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Frederick of Hohenzollern Biography

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FREDERICK I (1371-1440). First Elector of Brandenburg, of the house of Hohenzollern, successor (1398) of his father, Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg. He served in the Hungarian army and rescued King Sigismund at the battle of Nicopolis (1396). In 1401 he married Elizabeth of Bavaria. For the support which he gave to Sigismund as candidate for the Imperial crown, he was invested in 1417 with the electoral dignity in Brandenburg (of which he had been administrator for seven years), thus becoming the founder of the royal Prussian dynasty. Frederick quarreled with Sigismund in 1423. He sold his rights as Burgrave of Nuremberg to the city in 1427. In 1438 he was a candidate for the throne of Germany. Consult Brandenburg, König Sigmund and Kurfürst Friedrich I. (Berlin, 1891) .

The New International Encyclopaedia, Vol. IX (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 207.