Jobst Nicholas I, Count of Hohenzollern

Jobst Nicholas I of Hohenzollern (also Jost Nicholas I and Nicholas I. Jos, * 1433, † February 9, 1488 ), was regent of the County of Hohenzollern. He belonged to the Swabian line of the Hohenzollern.

Life

Jobst Nicholas has already appeared in his birth in 1433 under guardianship succeeded his father Eitel Friedrich I. (* 1384, † 1439) on. For a basis of a contract of inheritance of 1429 with the house Wuerttemberg existing risk was averted, that the possessions of the Swabian Hohenzollern would have been transferred to the Counts of Württemberg in the case of extinction of the line. Emperor Frederick III. awarded in 1471 to the Earl and later generations the rights to be allowed to operate mines and to mint coins. The Count was 1488 take control of Haigerloch. He also built the castle of Hohenzollern, the ancestral seat of the Hohenzollern, again. The castle was used since the Earl of Zollern as a residence.

In the previous generation was the political situation makes under Frederick XII. , Called the Öttinger, highly problematic. The family was in a virtually hopeless financial situation and threatened with extinction. Eitel Frederick I., the father Jobst Nicholas, helped to improve the situation. Now could be made by Jobst Nicholas significant area enlargements. The power position of the family was restored. Also Eitel Friedrich II, son of Jobst Nicholas was able to continue the positive trend.

Marriage and issue

Jobst Nicholas was married to Countess Agnes of becoming mountain Heiligenberg (1434-1467) since 1448. Her brother was John II of Will Berg, Bishop of Augsburg. The couple had the following children:

  • Friedrich ( * 1451, † March 8, 1505 ), Bishop of Augsburg
  • Eitel Friedrich II (* 1452, † 1512), reigning Count of Hohenzollern
  • Eitel Friedrich the Younger ( * 1454, † June 27, 1490 ), Dutch admiral
  • Friedrich Albrecht ( † July 16, 1483 ), was an imperial colonel before Utrecht
  • Friedrich Johann († November 18, 1483 ), was an imperial colonel at the Battle of Dendermonde
  • Helena († November 11, 1514 ) ∞ Johann II von Waldburg- Wolfegg († October 19, 1511 )
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