CDV Photographs MENDELSSOHN - Prinz Leopold von Hohenzollern c.1871

Albumen print mounted on CDV cardDimension: Approx 6.3 x 10.3cm Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern (1835-1905) was the head of the Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollern, and played a fleeting role in European power politics , in connection with the Franco-Prussian War. He was born into the dynasty's surviving Sigmaringen branch, which inherited all the dynasty's Swabian lands when the Hohenzollern-Hechingen branch became extinct. Leopold's parents were Josephine of Baden and Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern. Leopold was the older brother of King Carol I of Romania and father of the future King Ferdinand of Romania. Carol ascended the Romanian throne in 1866, and Leopold renounced his rights to the Romanian succession in favor of his sons in 1880.