# Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (born 1868)

Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (German: Karl Anton Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Prinz von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen; 1 September 1868 – 21 February 1919) was a member of the Princely House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. Karl Anton was the third and youngest son of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern and Infanta Antónia of Portugal. Karl Anton's elder brothers were William, Prince of Hohenzollern and Ferdinand I of Romania.

## Marriage and issue

On 28 May 1894 in Brussels, Karl Anton married his cousin Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium (Brussels 18 October 1872 - Namur 6 January 1958), daughter of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and his wife Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. In 1909 the couple purchased Namedy castle near Andernach. Karl Anton served as a Prussian Lieutenant general during World War I and died after his return to Namedy in 1919, at age 50.
Karl Anton and Joséphine Caroline had four children:
* Princess Stephanie Josephine Karola Philippine Leopoldine Marie of Hohenzollern (8 April 1895 – 7 August 1975) she married Prince Joseph Ernst Fugger of Glött, on 18 May 1920 and they were divorced in 1943.
* Princess Marie Antoinette Wilhelmine Auguste Viktoria of Hohenzollern (23 October 1896 – 4 July 1965) she married Baron Egon Eyrl von und zu Waldgries und Liebenaich on 27 November 1924. They have four children:
** Baroness Veronika Eyrl von und zu Waldgries und Liebenaich (15 August 1926 – 13 August 1942) she died at the age of fifteen.
** Baroness Stephanie Eyrl von und zu Waldgries und Liebenaich (17 December 1930 – 19 January 1998) she married Josef von Zallinger-Stillendorf on 27 November 1950. They have four children.
** Baroness Elisabeth Eyrl von und zu Waldgries und Liebenaich (15 May 1932 – 8 July 2011) she married Bernhard Baron von Hohenbuhel gennant Heufler of Rasen on 9 August 1954. They have six children.
** Baron Carl Josef Eyrl von und zu Waldgries und Liebenaich (19 January 1935) he married Countess Isabelle Ceschi a Santa Croce on 12 April 1975. They have four children.
* Prince Albrecht Ludwig Leopold Tassilo of Hohenzollern (28 September 1898 – 30 July 1977) he married Ilse Margot von Friedeburg on 19 May 1921. They have five children:
** Princess Josephine Wilhelma of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (15 February 1922 – 11 July 2006)
** Princess Luise-Dorothea of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (9 February 1924 – 11 November 1988) she married Count Egbert of Plettenberg on 11 June 1947. They have seven children.
** Princess Rose-Margarethe of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (19 February 1930 – 16 February 2005) she married Edgar Pfersdorf on 15 September 1955. They have four children.
** Princess Maria of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1 April 1935 – 1 April 1935) she died at one day old.
** Prince Godehard-Friedrich of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (17 April 1939 – 21 May 2001) he married Heide Hansen on 29 August 1971. They have two children.
* Princess Henriette Leopoldine Wilhelmine of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (29 September 1907 – 3 October 1907) she died at four days old.

## Honours and awards
### German orders and decorations

* Hohenzollern: Cross of Honour of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern, 1st Class with Swords
* Prussia:
** Knight of the Red Eagle, 1st Class, 20 October 1890; Grand Cross with Swords
** Grand Commander's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern
** Iron Cross (1914), 1st Class
** Long Service Award
* Anhalt: Grand Cross of Albert the Bear, 1889
* Baden:
** Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 1900
** Grand Cross of the Order of Berthold the First, 1900
* Bavaria:
** Knight of St. Hubert, 1905
** Grand Cross of the Military Merit Order
* Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order
* Mecklenburg-Strelitz: Cross for Distinction in War
* Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: Grand Cross of the White Falcon

### Foreign orders and decorations

* Austria-Hungary: Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of Leopold, 1900
* Belgium: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, 1894
* Empire of Japan:
** Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum
** Service Cross
* Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion
* Ottoman Empire:
** Order of Osmanieh, 1st Class
** Gold Imtiyaz Medal
* Kingdom of Portugal:
** Grand Cross of the Sash of the Two Orders
** Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword, with Collar
* Kingdom of Romania:
** Grand Cross of the Star of Romania
** Grand Cross of the Crown of Romania
** Military Virtue Cross, 1st Class
* United Kingdom: Honorary Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 28 January 1907 (expelled in 1915)

## Ancestry

Ancestors of Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern (born 1868) :