Frederick IV, Landgrave of Thuringia

Frederick IV, the peaceable, even the Fool and the Younger ( * before November 30, 1384, † May 7, 1440 on the Runneburg in Weissensee) from the House of Wettin was Margrave of Meissen and Landgrave of Thuringia.

Life

Frederick was the son of Balthasar of Thuringia. In 1407 the Landgrave married Countess Anna († 1431), daughter of Count Günther XXX. of Schwarzburg- Blankenburg. From this marriage no children were born.

Landgrave Friedrich is considered to be relatively weak Regent, who was for a time very dependent on the influence of his wife and her relatives. To finance his lavish court life, he sold over and over again on a larger scale titles and estates.

In 1436, he ordered a general expulsion of the Jews from the country county Thuringia.

After his death the childless Landgraviate Thuringia fell to his two nephews, Frederick II and William III .. the claim to the more remote areas of Meissen he had already years earlier assigned for 15,000 florins to this.