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

Life

Frederick IV was the younger son of Frederick I of Nuremberg-Zollern

Frederick I, Burgrave of Nuremberg

Frederick I of Nuremberg , the first Burgrave of Nuremberg from the House of Hohenzollern. He was elder son of Count Frederick II of Zollern. He was also Count of Zollern as Frederick III.-Life:...

 ( – ) and his wife Sophia of Raabs (died ) . After his father's death, he was appointed as his successor as Burgrave of Nuremberg. In 1218, Frederick and his older brother Conrad I

Conrad I, Burgrave of Nuremberg

Conrad I of Nuremberg was a Burgrave of Nuremberg of the House of Hohenzollern. He was the younger son of Frederick I of Nuremberg and Sofie of Raabs...

 divided their inheritance: Conrad received the Franconian possessions and became Burgrave of Nuremberg; Frederick received the ancestral County of Zollern. He is considered the founder of the Swabian line of the House of Hohenzollern

House of Hohenzollern

The House of Hohenzollern is a noble family and royal dynasty of electors, kings and emperors of Prussia, Germany and Romania. It originated in the area around the town of Hechingen in Swabia during the 11th century. They took their name from their ancestral home, the Burg Hohenzollern castle near...

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He died and was succeeded as Count of Zollern by his son Frederick V (died 24 May 1289).