Friedrich IV. (Nuremberg)

Seal of Frederick IV.

Friedrich IV of Nuremberg (* 1287 (or later); † May 19, 1332 ) was Burgrave of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern .

Life

Friedrich was the son of Burgrave Friedrich III. and Helene of Saxony. He took over the burgrave office when his older brother Johann I died in 1300 after only three years of reign. Frederick IV lost the battle of Lucka on May 31, 1307 as a royal military leader in a dispute between Albrecht I of the House of Habsburg and the Margrave of Meißen Frederick the bitten , also known as Frederick the Freidige and the Margrave of Lausitz , Dietrich IV .

In 1322 the burgrave decided the battle of Mühldorf by means of a successfully carried out ambush and took the Habsburg counter-king Friedrich the fair of Austria prisoner. As a result he received the Bergregal in his territory from Ludwig the Bavarian . In 1331 Frederick IV acquired the city of Ansbach for the Hohenzollern family by purchase. Friedrich died a year later, his successor was his and his wife Margarethe's son Johann II.

progeny

Friedrich IV. Was married to Margarethe (or Margareta) of Carinthia († 1348). Your children were:

Helena von Zollern-Nürnberg (* around 1307, † after November 14, 1378); ⚭ I: Count Otto VIII. (VII.) Of Weimar-Orlamünde († 1334); ⚭ II: (before January 27, 1346) Count Heinrich VIII (IX.) Von Schwarzburg († after June 11, 1358)
Johann II von Zollern (February 8, 1328 to October 7, 1357)
Conrad II. (IV.) Von Zollern († April 3, 1334)
Friedrich von Zollern-Nürnberg , Bishop of Regensburg (before 1325 until before February 21, 1368)
Anna von Zollern-Nuremberg
Anna von Zollern-Nürnberg († after 1340), ⚭ Ulrich I. von Leuchtenberg (1293–1334)
Margarethe von Zollern-Nürnberg (before 1325 until after November 13, 1382); ⚭ 1332 Count Adolf I of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein († 1370)
Agnes von Zollern-Nürnberg (before 1336 until after February 20, 1364)
Albrecht von Zollern , called Albrecht the Beautiful (approx. 1319 to April 4, 1361 in Baiersdorf?)
Berthold von Zollern -Nürnberg, Bishop of Eichstätt , (1320 to 13 September 1365, Willibaldsburg , Eichstätt)
Katharina von Zollern-Nürnberg (approx. 1323 to March 12, 1373), married to Count Eberhard I. von Wertheim

literature

Theodor Hirsch : Friedrich IV., Burgrave of Nuremberg . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 571-573.
Günther Schuhmann: Friedrich IV .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 522 f. ( Digitized version ).
Max Spindler , Andreas Kraus : History of Franconia up to the end of the 18th century. Munich 1997, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 .

Web links

Commons : Frederick IV of Nuremberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Herbert Heinritz: Bergbau in Oberfranken , Historisches Lexikon Bayerns from May 11, 2009, accessed on July 16, 2019.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann I.	Burgrave of Nuremberg 1300–1332	Johann II.

personal data
SURNAME	Friedrich IV.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Friedrich IV of Nuremberg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Burgrave of Nuremberg
DATE OF BIRTH	between 1287 and 1298
DATE OF DEATH	May 19, 1332

[1] Herbert Heinritz: Bergbau in Oberfranken , Historisches Lexikon Bayerns from May 11, 2009, accessed on July 16, 2019.