Frederick IV, Burgrave of Nuremberg
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Frederick IV | |
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Burgrave of Nuremberg | |
Born | 1287 |
Died | May 19, 1332 | (aged 45)
Noble family | Hohenzollern |
Spouse(s) | Margaret of Görz |
Issue | |
Father | Frederick III of Nuremberg |
Mother | Helene of Saxony |
Frederick IV of Nuremberg (1287–1332) from the House of Hohenzollern was Burgrave of Nuremberg from 1300 to 1332. He was the younger son of Burgrave Frederick III from his second marriage with the Ascanian princess Helene, daughter of Duke Albert I of Saxony.
Life[]
He succeeded to the burgraviate when his elder brother John I died in 1300. In 1307, he and King Albert I of Germany led an Imperial Army into the Battle of Lucka against the Wettin margraves Frederick I of Meissen and Dietrich IV of Lustia, and were defeated. Frederick IV fought more successfully alongside the Wittelsbach king Louis the Bavarian at the Battle of Mühldorf on 28 September 1322, capturing the Habsburg rival Frederick the Fair.
In 1331 he purchased the town of Ansbach, nucleus of the later Hohenzollern Principality of Ansbach established in 1398. A year later Frederick died, and was succeeded by his son, John II.
Family and children[]
He married before 2 August 1307 Margaret of Görz-Tyrol, a granddaughter of Duke Meinhard of Carinthia. Their children were:
- John II, Burgrave of Nuremberg (c. 1309–1357).
- (d. 1334).
- (d. 1365), Bishop of Regensburg in 1340-1365.
- (d. 1361); his daughter Anna of Nuremberg married Swantibor III, Duke of Pomerania.
- Berthold (1320–1365, Willibaldsburg), Bishop of Eichstädt in 1354-1365, Chancellor to Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
- Helene (d. after 1374), married to:
- c. 1321 Count ;
- 1341/46 Count Henry VII, Count of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg.
- Anna (d. after 1340), married .
- Margarete (d. after 13 November 1382), married 1332 Adolph I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein.
- Agnes (d. after 1363), married to:
- in 1336 , Count of Marstetten and ;
- ca. 1343 Albrecht II of Werdenberg and Heiligenberg.
- Katharina (d. after 11 March 1373), married in 1338 to .
Ancestors[]
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- 1287 births
- 1332 deaths
- Burgraves of Nuremberg
- House of Hohenzollern