Show family the truce trace their descent decent from count Thas silo who lived about the beginning of vie ninth century centory and built a castle on hollern zollern hill bill in the alps near from this height his descendants derived their patronymic A separation tools took place about 1103 1105 when frederick IV founded tile the elder or Sw ablan and conrad TH in the younger or Fran conlan line the first was subdivided into the brandies branches of Hee bingen and sigmarie gen in 1576 from the emperor round mund frederick erick VI of the younger line flae received the investiture of the electorate of brandenburg in 1415 and founded the dynasty of kings of prussia and german emperors that reigned till november 1918 the branches of tile elder line continued unbroken till 1849 then the reigning princes surrendered their respective rights and principalities to the king of prussia for annual pensions lit I 1 arary digest |