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{{infobox royalty
| name = Frederick I
| title = Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach
| image = Friedrich II. Markgraf von Brandenburg-Ansbach.jpg
| caption = 
| succession = [[Margrave of Ansbach]]
| reign = 1486–1536
| predecessor = [[Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg|Albert III]]
| successor = [[Georg, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach|George]]
| succession1 = [[Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach|Margrave of Kulmbach]]
| reign1 = 1495–1515
| predecessor1 = [[Siegmund, Margrave of Bayreuth|Siegmund]]
| successor1 = [[Kasimir, Margrave of Bayreuth|Kasimir]]
| house = [[House of Hohenzollern|Hohenzollern]]
| father = [[Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg]]
| mother = [[Anna of Saxony (d. 1512)|Anna of Saxony]]
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Sophia of Poland]]|1479|1512|end=d}}
| issue = {{Plainlist|
* [[Kasimir, Margrave of Bayreuth|Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach]]<br />Margarete of Brandenburg-Ansbach
* [[Georg, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach|George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach]]
* [[Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach|Sofie, Duchess of Legnica]]
* Anna, Duchess of Cieszyn
* [[Albert, Duke of Prussia|Albert, 1st Duke of Prussia]]
* [[Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach|Johann, Viceroy of Valencia]]
* [[Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach|Elisabeth, Margravine of Baden-Durlach]]
* [[Barbara of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach|Barbara, Landgravine of Leuchtenberg]]
* Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach<br />[[William of Brandenburg|Wilhelm, Archbishop of Riga]]
* John Albert, [[Archbishop of Magdeburg]]
* Gumprecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach
}}
| birth_date = {{birth date|1460|5|8|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Ansbach]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1536|4|4|1460|5|8|df=yes}}
| death_place = Ansbach
}}

'''Frederick I of Ansbach and Bayreuth''' (also known as '''Frederick V'''; {{langx|de|Friedrich V. von Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach}} or {{lang|de|Friedrich der Ältere}}; 8 May 1460 – 4 April 1536) was born at [[Ansbach]] as the eldest son of [[Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg]] by his second wife [[Anna of Saxony (d. 1512)|Anna]], daughter of [[Frederick II, Elector of Saxony]]. His elder half-brother was the Elector [[John Cicero]] of Brandenburg. Friedrich succeeded his father as [[Margrave of Ansbach]] in 1486 and his younger brother [[Siegmund, Margrave of Bayreuth|Siegmund]] as [[Margrave of Bayreuth]] in 1495.

After depleting the finances of the margraviate with his lavish lifestyle, Frederick I was deposed by his two elder sons, [[Kasimir, Margrave of Bayreuth|Casimir]] and [[George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach|George]], in 1515. He was then locked up at [[Plassenburg|Plassenburg Castle]] by his eldest son Casimir in a tower room from which he could not escape for 12 years. Thereupon, his son Casimir took up the rule of the Margraviate of Bayreuth (Kulmbach) and his son George took up the rule of the Margraviate of Ansbach. However, the overthrow of Frederick did outrage his other younger sons and led to far-reaching political countermeasures. When Elector [[Joachim I, Elector of Brandenburg|Joachim I of Brandenburg]] visited [[Kulmbach]] during his journey to [[Augsburg]], and wanted to plead for Frederick's release, he was nevertheless denied entry to Plassenburg Castle. The dispute was finally cleared when an agreement was reached in 1522, in which the demands of the younger sons of Frederick were met.

==Family and children==
On 14 February 1479, at [[Frankfurt (Oder)]], Frederick I was married to Princess [[Sophia of Poland]] (6 April 1464 – 5 October 1512),{{sfn|Ward|Prothero|Leathes|1934|p=table 37}} daughter of King [[Casimir IV of Poland]] by his wife [[Elizabeth of Austria (1436–1505)|Elisabeth of Austria]], and sister of King [[Sigismund I the Old|Sigismund I of Poland]]. They had seventeen children:
# [[Kasimir, Margrave of Bayreuth|Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach]] (27 September 1481, Ansbach – 21 September 1527, [[Buda]]).{{sfn|Ward|Prothero|Leathes|1934|p=table 37}}
# Elisabeth, died young.
# Margarete of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach (10 January 1483, Ansbach – 10 July 1532).
# [[George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach]] (4 March 1484, Ansbach – 27 December 1543, Ansbach).{{sfn|Ward|Prothero|Leathes|1934|p=table 37}}
# [[Sophie of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach]] (10 March 1485, Ansbach – 24 May 1537, [[Liegnitz]]), married on 14 November 1518 to Duke [[Frederick II of Legnica]].
# Anna of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach (5 May 1487, Ansbach – 7 February 1539), married on 1 December 1518 to Duke [[Wenceslaus II, Duke of Cieszyn|Wenceslaus II of Cieszyn]].
# Barbara, died young.
# [[Albert of Prussia|Albert, 1st Duke of Prussia]] (17 May 1490, Ansbach – 20 March 1568, Castle [[Tapiau]]), Grand Master of the [[Teutonic Order]] from 1511 to 1525, and first [[Duke of Prussia]] from 1525.{{sfn|Ward|Prothero|Leathes|1934|p=table 37}}
# Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach (13 June 1491, Ansbach – ca. 1497).
# [[Johann of Brandenburg-Ansbach|Johann, Viceroy of Valencia]] (9 January 1493, [[Plassenburg]] – 5 July 1525, [[Kingdom of Valencia|Valencia]])
# [[Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach]] (25 March 1494, Ansbach – 31 May 1518, [[Pforzheim]]), married in Pforzheim on 29 September 1510 to Margrave [[Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach|Ernest of Baden-Durlach]].
# [[Barbara of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach]] (24 September 1495, Ansbach – 23 September 1552), married in [[Plassenburg]] on 26 July 1528 to Landgrave [[George III, Landgrave of Leuchtenberg|George III of Leuchtenberg]].
# Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach (17 January 1497, Ansbach – 20 August 1536, [[Genoa]]), a canon in [[Würzburg]] and [[Salzburg]].
# [[William of Brandenburg|Wilhelm, Archbishop of Riga]] (30 June 1498, Ansbach – 4 February 1563, [[Riga]])
# [[John Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach|John Albert, Archbishop of Magdeburg]] (20 September 1499, Ansbach – 17 May 1550, [[Halle, Saxony-Anhalt|Halle]]) 
# Frederick Albert, died young.
# Gumprecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach (16 July 1503, Ansbach – 25 June 1528, [[Naples]]), a canon in [[Bamberg]].

==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach''' (1460-1536)
|2= 2. [[Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg]] (1414-1486)
|3= 3. [[Anna of Saxony (d. 1512)|Anna of Saxony]] (1437-1512)
|4= 4. [[Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg]] (1371-1440)
|5= 5. [[Elisabeth of Bavaria-Landshut]] (1383-1442)
|6= 6. [[Frederick II, Elector of Saxony]] (1412-1464)
|7= 7. [[Margarete of Austria-Styria]] (1416-1486)
|8= 8. [[Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg]] (1333-1398)
|9= 9. [[Elisabeth of Meissen]] (1329-1375)
|10= 10. [[Frederick, Duke of Bavaria-Landshut]] (1339-1393)
|11= 11. [[Maddalena Visconti]] (1366-1404)
|12= 12. [[Frederick I, Elector of Saxony]] (1370-1428)
|13= 13. [[Catherine of Brunswick-Lüneburg|Catherine of Brunswick]] (1395-1442)
|14= 14. [[Ernest, Duke of Austria]] (1377-1424)
|15= 15. [[Cymburgis of Masovia]] (1394-1397)
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==References==
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==Sources==
*{{cite book |title=The Cambridge Modern History |volume=XIII |editor-first1=A.W. |editor-last1=Ward |editor-first2=G.W. |editor-last2=Prothero |editor-first3=Stanley |editor-last3=Leathes |publisher=Cambridge at the University Press |year=1934 }}

==External links==
*{{cite web |last=Marek |first=Miroslav |url=http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hohz/hohenz2.html |title= House of Hohenzollern |publisher= Genealogy.EU}}

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