Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

Constantine
Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen.
Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
Reign	13 September 1838 – 7 December 1849
Predecessor	Friedrich Hermann Otto
Successor	none
Born	(1801-02-16)16 February 1801 Schloss Sagan, Sagan, Silesia, Prussia
Died	3 September 1869(1869-09-03) (aged 68) Schloss Polnisch Nettkow, Grünberg, Silesia, Prussia
Spouse	Eugénie de Beauharnais Baroness Amalie Schenk von Geyern
Full name German: Friedrich Wilhelm Konstantin Hermann Thassilo
House	House of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
Father	Friedrich Hermann Otto, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
Mother	Princess Pauline of Courland
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Konstantin Hermann Thassilo of Hohenzollern-Hechingen (16 February 1801, Schloss Sagan, Sagan, Silesia, Prussia – 3 September 1869, Schloss Polnisch Nettkow, Grünberg, Silesia, Prussia) was the last Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen. Constantine was the only child of Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and his wife, Princess Pauline of Courland, the daughter of the last Duke of Courland, Peter von Biron.

Regency and reign

Constantine served as regent for his ill father, Frederick, beginning in 1834. Upon his father's death in 1838, Constantine became Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and after the death of his mother in 1845, he also inherited the Duchy of Sagan. Following the Revolutions of 1848, Constantine and Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen both agreed to cede their principalities to the Kingdom of Prussia and renounced their rights as sovereign princes and heads of government on 7 December 1849.

Marriage

Constantine married firstly to Princess Eugénie de Beauharnais (1808–1847) on 22 May 1826 in Eichstätt and after her death (September 1847), he married secondly (and morganatically) to Baroness Amalie Schenk von Geyern. Upon their marriage, Frederick William IV of Prussia styled Amalie with the title Countess of Rothenburg.

Death and dynastic end

Constantine died on 3 September 1869 at his estate in Silesia. Because Constantine was the final dynast male member of the Hohenzollern-Hechingen dynastic line, his title passed to the head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Charles Anthony.

Ancestry

References

• Anton-Heinrich Buckenmaier, Michael Hakenmüller: Friedrich-Wilhelm Constantin. Der letzte Fürst. Glückler, Hechingen 2005
• Gustav Schilling: Geschichte des Hauses Hohenzollern, in genealogisch fortlaufenden Biographien aller seiner Regenten von den ältesten bis auf die neuesten Zeiten, nach Urkunden und andern authentischen Quellen, F. Fleischer, 1843, p. 257 ff.

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