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| • | Frederick IV, the Belligerent (the Warlike) (11 April 1370 – 4 January 1428, Altenburg), eldest son of Friedrich III, Landgraf of Thuringia and Katharina von Henneberg. Since death of his father 1381 he was Markgraf of Meißen, Landgraf of Thuringia und Elector of Saxony.
The son of Frederick III governed after the death of his uncle William II, Markgraf of Meißen in 1407 the Mark Meissen together with his brother William II as well as with his cousin Frederick (son of Balthasar). After sezession in 1410 and 1415 he received the Mark Meissen to autocracy.
In the German town war of 1388 he assisted Frederick V of Hohenzollern, burgrave of Nuremberg, and in 1391 did the same for the Teutonic Order against Wladislaus II of Poland. He supported Rupert III, Elector Palatine of the Rhine, in his struggle with King Wenceslaus for the German throne, probably because Wenceslaus refused to fulfil a promise to give him his sister Anna in marriage.
The danger to Germany from the Hussites induced Frederick to ally himself with Emperor Sigismund; and he took a leading part in the war against them, during the earlier years of which he met with considerable success. In the prosecution of this enterprise Frederick spent large sums of money, for which he received various places in Bohemia and elsewhere in pledge from Sigismund, who further rewarded him in 6 January 1423 with the vacant electoral Duchy of Saxony-Wittenberg; and Fredericks formal investiture followed at Ofen on the 1 August 1425. Thus ascended Frederick IV, who called himself Frederick I now, to the duke and elector. Thus spurred to renewed efforts against the Hussites, the elector was endeavouring to rouse the German princes to aid him in prosecuting this war when the Saxon army was almost annihilated at Aussig on the 16 August 1426.
After the death of his
Source: [wikipedia: frederick i, elector of saxony]
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