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DUCHESS SOPHIE OF, morganatic wife of Francis Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria, and heir to the throne, born in Stuttgart, and before her marriage known as the Countess Chotek. She was the mother of the Princess Sophie and the Princes Maximilian Charles (born in 1902) and Ernst (born in 1904), who were excluded from the succession on account of the nature of the marriage of which they were the result. The Duchess, while on a visit to Serajevo, in June, 1914, together with her husband, the Archduke, was with him assassinated by a Serbian revolutionary conspirator, the murder serving as the pretext for the opening of hostilities in the World War.
HOHENLINDEN (hö"en-lin"den), a village of Bavaria on the Iser, near HOHENLOHE-SCHILLINGSFÜRST 33 Ebersburg, and 33 miles E. of Munich.
Here in 1800 the French, under Moreau, defeated the Austrians commanded by the Archduke John, which event brought about the peace of Lunéville.
HOHENLOHE - SCHILLINGSFÜRST, CLOVIS KARL VICTOR, PRINCE VON (hō"en-lō"uh-shel"ēngs-först), German statesman; born March 31, 1819. After studying at Heidelberg he entered the public service, becoming in 1866 Prime Minister of Bavaria. In 1874 he was chosen to succeed Count Arnim as the German ambassador to France, and held the post till 1885, when he became governor-general of Alsace-Lorraine.
When the crisis which resulted in the resignation of Count Caprivi and Count Eulenburg arose, in 1894, he was appointed Chancellor. He resigned in 1900. He married Princess Sayn-Wittgenstein, a daughter of a famous Russian general. Died in 1901. HOHENSCHWANGAU (ho"enshväng"ou), a royal castle in Bavaria, 55 miles from Munich, near the right bank of the Lech, 2,933 feet above sea level. It was purchased in 1832 by the crown-prince Maximilian of Bavaria, of Bavaria , who restored it in the style of a magnificent mediæval feudal castle. HOHENSTAUFFEN (hō-en-stou'fen), a German family, founded by Frederick von Büren, who lived about 1040.
His son fought valiantly under the Emperor Henry IV. in the battle of Merseburg, in 1080, and received the hand of the emperor's daughter Agnes, together with the dukedom of Suabia, in 1081. Conrad, his grandson, was elected Emperor of Germany, Feb. 22, 1138. Conrad III. was succeeded as emperor by his nephew , Frederick I., surnamed Barbarossa , 1152-1190; and the imperial throne was occupied by his son and grandson till 1254. The sole and last survivor of the Hohenstauffen race, Conradin, tried to regain the family heritage; but defeated in the battles of Benevento, Feb. 26, 1266, and of Tagliacozzo, Aug. 23, 1268, he was made prisoner and beheaded at Naples, Oct. 29, 1268. 1 by HOHENZOLLERN (hō-en-tsol'urn), a small territory of Germany, since 1852 an administrative division of Prussia.
It consists of a long, narrow, irregular strip of country, entirely surrounded by Württemberg and Baden. Area, 441 square miles. Pop. (1910) 71,611. The princely family of Hohenzollern dates from Thassilo, Count of Zollern, who died about A. D. 800. There have been several lines and branches, the main one being the family of which the ex-Em- HOLBEIN peror Wilhelm II., now an exile in Holland, is the head.