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Ferdinand I (Ferdinand Viktor Albert Meinrad; 24 August 1865 – 20 July 1927), nicknamed Întregitorul ("the Unifier"), was King of Romania from 1914 until his death in 1927. Ferdinand was the second son of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Infanta Antónia of Portugal, daughter of Ferdinand II of Portugal and Maria II of Portugal.
Jul 20, 1998 · Ferdinand I (born Aug. 24, 1865, Sigmaringen, Prussia [now in Germany]—died July 20, 1927, Bucharest, Rom.) was the king of Romania from 1914 to 1927, who, though a Hohenzollern and a believer in German strength, joined the Allies in World War I. The son of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Ferdinand was adopted as crown prince of ...
Ferdinand I, nicknamed Întregitorul, was King of Romania from 1914 until his death in 1927. Ferdinand was the second son of Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, and Infanta Antónia of Portugal, daughter of Ferdinand II of Portugal and Maria II of Portugal.
Following the renunciations, first of his father’s, in 1880, and then of his elder brother’s, Prince Wilhelm of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, in 1886, Ferdinand became the heir-presumptive to the throne of his childless uncle, King Carol I of Romania, who would reign until his death in October 1914.
Mar 31, 2018 · King Ferdinand I of Romania. (b. August 24, 1865, Sigmaringen, Germany – d. July 20, 1927, Sinaia, Romania) Ferdinand Viktor Albert Meinrad of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen came from a family of dynastic tradition, as the son of the prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and of the Infanta of Portugal, Princess Antonia of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
King Ferdinand I of Romania (1865-1927), having begun the war as a careful neutral, finally declared for the Allies in August 1916. Sponsored Links Suffering prompt invasion by the Germans and exile to the north-east of the country, Ferdinand nevertheless emerged from the war victorious having succeeded in extracting notable territorial gains ...
Ferdinand was Emperor Franz II (I)’s elder son and thus the ‘legitimate’ heir to his father’s throne. As he was an epileptic, he was not exactly a promising prospect for the office of emperor – as a result, he was ridiculed as ‘Nandl the idiot’ (‘Nandl der Trottel’ or ‘Nanderltrotterl’).
