Frederick IV (19 May 1332) was Burgrave of Nuremberg from 1300, until his death in 1332. He was the younger son of Burgrave Frederick III from his second marriage with the Ascanian princess Helene of Saxony.

Life

He succeeded to the

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when his elder brother

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died in 1300. In 1307, he and King

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led an Imperial Army into the

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against the Wettin margraves

Frederick I of Meissen Frederick I, called the Brave or the Bitten (German: ''Friedrich der Freidige'' or ''Friedrich der Gebissene''; 1257 – 16 November 1323) was Margrave of Meissen and Landgrave of Thuringia. Life Born in Eisenach, Frederick was the son of Albert ...

and Dietrich IV of Lustia, and were defeated. Frederick IV fought more successfully alongside the

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king

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at the

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on 28 September 1322, capturing the

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rival

Frederick the Fair Frederick the Fair () or the Handsome ( – 13 January 1330), from the House of Habsburg, was the duke of Austria and Styria from 1308 as well as the anti-king of Germany from 1314 until 1325 and then co-king until his death. Background Frederi ...

. In 1331 he purchased the town of

Ansbach Ansbach ( , ; ) is a city in the Germany, German state of Bavaria. It is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk, administrative region of Mittelfranken, Middle Franconia. Ansbach is southwest of Nuremberg and north of Munich, on the river Fränk ...

, nucleus of the later Hohenzollern

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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 (–1357). # Conrad III of Nuremberg (d. 1334). #

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(d. 1365),

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in 1340–1365. # Albert "der Schöne" (d. 1361); his daughter Anna of Nuremberg married Swantibor III, Duke of Pomerania. # Berthold (1320–1365, Willibaldsburg), Bishop of

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in 1354–1365, Chancellor to

Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV (; ; ; 14 May 1316 – 29 November 1378''Karl IV''. In: (1960): ''Geschichte in Gestalten'' (''History in figures''), vol. 2: ''F–K''. 38, Frankfurt 1963, p. 294), also known as Charles of Luxembourg, born Wenceslaus (, ), was H ...

. # Helene (d. after 1374), married to: ## Count Otto V of Orlamünde; ## 1341/46 Count Henry VII, Count of Schwarzburg-Blankenburg. # Anna (d. after 1340), married Ulrich I of Leuchtenberg. # Margarete (d. after 13 November 1382), married 1332 Adolph I, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein. # Agnes (d. after 1363), married to: ## in 1336 Berthold V of Neuffen, Count of Marstetten and Graisbach; ## Albrecht II of Werdenberg and

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. # Katharina (d. after 11 March 1373), married in 1338 to Eberhard of Wertheim.

References

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