Charles, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (20 February 1785 – 11 March 1853) was Prince

Prince

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 of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen

-Noble jurisdictions:Prince Karl Eitel of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and descendants of his nephew Ferdinand ruled over the Kingdom of Romania, as Karl Eitel did not have children...

 from 1831 to 1848.

In 1833 Karl called a constitutional assembly (German: Landtag) together and created a constitution

Constitution

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al charter that would be the law in his lands. He founded a hospital for his subjects, and had the Ständehaus built on the modern Leopoldsplatz in Sigmaringen (today owned by the Hohenzollerischen Landesbank). Karl also removed the burden of serf

SERF

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dom and various other medieval laws

German town law

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. During the German Revolution of 1848

Revolutions of 1848 in the German states

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 Karl abdicated in favor of his son, Karl Anton, on August 27, 1848.

Following the death of his first wife, Marie Antoinette Murat

Marie Antoinette Murat

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 on 19 January 1847, on 14 March 1848 Charles married Katharina von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

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 (1817–1893), daughter of Prince Karl Albrecht von Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst and widow of Count Franz Erwin von Ingelheim.

He died on 11 March 1853 in Bologna

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 while traveling to Rome

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.

Children

From his first marriage he had the following children:

• Karoline von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1810–1885)

∞ 1. 1839 Graf Friedrich Franz Anton von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1790-1847)

∞ 2. 1850 Johann Stäger von Waldburg (1822–1882)

• Charles Anthony (1811–1885), Prince of Hohenzollern, Prussian minister

∞ 1834 Princess Josephine of Baden

Princess Josephine of Baden

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 (1813–1900)

• Princess Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
  Princess Amalie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
  Princess Amalie Antoinette Karoline Adrienne of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, was a member of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and a Princess of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen by birth...
  
   (1815–1841)

∞ 1835 Prince Eduard von Sachsen-Altenburg (1804-1852)

• Friederike von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1820–1906)

∞ 1844 Marchese Gioacchino Napoleone Pepoli (1825–1881)