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
Sophia means "wisdom" in Greek. It may refer to:
*Sophia (wisdom)
*Sophia (Gnosticism)
* Sophia (given name)
Places
* Niulakita or Sophia, an island of Tuvalu
* Sophia, Georgetown, a ward of Georgetown, Guyana
* Sophia, North Carolina, an uninco ...
(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, Brandenbu ...
. He is considered the founder of the Swabian line of the
House of Hohenzollern.
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).
See also
*
House of Hohenzollern
References
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*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
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