Princess Adelgunde, Princess of Hohenzollern

Princess Adelgunde of Bavaria (Adelgunde Marie Auguste Therese Prinzessin von Bayern; 17 October 1870 – 4 January 1958) was a member of the royal House of Wittelsbach by birth and became the Princess of Hohenzollern through her marriage to William, Prince of Hohenzollern.

Biography Early life Princess Adelgunde was born on 17 October 1870 in Lindau, Bavaria, as the second child and eldest daughter of King Ludwig III of Bavaria and Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este. She grew up in a large family with twelve siblings and spent the vast majority of her happy childhood split between the royal family's primary country estate at Schloss Leutstetten in Starnberg and their summer villa near Lake Constance in Lindau. Marriage and later life During the First World War, on 20 January 1915, she married Prince Wilhelm of Hohenzollern in Munich. Her husband was the eldest son of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern and Infanta Antónia of Portugal. Following the 1918 post-war collapse of the German Empire and the abolition of royal privileges, the couple withdrew from public life to their estates in Sigmaringen. The marriage produced no children.

Following her husband's death in October 1927, Princess Adelgunde remained unmarried and focused her later years on local charitable and religious initiatives in Baden-Württemberg. She died in Sigmaringen on 4 January 1958 at the age of 87 and was buried in the family crypt at Kloster Hedingen. Ancestry