Frederick IV of Nuremberg (1287–1332), Burgrave

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 of Nuremberg

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 from House of Hohenzollern

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. He was younger son of Frederick III of Nuremberg from his second marriage with Helene of Saxony.

Life

He succeeded to the burgraviate when his older brother John I died in 1300.

Fought alongside Louis the Bavarian at the Battle of Mühldorf

Battle of Mühldorf

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 on September 28, 1322.

Frederick IV acquired the town Ansbach

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 in 1331 for the Hohenzollern by purchase.

A year later Frederick died, and was succeeded by his son, John II.

Family and children

He married before 2 August 1307 Margarete of Görz. Their children were:

1. John II of Nuremberg (ca. 1309–1357).
2. Conrad III of Nuremberg (d. 1334).
3. Friedrich (d. 1365), Bishop of Regensburg in 1340-1365.
4. Albrecht "der Schöne" (d. 1361).
5. Berthold (1320–1365, Willibaldsburg), Bishop of Eichstädt
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    in 1354-1365, Chancellor to Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
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6. Helene (d. after 1374), married to:
   1. ca 1321 Count Otto V of Orlamünde;
   2. 1341/46 Count Henry VII of Schwarzburg.
7. Anna (d. after 1340), married Landgrave Ulrich I of Leuchtenberg.
8. Margarete (d. after 13 November 1382), married 1332 Count Adolf I of Nassau-Wiesbaden.
9. Agnes (d. after 1363), married to:
   1. in 1336 Berthold V of Neuffen, Count of Marstetten
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       and Graisbach;
   2. ca. 1343 Count Albrecht II of Werdenberg
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       and Heiligenberg
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10. Katharina (d. after 11 March 1373), married 1338 Count Eberhard of Wertheim.