Frederick IV, Burgrave of Nuremberg


Frederick IV of Nuremberg 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:
  1. John II, Burgrave of Nuremberg.
  2. Conrad III of Nuremberg.
  3. Frederick, Bishop of Regensburg in 1340-1365.
  4. Albert "der Schöne" ; his daughter Anna of Nuremberg married Swantibor III, Duke of Pomerania.
  5. Berthold, Bishop of Eichstädt in 1354-1365, Chancellor to Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
  6. Helene, married to:
  7. # Count Otto V of Orlamünde;
  8. # 1341/46 Count Henry VII, Count of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg.
  9. Anna, married Ulrich I of Leuchtenberg.
  10. Margarete, married 1332 Adolph I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein.
  11. Agnes, married to:
  12. # in 1336 Berthold V of Neuffen, Count of Marstetten and Graisbach;
  13. # ca. 1343 Albrecht II of Werdenberg and Heiligenberg.
  14. Katharina, married in 1338 to Eberhard of Wertheim.

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