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Coffin of Rudolf and his wife in the Ducal Crypt, Vienna. Rudolf IV (1 November 1339 – 27 July 1365), also called Rudolf the Founder ( German: der Stifter ), was a scion of the House of Habsburg who ruled as duke of Austria (self-proclaimed archduke ), Styria and Carinthia from 1358, as well as count of Tyrol from 1363 and as the first duke ...
Rudolf IV, ‘the Founder’. Duke of Austria and Styria, Carinthia and Carniola (reigned 1358–1365); from 1365 also Count of Tyrol. Born in Vienna on 1 November 1339. Died in Milan on 27 July 1365. Duke Rudolf IV was the most influential Habsburg of the fourteenth century. Despite his short life of only twenty-six years he put an enduring ...
In 1349 Duke Albrecht II summoned the lords of his dukedoms to Vienna to take an oath of allegiance to his ten-year-old son Rudolf. Only four years later Rudolf was given official duties and spent a number of years administering the Habsburgs’ western possessions before finally coming to Vienna in 1358 to enter into his father’s inheritance.
Other articles where Rudolf IV is discussed: archduke: …(Pfalz-Erzherzog) was first assumed by Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, on the strength of a forged privilege, in the hope of gaining for the dukes of Austria an equal status with the electors of the Holy Roman Empire. The emperor Charles IV refused to recognize the title, and it was…
Further Austria and Tyrol annexed to Inner Austria: Ruler Born Reign Ruling part Consort(s) Child(ren) Death Notes Regency of Frederick IV, Duke of Austria (1424–1435) Sons of Ernest I, ruled jointly. Occasionally, Albert revolted against Frederick, occupying until his death the lands known today as Upper Austria and Lower Austria.
NameBornReignRuling Partc. 940 Son of Berthold of Nordgau or ...21 July 976 – 10 July 994c. 965 (?) First son of Leopold I and ...10 July 994 – 23 June 1018c. 985 Third son of Leopold I and ...23 June 1018 – 26 May 10551027 Son of Adalbert I and Frozza ...26 May 1055 – 10 June 1075Rudolf IV, also called Rudolf the Founder, was a scion of the House of Habsburg who ruled as duke of Austria, Styria and Carinthia from 1358, as well as count of Tyrol from 1363 and as the first duke of Carniola from 1364 until his death. After the Habsburgs received nothing from the decree of the Golden Bull in 1356, he gave order to draw up the "Privilegium Maius", a fake document to empower ...
Rudolf IV and the ambitions of the dynasty. Rudolf’s birth was celebrated almost as a miracle. His parents, Duke Albrecht II and Joan of Ferrette, were relieved of a huge worry: after fifteen years of childless marriage a healthy baby boy had finally been born. Rumours began to circulate to the effect that Albrecht, whose mobility was ...
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