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Male-line family tree. See also. Notes. References. External links. Albert II of Germany. Albert the Magnanimous KG, elected King of the Romans as Albert II (10 August 1397 – 27 October 1439), was emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and a member of the House of Habsburg. By inheritance he became Albert V, Duke of Austria.
king (1438-1439), Germany. House / Dynasty: House of Habsburg. Albert II (born Aug. 16, 1397—died Oct. 27, 1439, Neszmély, Hung.) was a German king from 1438, king of Hungary, king of Bohemia, and duke of Luxembourg. As a member of the Habsburg dynasty, he was archduke of Austria from infancy (1404). On the death of his father-in-law, the ...
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The Habsburgs and the imperial office. Albert II; Frederick III; Developments in the individual states to about 1500. The princes and the Landstände; The growth of central governments; German society, economy, and culture in the 14th and 15th centuries. Transformation of rural life; The nobility; Urban life; The decline of the church; Trade ...
People > History > German History: Biographies > Albert II, Holy Roman Emperor. Albert II, 1397–1439, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Hungary and Bohemia (1438–39), duke of Austria (1404–38). He was the son-in-law of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, whom he aided against the Hussites of Bohemia.
Albert II of Germany was King of Germany for a short time in the early 15th Century. He was born on Aug. 19, 1397, in Vienna. His father was Albert IV, Duke of Austria, and his mother was Joanna Sophia of Bavaria. Albert senior died in 1404, and young Albert became Duke of Austria despite being only 7. He had a series of uncles as regents and ...
Contents. Germany from 1250 to 1493. 1250 to 1378. The extinction of the Hohenstaufen dynasty. The death of Frederick II in 1250 and of his son Conrad IV in 1254 heralded the irreversible decline of Hohenstaufen power in Germany and in the conjoint kingdoms of Naples and Sicily.
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Albert II - Portrait by an anonymous painter of the 16th century (source: Wikimedia Commons) The regesta of the only shortly ruling Roman-German, Hungarian and Bohemian king Albert II (1438-1439) are available in the edition by Günther Hödl from the year 1975.
