Johann II. (Nuremberg)

Monument to Johann II in Berlin's Siegesallee by Ernst Herter from 1899

Johann II of Nuremberg (* before 1320 ( 1309 ?); † 1357 ), called "the acquirer" ( Conquæstor ), was burgrave of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern .

Life

Johann was the son of Burgrave Friedrich IV and Margaret of Carinthia. He inherited his father in 1332. He got his name through the increase in the Franconian house holdings of the Hohenzollern. Of decisive importance was the acquisition of the Kulmbacher Plassenburg with the county of Kulmbach from the inheritance of the Counts of Andechs-Meranien by inheritance contract, which became effective in 1340 when the previous owners, the Counts of Orlamünde , died out. In 1345 Burgrave Johann II was briefly caretaker and captain in the Mark Brandenburg and governor for the Wittelsbach Margrave of Brandenburg, Ludwig I ; with him begins the series of Hohenzollerns active in Brandenburg and Prussia. During the reign of John II, the plague broke out , which also claimed numerous victims in Nuremberg . Since the population blamed the Jews for the epidemic, numerous Nuremberg Jews were murdered without the burgrave intervening.

After Johann's death, his only son, Friedrich V, succeeded him in the burgrave office.

progeny

Johann II was married to Countess Elisabeth (or "Elsbeth") von Henneberg († 1377), daughter of Berthold VII . He had five children with her:

• Margarete
• Elisabeth
• Anna († 1383), abbess in the Birkenfeld monastery and in the Himmelkron monastery (1370-1383)
• Adelheid, as successor of her sister abbess in the Birkenfeld monastery
• Friedrich V (1333–1398), Burgrave of Nuremberg

monument

For the Berlin Siegesallee designed Ernst Herter a marble bust of John as a minor character of the monument group 10 adjacent to the central statue of Ludwig I of Brandenburg (Ludwig V) , unveiled on November 7 1899th

See also

• Tribe list of the Hohenzollern

literature

• Peter Mast: The Hohenzollern in life pictures. Verlag Styria, Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7205-2104-4 .
• Theodor Hirsch :  Johann II. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 273-275.
• Günther Schuhmann:  Johann II. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 504 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Max Döllner (1950), p. 173.
2. ^ Max Döllner : History of the development of the city of Neustadt an der Aisch up to 1933. Ph. C. W. Schmidt, Neustadt a. d. Aisch 1950, OCLC 42823280 ; New edition to mark the 150th anniversary of the Ph. C. W. Schmidt publishing house, Neustadt an der Aisch 1828–1978. Ibid 1978, ISBN 3-87707-013-2 , p. 150.

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich IV.	Burgrave of Nuremberg 1332–1357	Friedrich V.