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| name = Friedrich XI, Count of Hohenzollern
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| noble family = [[House of Hohenzollern]]
| father = Friedrich of Strasbourg
| mother = Margaret of Hohenburg-Wildenburg
| spouse = Adelheid of Fürstenberg-Zindelstein
| issue = {{plainlist|
* [[Friedrich XII, Count of Hohenzollern|Friedrich XII]]
* [[Eitel Friedrich I, Count of Hohenzollern|Eitel Friedrich I]]
* Anna
* Friedrich, canon in Strasbourg
* Friedrich, bishop of Constance
* Friedrich, monk
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| death_date = {{death date|1401|11|26|df=y}}
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| burial_place = Stetten Abbey
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'''Friedrich XI, Count of Hohenzollern''' (died 26 November 1401), nicknamed ''Friedrich the Elder'' was a German nobleman.  He was a member of the [[House of Hohenzollern]] and a ruling Count of [[Hohenzollern-Hechingen]].
== Life ==
Friedrich was the younger son of Count [[Friedrich of Strasbourg]], from his marriage to Margaret, the daughter of Count Burchard V of Hohenberg-Wildenberg.
After the death of [[Friedrich IX, Count of Hohenzollern|Friedrich IX]], Friedrich XI became the senior member of the [[House of Hohenzollern]].  As such, he was the [[Vogt]] of Stetten Abbey.
He was a member of the [[Lion League]], which joined the [[Swabian League of Cities]] in 1382.  When the latter clashed with Count [[Eberhard II, Count of Württemberg|Eberhard II]] of Württemberg, Friedrich XI managed to break off the services he had promised to Count Eberhard.
In 1388, he regained the town of [[Hechingen]], which bishop [[Friedrich of Blankenheim|Friedrich]] of Strasbourg had held.  After a town fire in 1401, he granted the town a letter of liberty.
Friedrich XI died in 1401, and was buried in the Hohenzollern crypt in Stetten Abbey.
== Marriage and issue ==
Before 12 January 1377, Friedrich XI married Adelheid (d. 1413), a daughter of Count Hugo of Fürstenberg-Zindelstein.  Her brother Johann was the last Count of Fürstenberg-Haslah.  Johann died childless in the [[Battle of Sempach]] of 1386, and Friedrich XI inherited [[Bräunlingen]] from him, which gave rise to a lengthy dispute with the main line of the [[Fürstenberg (princely family)|Fürstenberg]] family.
From his marriage with Adelheid, Friedrich had the following children:
* [[Friedrich XII, Count of Hohenzollern|Friedrich XII]] (d. 1443), Count of Hohenzollern, married in 1407 Anna of Sulz (d. 1438)
* [[Eitel Friedrich I, Count of Hohenzollern|Eitel Friedrich I]] (d. 1439), Count of Hohenzollern, married in 1432 to Ursula Razüns (d. 1477). He had issue:
** [[Jobst Nikolaus I, Count of Hohenzollern]]
* Anna, a nun
* Friedrich, a [[canon (priest)|canon]] in Strasbourg
* [[Friedrich of Zollern|Friedrich]] (d. 1436), Bishop of Constance as Friedrich III
* Friedrich, a monk
==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Frederick XI, Count of Hohenzollern'''
|2= 2. [[Friedrich of Strasbourg|Count Friedrich of Strasbourg]]
|3= 3. Countess Margaret of Hohenburg-Wildenburg
|4= 4. [[Frederick VIII, Count of Zollern]]
|5= 5. (?)
|6= 6. Count Burchard V. of Hohenberg-Wildberg
|7= 7. Adelheid of Vaihingen (?)
|8= 8. [[Frederick VI, Count of Zollern]]
|9= 9. Kunigunde of Baden
|12= 12. Count Burchard VI of Hohenberg-Nagold-Haigerloch
|13= 13. Liutgard von Tübingen
|16= 16. [[Frederick V, Count of Zollern]]
|17= 17. Udilhild of Dillingen
|18= 18. [[Rudolf I, Margrave of Baden-Baden]]
|19= 19. Kunigunde of Eberstein
|24= 24. Count Burchard V of Hohenberg
|25= 25. Mechtild von Tübingen
|26= 26. Hugo IV of Tübingen-Blauberen
|27= 27. Beatrix von Eberstein
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== References ==
* Count Rudolph Stillfried-Alcántara and Traugott Maercker: ''Hohenzollerische Forschungen'', C. Reimarus, 1847, p.&nbsp;203 ff.
* E. G. Johler: ''Geschichte, Land- und Ortskunde der souverainen teutschen Fürstenthümer Hohenzollern Hechingen und Sigmaringen'', Stettin'sche Buchhandlung, Ulm, 1824, [https://books.google.com/books?id=BHAAAAAAcAAJ&q=johler+hohenzollern Online]
* Gustav Schilling: ''Geschichte des Hauses Hohenzollern in genealogisch fortlaufenden Biographien aller seiner Regenten von den ältesten bis auf die neuesten Zeiten, nach Urkunden und andern authentischen Quellen'', Fleischer, Leipzig, 1843, [https://books.google.com/books?id=JdlPAAAAcAAJ&q=schilling+hohenzollern Online]
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