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Frederick IV of Fürstenberg


FieldValue
nameFrederick IV
birth_nameFriederich von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
birth_date9 May 1563
death_date
death_placeDresden, Saxony
titleCount of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
noble familyFürstenberg-Heiligenberg
predecessorJoachim, Count of Fürstenberg
successorEgon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
spouseElisabeth of Sulz
Maria of Arco
issueEgon VIII, Count of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
fatherJoachim, Count of Fürstenberg
motherAnna of Zimmern

Maria of Arco

Frederick IV of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (; 9 May 1563 – 8 August 1617), a member of the Swabian noble house of Fürstenberg, was Count (Graf) of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg, today a part of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was the son of Count Joachim of Fürstenberg (1538–1598) and his wife, Countess Anna of Zimmern.

Marriage and children

On 10 September 1584, he married Countess Elisabeth of Sulz. Together, they had the following children:

  • William (1586-1618), married Baroness Polyxena Anna Benigna Popel of Lobkowicz
  • Joachim Alwig (1587-1617)
  • Ernst Egon VIII (1588-1635), married Anna Maria, daughter of Prince John George of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
  • Jacob Louis of Fürstenberg-Wartenberg (1592-1627), married Helena Eleonora of Schwendi
  • Anna Barbara (1594-1597)
  • Elizabeth (1595-1602)
  • Maria Johanna (1597)

Elisabeth died in 1601, and in 1606, Frederick married Maria of Arco, the widow of Wolfgang Rumpf vom Wullroß at Weitra, chamberlain of Emperor Rudolf II. She died however only one year later. The comital title was inherited by Frederick's surviving son Ernst Egon.

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