Count Friedrich IV of Zollern ( – ), also known as Burgrave Friedrich II of Nuremberg, was Burgrave of Nuremberg from 1204 to 1218 and Count of Zollern from 1218 until his death.

Life

Friedrich IV was the younger son of Friedrich I of Nuremberg-Zollern ( – ) and his wife Sophia of Raabs (died ) . After his father's death, he was appointed as his successor as Burgrave of Nuremberg. In 1218, Friedrich and his older brother Conrad I divided their inheritance: Conrad received the Franconian possessions and became Burgrave of Nuremberg; Friedrich received the ancestral

County of Zollern The House of Hohenzollern (, also , german: Haus Hohenzollern, , ro, Casa de Hohenzollern) is a German royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenb ...

. He is considered the founder of the Swabian line of the

House of Hohenzollern The House of Hohenzollern (, also , german: Haus Hohenzollern, , ro, Casa de Hohenzollern) is a German royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenbu ...

. He died and was succeeded as Count of Zollern by his son

Friedrich V Frederick V or Friedrich V may refer to: *Frederick V, Duke of Swabia (1164–1170) * Frederick V, Count of Zollern (d.1289) * Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg (c. 1333–1398), German noble * Frederick V of Austria (1415–1493), or Frederick I ...

(died 24 May 1289).

References

* *Max Spindler, Andreas Kraus: ''Geschichte Frankens bis zum Ausgang des 18. Jahrhunderts'' = ''Handbuch der bayrischen Geschichte'', vol 3.1, Beck, Munich, 1997, Burgraves of Nuremberg Counts of Zollern House of Hohenzollern 1180s births Year of birth uncertain 1250s deaths Year of death uncertain 13th-century German nobility {{Germany-noble-stub

Life

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