Christoph, Count of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch

Christoph was the third surviving son of Count Karl I of Hohenzollern (1516–1576) from his marriage to Anna (1512–1579), daughter of Ernst, Margrave of Baden-Durlach.

When Karl I died in 1576, the County of Hohenzollern was divided into Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Haigerloch.

Christoph founded the elder Haigerloch line, which died out with his younger son.

1546), the only daughter of Adam von Wolfstein, Freiherr zu Obersulzburg (d. 1547) by his second wife, Maria Salome von Tengen und Nellenburg, who had had a failed marriage with a citizen of Bregenz named Paul Fetz.

In 1577, in Sigmaringen, Christoph married Baroness Catherine von Welsperg and Primör (died after 1608), a daughter of Baron Christoph of Welsperg und Primör (1528-1580) and his wife, Baroness Eva Dorothea Lucia von Firmian (1535-1584).