Frederick IV of Fürstenberg

Frederick IV
Count of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
Predecessor	Joachim, Count of Fürstenberg
Successor	Egon VIII of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
Born	Friederich von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg 9 May 1563
Died	8 August 1617(1617-08-08) (aged 54) Dresden, Saxony
Noble family	Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
Spouse(s)	Elisabeth of Sulz Maria of Arco
Issue	Egon VIII, Count of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg
Father	Joachim, Count of Fürstenberg
Mother	Anna of Zimmern

Frederick IV of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (German: Friederich von Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg; 9 May 1563 – 8 August 1617), a member of the Swabian noble house of Fürstenberg, was Count (Graf) of Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg, today a part of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He was the son of Count Joachim of Fürstenberg (1538–1598) and his wife, Countess Anna of Zimmern.

Marriage and children

On 10 September 1584, he married Countess Elisabeth of Sulz. Together, they had the following children:

• William (1586-1618), married Baroness Polyxena Anna Benigna Popel of Lobkowicz
• Joachim Alwig (1587-1617)
• Ernst Egon VIII (1588-1635), married Anna Maria, daughter of Prince John George of Hohenzollern-Hechingen
• Jacob Louis of Fürstenberg-Wartenberg (1592-1627), married Helena Eleonora of Schwendi
• Anna Barbara (1594-1597)
• Elizabeth (1595-1602)
• Maria Johanna (1597)

Elisabeth died in 1601, and in 1606, Frederick married Maria of Arco, the widow of Wolfgang Rumpf vom Wullroß at Weitra, chamberlain of Emperor Rudolf II. She died however only one year later. The comital title was inherited by Frederick's surviving son Ernst Egon.

References

• Ersch, Johann Samuel (1850). "Fürstenberg". Allgemeine Encyklopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste in alphabetischer Folge (in German). Vol. 51. Leipzig: Brockhaus. pp. 493–495.