Background
He was the elder son of Frederick IV of Nuremberg and Margarete of Görz. He succeeded his father in 1332.
He was the elder son of Frederick IV of Nuremberg and Margarete of Görz. He succeeded his father in 1332.
From determining meaning the acquisition of the castle Plassenburg in Kulmbach with the county of Kulmbach by the contract of inheritance which became effective with the extinction of the present owners, the counts of Orlamünde in 1340. In the time of his government, came the outbreak of the plague, which claimed numerous victims in Nuremberg. Because the Jewish population was held responsible for the epidemic, numerous Nuremberg Jews were murdered, without the burgrave intervening against lieutenant