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Frederick VIII, Count of Zollern

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Friedrich VIII, Count of Zollern
Died1333
Noble familyHouse of Hohenzollern
Issue
  • Fritz II
  • Friedrich IX
  • Friedrich "Easter Sunday" II
  • Friedrich of Strasbourg
FatherFriedrich VI, Count of Zollern
MotherKunigunde of Baden

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

Life

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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

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

Ancestry

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See also

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Footnotes

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

References

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  • Count Rudolph Stillfried-Alcántara and Traugott Maercker: Hohenzollerische Forschungen, C. Reimarus, 1847, p. 172 ff
Frederick VIII, Count of Zollern
 Died: 1333
Preceded by Count of Hohenzollern
1309–1333
Succeeded by