Nicholas IV of Bruntál (also known as ''Nicholas IV of Ratibor and Bruntál'', also ''Nicholas I of Opava-Ratibor'';
[There were three earlier dukes named Nicholas in the Opava; he was the first in the Opava-Ratibor branch] cz, Mikuláš IV. z Bruntálu; german: Nikolaus IV. von Freudenthal; – ) was a member of the Opava branch of the
Přemyslid dynasty. He was co-ruler of Ratibor and Bruntál with his brother
John II "the Iron".
Life
His parents were Duke
John I John I may refer to:
People
* John I (bishop of Jerusalem)
* John Chrysostom (349 – c. 407), Patriarch of Constantinople
* John of Antioch (died 441)
* Pope John I, Pope from 523 to 526
* John I (exarch) (died 615), Exarch of Ravenna
* John I o ...
of Opava-Ratibor and his wife Anna, a daughter of Duke
Henry V of Glogau-Sagan (d. 1369). His father had inherited the Duchy of Ratibor in 1365 as the sole heir and became the founder of the ''Opava-Ratibor'' line of the Opavian branch of the Přemyslid dynasty.
Nicholas IV was still a minor when his father died in 1380/1382. His older brother John II inherited the duchies of Ratibor, Krnov and Bruntál. Around 1385, a part of Bruntál was split off for Nicholas IV.
Nicholas died around 1406, unmarried and without issue. His share of Bruntál fell to his brother John II, who then held the whole Duchy of Bruntál.
References
* Ludwig Petry and Josef Joachim Menzel (eds.): ''Geschichte Schlesiens'', vol 1: ''Von der Urzeit bis zum Jahre 1526'', 5th revised edition, Thorbecke, Stuttgart 1988, , p. 191.
* Hugo Weczerka (ed.): ''Handbuch der historischen Stätten — Schlesien'', in the series ''Kröners Taschenausgabe'', vol. 316, Kröner, Stuttgart, 1977, , Genealogical tables on p. 600/601
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Footnotes
Silesian nobility
Dukes in Germany
14th-century births
15th-century deaths
15th-century German people
15th-century people from Bohemia
Opavian Přemyslids
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