Legends state that a "White Lady" haunted the House of Hohenzollern; one story is that in the early 17th century, a young noblewoman named Adelgunde was raped by Joachim Frederick of Hohenzollern, and that afterwards she threw herself off a cliff in shame, with the result that her ghost appeared at the death of every Hohenzollern over the next three centuries. No evidence exists to support this story.