John IV, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg

John IV, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg
John IV, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg
Born	1470; Pfreimd
Died	1 September 1531; Grünsfeld
Noble family	House of Leuchtenberg
Spouse(s)	Margaret of Schwarzburg
Father	Frederick V of Leuchtenberg
Mother	Dorothea of Rieneck

John IV, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg (1470 in Pfreimd – 1 September 1531 in Grünsfeld) was Landgrave of Leuchtenberg from 1487 until his death. He was the son and heir of Landgrave Frederick V of Leuchtenberg (d. 19 May 1487 in Nuremberg) and his wife Dorothea of Rieneck.

During the Landshut War of Succession, John fought on the side of Elector Palatine Philip. After the war, he was briefly expelled by Emperor Maximilian I. Nevertheless, he was hired by Duke George of Bavaria and later by Elector Palatine Louis V. Between 1513 and 1518, he served as governor of Amberg, earning an annual salary of 1000 guilders. This additional income allowed him to lend money to Elector Palatine Otto Henry and his brother Philip and to Margrave Frederick I "the Elder" of Brandenburg-Ansbach. However, most of the money was never repaid.

In 1515, he sold Neuhaus to Waldsessen Abbey. In 1530, he purchased Luhe and Wernberg from Hans Adam Wißpeck zu Volburg and granted city status to the town of Pfreimd, where he lived. He also introduced the primogeniture in Leuchtenberg.

Marriage and issue

He married Margaret of Schwarzburg (d. 1518) and had five children with her:

George III (1502-1555), Landgrave of Leuchtenberg from 1531
Anna (1506-1555), married Count Martin of Oettingen (d. 1549)
Elisabeth (1508-1560), married Count Charles Wolfgang of Oettingen (d. 1549)
John (1511-1572), who was mentally challenged
Christopher (d. 1554)

gollark: Can you post Lyric's Law? It appears to not be on the starboard.

gollark: Looping construct: jump backward one instruction (`L`)Branching construct: pick next instruction or previous instruction (`B`) - next if accumulator > 0, previous if accumulator <= 0.New branching construct: pick next instruction if user types `0` or previous if user types anything else (`N`)Making loop non-infinite: `E`, exits program if accumulator < 0.+1/-1 act on an accumulator initialized at zero (`+`/`-`)A program consists of a sequence of these instructions (first line) and arbitrary data encoded in base64 (second line) which is loaded into linear memory as bytes. These are executed left-to-right until the end is reached; when this occurs the direction of execution will be reversed.Infinite arbitrary data: command (`D`) to set accumulator to value of linear memory at position in accumulator.This language is called "HahaYourLawIsBad".

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gollark: Lyric's Second Law - "if one can name stuff after oneself, one will do so".

External links

Genealogy of the landgraves of Leuchtenberg at manfredhiebl.de

John IV, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg House of Leuchtenberg Born: 1470 Died: 1 September 1531
Preceded by Frederick V	Landgrave of Leuchtenberg 1487-1531	Succeeded by George III

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