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Rudolf II, Duke of Austria. Rudolf I in the marriage of his son Rudolf II to Agnes of Bohemia. Rudolf II ( c. 1270 – 10 May 1290), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of Austria and Styria from 1282 to 1283, jointly with his elder brother Albert I, who succeeded him.
In 1359 Rudolf’s forged charter, the Privilegium Majus, by which he claimed immense privileges for Austria and its dynasty, as well as the title of archduke, caused a breach between him and the emperor Charles IV.
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Rudolf IV: Duke of Austria and Styria. Rudolf IV was Duke of Austria and Styria for seven years in the mid-14th Century. He was born on Nov. 1, 1339, in Vienna, the son of Albert II and Joanna of Pfirt. He was married at 18 to Catherine of Bohemia, whose was father was the Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV.
In fact Rudolf was, like Ottokar, one of the Empire’s wealthiest and most powerful rulers. Furthermore, the college of electors had voted in Rudolf’s favour precisely in order to prevent Ottokar from becoming even more powerful. Ottokar had assumed sovereignty in Austria and Styria following the death of the last Babenberg duke, Frederick II.
Even before the frontier question could be resolved by means of diplomacy, troops led by Major Rudolf Majster tried to create facts on the ground by occupying Lower Styria in November 1918. Because of the catastrophic situation regarding the supply of food and the lack of military forces, Styria restricted itself to a political protest to the ...
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 of Carniola from 1364 until his death.
Apr 30, 2024 · In 1282 Rudolf received permission from the German princes to grant to his sons the territories recovered from Otakar, and in December of that year he granted Austria and Styria to his sons Albert and Rudolf, thus constituting the territorial nucleus of the future Habsburg power.
