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{{Short description|Prussian prince}}
{{About|the Prince Sigismund born in 1864|his nephew and namesake born in 1896|Prince Sigismund of Prussia (1896–1978)}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Prince Sigismund
| image        = H Graf - Prinz Sigismund von Preußen (Jan. 1866).jpg
| caption      =
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1864|9|15|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[New Palace (Potsdam)|New Palace]], [[Potsdam]], [[Kingdom of Prussia]]
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1866|6|18|1864|9|15|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[New Palace (Potsdam)|New Palace]], [[Potsdam]], [[Kingdom of Prussia]]
| burial_date  = 21 June 1866
| burial_place = [[Friedenskirche]], [[Potsdam]], [[Kingdom of Prussia]]
| full name    = {{Langx|de|Franz Friedrich Sigismund}}<br />{{langx|en|Francis Frederick Sigismund}}
| house        = [[House of Hohenzollern|Hohenzollern]]
| father       = [[Frederick III, German Emperor|Frederick William, Crown Prince of Prussia]] (later Frederick III)
| mother       = [[Victoria, Princess Royal]]
| image_size   = 200|
}}
{{House of Hohenzollern (Prussia)|frederick3}}
'''Prince Sigismund of Prussia''' ({{langx|de|Franz Friedrich Sigismund}}; 15 September 1864 – 18 June 1866) was the fourth child and third son of the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Prussia, later [[German Emperor Frederick III]] and [[Victoria, Princess Royal|Empress Victoria]]. He was a grandson of [[William I of Prussia]] and [[Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom]].
Prince Sigismund was born at the [[New Palace (Potsdam)|New Palace]] in [[Potsdam]], [[Germany]], in 1864 and known as "Sigi" to his family. He died from [[meningitis]] at the New Palace on 18 June 1866, aged twenty-one months. He was buried in the royal mausoleum of the [[Friedenskirche]] at [[Potsdam]]. His mother's grief and despair were intense as his father, leading the Prussian army into battle against Austria, had taken all available doctors thus making it impossible for her to alleviate the suffering of her child or prevent his death.
Sigismund was the first grandchild of Queen Victoria to die, almost 115 years before his last cousin, [[Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone]], who died in 1981.
==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Prince Sigismund of Prussia'''
|2= 2. [[Frederick III, German Emperor]]
|3= 3. [[Victoria, Princess Royal]]
|4= 4. [[William I, German Emperor]]<ref name="NDB-Friedrich III">{{NDB|5|487|489|Friedrich III|Meisner, Heinrich Otto|118535668}}</ref>
|5= 5. [[Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]]<ref name="NDB-Friedrich III">{{NDB|5|487|489|Friedrich III|Meisner, Heinrich Otto|118535668}}</ref>
|6= 6. [[Albert, Prince Consort|Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]<ref name=louda/>
|7= 7. [[Queen Victoria|Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom]]<ref name=louda>{{cite book|author1-link=Jiří Louda |author2-link=Michael Maclagan |first=Jiří |first2=Michael |isbn=1-85605-469-1 |last=Louda |last2=Maclagan |location=London |page=[https://archive.org/details/linesofsuccessio0000loud/page/34 34] |publisher=Little, Brown |title=Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe |url=https://archive.org/details/linesofsuccessio0000loud |year=1999}}</ref>
|8= 8. [[Frederick William III of Prussia]]<ref name="ADB-Wilhelm I">{{Cite ADB|42|527|692|Wilhelm I. (deutscher Kaiser)|Marcks, Erich ADB:Wilhelm I. (deutscher Kaiser)|Not found}}</ref>
|9= 9. [[Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz|Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]]<ref name="ADB-Wilhelm I"/>
|10= 10. [[Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach]]<ref name="NDB-Augusta">{{NDB|1|451|452|Augusta|Goetz, Walter|118651102}}</ref>
|11= 11. [[Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786–1859)|Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia]]<ref name="NDB-Augusta"/>
|12= 12. [[Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]]<ref name=louda/>
|13= 13. [[Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg]]<ref name=louda/>
|14= 14. [[Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn]]<ref name=louda/>
|15= 15. [[Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]]<ref name=louda/>
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==References==
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