Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen

The recorded working language is German. Positions recorded include member of the Prussian House of Lords. Distinctions recorded are Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Friedrich I, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion, Order of Fidelity and Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown.

• Name — Constantine • Reign — 13 September 1838 – 7 December 1849 • Succession — Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen • Predecessor — Friedrich Hermann Otto • Successor — Annexation by Prussia • Full Name — Friedrich Wilhelm Konstantin Hermann Thassilo • House — Hohenzollern-Hechingen • Father — Friedrich Hermann Otto, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen • Mother — Princess Pauline of Courland • Born — 16 February 1801 • Birthplace — Schloss Sagan, Sagan, Silesia, Prussia • Died — 3 September 1869 • Place of death — Schloss Polnisch Nettkow, Grünberg, Silesia, Prussia • Religion — Roman Catholicism

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.

Constantine married firstly to Princess Eugénie de Beauharnais on 22 May 1826 in Eichstätt. They had no children. After her death in September 1847, he married secondly (and morganatically) to Baroness Amalie Schenk von Geyern; upon their marriage, Frederick William IV of Prussia bestowed Amalie with the title Countess of Rothenburg. The couple had three children: • Countess Friederike Wilhelmine Elisabeth von Rothenburg (1852–1914) • Count Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Rothenburg (1856–1912) • Count Wilhelm Friedrich Louis Gustaf von Rothenburg (1861–1929) He also had a daughter out of wedlock with Sophie Scherer: • Ludovika Sophia (1824–1884)

• Illustration — Photograph of Constantine after his abdication, c. 1860s 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, having no legitimate heirs from his two marriages, his title passed to the head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Charles Anthony, Prince of Hohenzollern.

Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen was recorded at birth as Friedrich Wilhelm Konstantin Hermann Thassilo von Hohenzollern-Hechingen. His recorded language was German. His recorded confession was Catholicism. He was the child of Friedrich Hermann Otto, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Princess Pauline, Duchess of Sagan. He married Eugénie de Beauharnais.

Constantine, Prince of Hohenzollern-Hechingen is recorded as having received Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Friedrich I, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion and Order of Fidelity.