Friedrich I of Nuremberg (before 1139 – after 1 October 1200),
the first
Burgrave of
Nuremberg from the
House of Hohenzollern. He was the younger son of Count
Friedrich II of Zollern
Frederick II, Count of Zollern (died: 1142 or after 1145) was the eldest son of Frederick I, Count of Zollern, and became Count of House of Hohenzollern, Zollern after his father's death around 1125.
Frederick II supported Lothair III, Holy Roman ...
, and became
Count of Zollern as Friedrich III after the death of his other male relatives.
Life
From 1171 Friedrich I proved himself an adherent of the
Hohenstaufen party, namely of Holy Roman Emperor
Frederick I Barbarossa and his sons,
Friedrich V, Duke of Swabia Frederick V of Hohenstaufen (Pavia, 16 July 1164 – around 1170) was duke of Swabia from 1167 to his death.Decker-Hauff 1977, p. 355. He was the eldest son of Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick I Barbarossa and Beatrice I, Countess of Burgu ...
,
Holy Roman Emperor Henry VI, and German king
Philip of Swabia
Philip of Swabia (February/March 1177 – 21 June 1208) was a member of the House of Hohenstaufen and King of Germany from 1198 until his assassination.
The death of his older brother Emperor Henry VI in 1197 meant that the Hohenstaufen rule (whi ...
, and was party to the action by Barbarossa against
Henry the Lion in 1180.
Especially significant would prove the marriage of Friedrich, whose possessions at this time lay in the
Duchy of Swabia
The Duchy of Swabia (German: ''Herzogtum Schwaben'') was one of the five stem duchies of the medieval German Kingdom. It arose in the 10th century in the southwestern area that had been settled by Alemanni tribes in Late Antiquity.
While the ...
, to
Sophie of Raabs
Sophie is a version of the female given name Sophia, meaning "wise".
People with the name Born in the Middle Ages
* Sophie, Countess of Bar (c. 1004 or 1018–1093), sovereign Countess of Bar and lady of Mousson
* Sophie of Thuringia, Duchess of ...
around 1184, the only daughter of
Conrad II of Raabs
Conrad II of Raabs ( – ) was from about 1160 until his death Burgrave of the medieval Burgraviate of Nuremberg.
Life
Conrad was a count of Raabs, a family of edelfrei nobility, named after their first castle, Burg Raabs an der Thaya in ...
, and heiress of the
Burgraviate of Nuremberg
The Burgraviate of Nuremberg (german: Burggrafschaft Nürnberg) was a state of the Holy Roman Empire from the early 12th to the late 15th centuries. As a burgraviate, it was a county seated in the town of Nuremberg; almost two centuries pass ...
.
When he was granted the burgraviate by Henry VI after Conrad's death around 1191, he became the founder of both the Swabian branch of the Hohenzollern family, and of the
Franconian line of the (later imperial) House of Hohenzollern, which he renamed ''
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, Brandenb ...
'' at this time to distinguish it from the House of
Zollern. Through his wife, as the lone heiress of the Counts of Raabs and Abenberg, Friedrich was able to add possessions in
Austria and Franconia, respectively, to his line.
Family and children
With Sophie of Raabs he had following children:
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Conrad I, Burgrave of Nuremberg (died 1261). Eldest son.
(Franconian branch, later Electors of Brandenburg and Kings of Prussia)
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Friedrich IV of Zollern[''Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe'', JiříLouda & Michael Maclagan, 1981, pp. 178-179.] (died 30 December 1255). (Swabian branch)
# Elisabeth (died 1255), married to Landgrave Gerhard III of Leuchtenberg.
References
External links
genealogie-mittelalter.de
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Burgraves of Nuremberg
12th-century births
13th-century deaths
House of Hohenzollern
Counts of Zollern