Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern

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Leopold
Prince of Hohenzollern
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Head of the Princely House of Hohenzollern
Predecessor Charles Anthony
Successor William
Born (1835-09-22)22 September 1835
Krauchenwies
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Berlin
Spouse Infanta Antónia of Portugal
Issue William, Prince of Hohenzollern
Ferdinand I of Romania
Prince Karl Anton
Full name
German: Leopold Stephan Karl Anton Gustav Eduard Tassilo
House Hohenzollern
Father Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern
Mother Princess Josephine of Baden

Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern[1][2] (German: Leopold Stephan Karl Anton Gustav Eduard Tassilo Fürst von Hohenzollern)[1][2] (22 September 1835 – 8 June 1905)[1][2] was the head of the Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern, and played a fleeting role in European power politics, in connection with the Franco-Prussian War.

He was born into the dynasty's surviving Sigmaringen branch, which inherited all the dynasty's Swabian lands when the Hohenzollern-Hechingen branch became extinct.

Leopold's parents were Josephine of Baden and Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern.[1][2] Leopold was the older brother[1][2] of King Carol I of Romania and father of the future King Ferdinand of Romania.[1][2] Carol ascended the Romanian throne in 1866, and Leopold renounced his rights to the Romanian succession in favor of his sons in 1880.[citation needed]

Entry into European controversy

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After the Spanish Revolution of 1868 that overthrew Queen Isabella II, Leopold was offered the Spanish Crown by the new government. This offer was supported by the Prussian Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck, but opposed by the French Emperor Napoleon III on the grounds that the installation of a relative of the Prussian king would result in the expansion of Prussian influence and the encirclement of France. Leopold was forced to decline the offer.

Additional demands made by the French government heightened diplomatic tensions between Paris and Berlin; deliberate or accidental mistranslations of a diplomatic communique, the Ems Telegram, also known as the Ems Dispatch, led to the declaration of war by France. Prussia's speedy mobilization, with the support of the other members of the North German Confederation, resulted in French defeat, the capture of Napoleon and collapse of his government, loss of Alsace and part of Lorraine and huge compensation to Germany and the institution of the French Third Republic, and the creation of the German Empire.

Marriage and issue

In 1861 Leopold married Antonia of Portugal, daughter of Queen Maria II of Portugal and King Ferdinand II of Portugal.[1][2] They had the following children:[1][2]

Ancestry

Family of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Charles Frederick, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Anton Aloys, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Countess Johanna of Hohenzollern-s'Heerenberg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Charles, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Philip Joseph, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Princess Amalie Zephyrine of Salm-Kyrburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Princess Maria Theresa of Hornes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Pierre Murat
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Pierre Murat
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Jeanne Loubières
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Marie Antoinette Murat
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Aymeric d'Astorg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Louise d'Astorg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Marie Alanyou
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Karoline Luise of Hesse-Darmstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Charles, Grand Duke of Baden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Countess Palatine Caroline of Zweibrücken
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Princess Josephine of Baden
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Claude de Beauharnais, comte des Roches-Baritaud
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Claude de Beauharnais
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Marie-Anne Mouchard de Chaban
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Stéphanie de Beauharnais
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Claude, marquis de Lézay-Marnézia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Claudine Françoise de Lézay-Marnézia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Marie-Claudine de Nettancourt-Vaubécourt, dame de Vaubécourt
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

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Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern
Cadet branch of the House of Hohenzollern
Born: 22 September 1835 Died: 8 June 1905
German nobility
Preceded by Prince of Hohenzollern
2 June 1885 – 8 June 1905
Succeeded by
William
Titles in pretence
Preceded by — TITULAR —
Prince of Hohenzollern
2 June 1885 – 8 June 1905
Reason for succession failure:
Principality annexed by the Kingdom of Prussia in 1850
Succeeded by
William