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Prince Leopold Stefan Karl Anton Gustav Eduard Tassilo von Hohenzollern ( 22 September 1835 – 8 June 1905 ) was the head of the Swabia n branch of the House Of Hohenzollern , and played a minor role in European power politics. He was born of the dynasty's surviving Sigmaringen branch, which inherited all the dynasty's Swabian lands when the Hohenzollern-Hechingen branch went extinct. Leopold's parents were Josephine Of Baden and Karl Anton , Prince of Hohenzollern . Leopold was the father of future King Ferdinand I Of Romania , and was the brother of Prince, later King, Carol I Of Romania . After the Spanish Revolution Of 1868 that overthrew Queen Isabella II , Leopold was offered the Spanish crown. This offer was supported by the Prussian Prime Minister Otto Von Bismarck , but rejected by the French emperor Napoleon III . Leopold was forced to decline the offer, and due to the extra demands made by the French government and the sending of the Ems Telegram the result was the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, which lead to the fall of emperor Napoleon III and the setting up of the French Third Republic . In 1861 Prince Leopold married Antonia Of Portugal , daughter of Queen Maria II Of Portugal and King Consort Ferdinand II Of Portugal of Kohary and Saxe-Coburg And Gotha . They had the following children:
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