friedrich VIII, Count of Zollern, nicknamed Easter Sunday (d. 1333) was a Count of Hohenzollern.

Life

Friedrich was the younger son of the Count Friedrich VI of Hohenzollern from his marriage to Kunigunde (1265–1310), the daughter of Margrave Rudolf I of Baden. After his elder brother Friedrich VII died in 1309, Frederik VIII ruled Zollern jointly with his nephew Fritz I. After Fritz I died in 1313, Friedrich VIII ruled alone.

Friedrich VIII founded the Hohenzollern line when he divided the county with his brother. ^[1] In the power conflict of his time, Friedrich VIII supported the Austrian side, and later sided with Emperor Louis IV.

Issue

The name of Friedrich's wife has not been preserved. He had the following children:

• Fritz II (died between 1355 and 1359), Count of Zollern
• Friedrich IX (died between 1377 and 1379), Count of Hohenzollern, married in 1341 to Countess Adelheid of Hohenberg (d. after 1385)
• Friedrich "Easter Sunday" II (d. 1395), prior of the Order of Saint John
• Friedrich of Strasbourg (d. 1365), married in 1343 to Countess Margaret of Hohenberg-Wildberg, parents of:
  • Frederick XI, Count of Hohenzollern.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Frederick VIII, Count of Zollern

16. Frederick I, Burgrave of Nuremberg 8. Frederick IV, Count of Zollern 17. Sophia of Raabs 4. Frederick V, Count of Zollern 18. Friedrich, Count of Abenberg 9. Elisabeth of Abensberg 2. Frederick VI, Count of Zollern 20. Adalbert III., Count of Dillingen 10. Hartmann IV, Count of Dillingen 21. daughter of Otto I, Duke of Bavaria 5. Udilhild of Dillingen 11. Willibirg 1. Frederick VIII, Count of Zollern 24. Herman IV, Margrave of Baden 12. Herman V, Margrave of Baden-Baden 25. Bertha of Tübingen 6. Rudolf I, Margrave of Baden-Baden 26. Henry V, Count Palatine of the Rhine 13. Countess Palatine Irmengard of the Rhine 27. Agnes of Hohenstaufen 3. Kunigunde of Baden 28. Eberhard III. von Eberstein 14. Count Otto I, of Eberstein 29. Kunigunde von Andechs 7. Kunigunde of Eberstein

See also

• House of Hohenzollern

Footnotes

1. Alexander von Daniels: Handbuch der deutschen Reichs und Staatenrechsgeschichte, vol. 2, part 3, Laupp & Siebeck, 1863, p. 513

References

• Count Rudolph Stillfried-Alcántara and Traugott Maercker: Hohenzollerische Forschungen, C. Reimarus, 1847, p. 172 ff

Frederick VIII, Count of Zollern House of Hohenzollern  Died: 1333
Preceded by Friedrich VII	Count of Hohenzollern 1309–1333	Succeeded by Friedrich IX