Frederick William, Prince of Hohenzollern "(Friedrich Wilhelm Ferdinand Joseph Maria Manuel Georg Meinrad Fidelis Benedikt Michael Hubert von Hohenzollern)" (Born 3 February 1924) is the head of the house of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
Biography
Frederick William was born in Schloss Umkirch. He is the oldest son of Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern (1891-1965) and his wife, Princess Margarete of Saxony (1900-1962), the daughter of the last King of Saxony Frederick Augustus III. He became the head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen on the 6 February 1965 following the death of his father Prince Friedrich. According to the Romanian succession laws of the kingdom's last democratic Constitution of 1923, upon the death of King Michael, provided he dies without any male children as is now likely, Prince Frederick William will likely inherit the rights of succession to the Romanian throne, although it is debated that his grandfather's renunciation to the Romanian throne in favor of his brother, King Ferdinand I of Romania, deprives him of any such rights (see "Line of succession to the Romanian throne"). Prince Frederick William married Princess Margarita of Leiningen (1932-1996) on the 3 February 1951 and they had three children.
* Hereditary Prince Karl Friedrich of Hohenzollern (born 1952)
* Prince Albrecht of Hohenzollern (born 1954)
* Prince Ferdinand of Hohenzollern (born 1960)
Ancestry
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1= Frederick William, Prince of Hohenzollern
2= Friedrich, Prince of Hohenzollern
3= Princess Margarete of Saxony
4= Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern
5= Princess Maria Teresa of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
6= Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
7= Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany
8= Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern
9= Infanta Antónia of Portugal
10=Lodovico, Count of Trani
11=Duchess Mathilde Ludovika in Bavaria
12=George of Saxony
13=Maria Anna of Portugal
14=Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany
15=Princess Alicia of Parma
ee also
*Line of succession to the Romanian throne
External links
* [http://www.hohenzollern.de/en/index.html Hohenzollern website]
* [http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/hohenzollern.html Hohenzollern genealogy]