He has not had a single ache or pain…and sleeps like a top.

He was buried in the royal mausoleum of the Friedenskirche at Potsdam. Prince Sigismund of Prussia (Franz Friedrich Sigismund; 15 September 1864 – 18 June 1866) was the fourth child and third son of Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia (later King of Prussia and German Emperor as Frederick III), and Victoria, Princess Royal, eldest daughter of the British Queen Victoria. [4] He planned to engage in banana and coffee planting on land he owned there.

[2], Prince Sigismund received the following awards:[5], This article is about the Prince Sigismund born in 1896. He was the fourth of the eight children of Friedrich III, German Emperor and King of Prussia and Victoria, Princess Royal.. Sigismund had seven siblings: The first grandchild of Queen Victoria to die, Prince Sigismund of Prussia (Franz Friedrich Sigismund) was born on September 15, 1864, at the Neues Palais in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia, now in Brandenburg, Germany. Because all the doctors normally used by the family had left with the army, Vicky was forced to consult doctors unknown to her who gave her the terrible news that her son had meningitis. For his nephew and namesake born in 1896, see, The generations are numbered from the ascension of, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Crown Prince Frederick William of Prussia, Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prince_Sigismund_of_Prussia_(1864–1866)&oldid=977294977, Articles needing additional references from December 2009, All articles needing additional references, Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 8 September 2020, at 01:55. Friedrich III, German Emperor and King of Prussia, Princess Auguste Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Unofficial Royalty Current Monarchies Websites, Royal Birthdays & Anniversaries: October 18 – 24, Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg, Princess of Lippe, Regent of Lippe.

Vicky’s first three children all had their own difficulties, and she had always felt more intimate with her five younger children. Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Handbuch über den Königlich Preußischen Hof und Staat, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Prince_Sigismund_of_Prussia_(1896–1978)&oldid=975143882, Imperial German Navy personnel of World War I, Grand Crosses of the Order of the Red Eagle, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing explicitly cited English-language text, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, 27. Sigismund’s convulsions grew increasingly worse until he died in agony on June 18, 1866, only 21 months old. 27-28, 131, 173. However, the day after Fritz left, Sigismund was unable to eat or sleep.

On June 4, 1866, Vicky’s husband Fritz was on his way to the front of the Austro-Prussian War. [1] He was a nephew of Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsarina Alexandra of Russia. He was the fourth of the eight children of Friedrich III, German Emperor and King of Prussia and Victoria, Princess Royal.Sigismund had seven siblings: He was the fourth of the eight children of Friedrich III, German Emperor and King of Prussia and Victoria, Princess Royal. The first grandchild of Queen Victoria to die, Prince Sigismund of Prussia (Franz Friedrich Sigismund) was born on September 15, 1864, at the Neues Palais in Potsdam, Kingdom of Prussia (now in Brandenburg, Germany).