Prince Sigismund | |||||
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Prince Sigismund of Prussia | |||||
Born |
Kiel, Germany |
27 November 1896||||
Died | 14 November 1978 Puntarenas, Costa Rica |
(aged 81)||||
Spouse | Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (m. 1919) | ||||
Issue |
Barbara, Duchess Christian Louis of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Prince Alfred |
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House | Hohenzollern | ||||
Father | Prince Henry of Prussia | ||||
Mother | Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine |
Full name | |
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Wilhelm Viktor Karl August Heinrich Sigismund |
Prince Sigismund of Prussia (Wilhelm Viktor Karl August Heinrich Sigismund; 27 November 1896 at Kiel – 14 November 1978 at Puntarenas, Costa Rica), was the second son of Prince Henry of Prussia and his wife, Princess Irene of Hesse and by Rhine. He was a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsarina Alexandra of Russia and a great-grandson of Queen Victoria through both his parents.
On 11 July 1919 at Hemmelmark, he married Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg (4 March 1899 – 16 February 1989), eldest daughter of Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg. They had two children:
In 1927, Prince Sigismund and his family resettled in Costa Rica. He planned to engage in banana and coffee planting on land he owned there. They were accompanied by only a governess, as the children were still young.
Sigismund died in Puntarenas on 14 November 1978.