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Ferdinand I, 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 Romania in 1889 by his uncle, King Carol I, whose only.

Ferdinand I de Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (n. 12/24 august 1865, Sigmaringen – d. 20 iulie 1927, Castelul Peleș, Sinaia), numit și Întregitorul și Ferdinand cel Loial, a fost al doilea rege al României, din 10 octombrie 1914 până la moartea sa.

On 24 May, King Ferdinand I of Romania and Iuliu Maniu (the head of Transylvania's Directory Council ) visited the frontline area and met with generals Constantin Prezan, Gheorghe Mărdărescu, and Ștefan Panaitescu at Békéscsaba.

On 10 October 1914, Carol I, died and Ferdinand succeeded him as King of Romania, reigning until his own death on 20 July 1927. Ferdinand presided over the country’s entry into World War I on the side of the Triple Entente powers against the Central Powers on 27 August 1916.

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. His family was part of the Catholic branch of the Prussian royal family Hohenzollern.

Ferdinand I, nicknamed Întregitorul ("the Unifier"), was King of Romania from 10 October 1914 until his death in 1927. Born in Sigmaringen in southwestern Germany, the Roman Catholic Prince Ferdinand Viktor Albert Meinrad of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. The name was later shortened simply to Hohenzollern after the extinction of the Hohenzollern ...

While the Romanian policy Carol I, King of Romania (1839-1914) was pro-German until 1914, his successor Ferdinand I, King of Romania (1865-1927) adopted a Francophile course in order to promote the principle of unification of all Romanians. This aim was given priority over the insufficiently advanced modernisation within the kingdom ...

Ferdinand, 1865–1927, king of Romania (1914–27), nephew of Carol I. The second son of the Prussian prince, Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, he was designated successor to the heirless Carol I in 1880. Source for information on Ferdinand (king of Romania): The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. dictionary.