Princess Katharina of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

Princess Katharina of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Spouse Count Erwin von Ingelheim
Charles, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Full name
Katharina Wilhelmine Maria Josepha
House House of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
Father Charles Albert III, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
Mother Princess Leopoldine of Fürstenberg
Born 19 January 1817
Stuttgart
Died 15 February 1893 (aged 76)
Freiburg im Breisgau

Princess Katharina of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (German: Katharina Wilhelmine Maria Josepha, Prinzessin von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, born 19 January 1817 in Stuttgart; died 15 February 1893 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a member of the House of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst by birth and a member of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Princess consort of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen by marriage.

Life

Princess Katharina was the only daughter of Charles Albert III, Prince of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1776-1843) by his second marriage with Princess Leopoldine of Fürstenberg (1791-1844). After the separation of her parents she lived with her mother in Donaueschingen.

In 1838 she married Franz Erwin, Graf von Ingelheim; the marriage was childless. After the death of her first husband, she married in 1848 Charles, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen as his second wife. Charles was a widower of Marie Antoinette Murat, niece of Joachim Murat, King of the Two Sicilies, by whom he had had four children. Also this marriage was childless.

After Charles' death Katharina entered the convent of Sant'Ambrogio della Massima as a novice. However, she made a formal denunciation of the convent to the Catholic authorities, fleeing the convent in fear for her life after the nuns attempted to poison her.[1]

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References

  1. Miller, Laura (15 January 2015). "Nuns gone bad". Salon.

Bibliography

Princess Katharina of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst
Born: 19 January 1817 Died: 15 February 1893
German nobility
Preceded by
Marie Antoinette Murat
Princess consort of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
1848 – 1853
Succeeded by
Princess Josephine of Baden