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  2. 3 days ago · Duke of Bavaria: Louis IV 1282–1347 King of Germany r. 1314–1347 Holy Roman Emperor r. 1328–1347: Beatrice of Silesia 1290–1322: Joanna of Pfirt 1300–1351: Albert II 1298–1358 Duke of Austria: Otto IV 1301–1339 Duke of Austria: Anne of Bohemia 1323–1338: Anna of Świdnica 1339–1362: Charles IV 1316–1378 King of Germany r ...

  3. 3 days ago · Standing in Rutowsky’s way was the Prussian corps of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau, ‘The Old Dessauer’. At 69 years of age, The Old Dessauer had been a Prussian Feldmarschall since the War of Spanish Succession and was a contemporary of those other legendary Field Marshals, the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugène of Savoy.

  4. 3 days ago · Germany - Habsburgs, Imperial Office, Unification: In the absence of a male heir, Sigismund had named his son-in-law Albert of Habsburg, duke of Austria, as his successor. Albert was able and vigorous, and the union of the territories of the two dynasties enabled him to exert considerable leverage in German politics.

  5. 4 days ago · The War of the Austrian Succession, like most European wars of the eighteenth century, was fought as a so-called cabinet war in which disciplined regular armies were equipped and supplied by the state to conduct warfare on behalf of the sovereign's interests.

  6. 3 days ago · Since many foreign rulers were also Imperial princes, divisions within the empire drew in external powers like Christian IV of Denmark, who joined the war in 1625 as Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. Background: 1556 to 1618 Map of the Thirty Years' War

  7. 2 days ago · Leopold VI played some role in imperial politics, bringing about the Treaty of San Germano between the Holy Roman emperor Frederick II and Pope Gregory IX (1230). He met his death in San Germano (now Cassino, Italy), and his body was transported to Lilienfeld for burial.

  8. 2 days ago · 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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