Search results
Leopold I (c. 1290 – 28 February 1326), [1] called The Glorious, was Duke of Austria and Styria – as co-ruler with his elder brother Frederick the Fair – from 1308 until his death. A member of the House of Habsburg, he was the third son of Albert I of Germany and Elisabeth of Gorizia-Tyrol, a scion of the Meinhardiner dynasty.
Mother. Theodora Komnene. Leopold V (1157 – 31 December 1194), known as the Virtuous ( German: der Tugendhafte) was a member of the House of Babenberg who reigned as Duke of Austria from 1177 and Duke of Styria within the Holy Roman Empire from 1192 until his death. The Georgenberg Pact resulted in Leopold being enfeoffed with Styria by Roman ...
- 1177–1194
- Theodora Komnene
Battle of Morgarten. …in 1314, the Habsburg duke Leopold I of Austria, who claimed jurisdiction in the area, raised an army of knights for an invasion of Schwyz from Zug by way of the Morgarten Pass alongside Lake Egeri (Ägerisee). The men of Schwyz, however, and some confederates from Uri caught the Austrians…. Other articles where ...
People also ask
Who was Leopold V?
Who was Prince Leopold of Bavaria?
Who was King Leopold II?
Who was Leopold the Great?
Leopold I (Leopold Ignaz Joseph Balthasar Franz Felician; Hungarian: I. Lipót; 9 June 1640 – 5 May 1705) was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria Anna of Spain, Leopold became heir apparent in 1654 after the death of his elder brother ...
- 18 July 1658 – 5 May 1705
- Maria Anna of Spain
Leopold I ‘the Glorious’. Duke of Austria and Styria; ruled from 1308 to 1326 jointly with his brother Frederick (I). The sword of Habsburg! The son of King Albrecht I, Leopold pursued his father’s murderers remorselessly. Afterwards he promoted the election of his elder brother Frederick (‘the Fair’) as Roman-German anti-king.
Leopold was the third son of the many offspring of Duke Albrecht I and Elizabeth of Gorizia-Tyrol. The choice of the name Leopold speaks volumes, for this was the classic name given to first-born sons in the Babenberg dynasty. The fact that Albrecht, the first Austrian duke of the House of Habsburg, had resorted to this name for his son represented an attempt to establish a
Leopold I was Duke of Austria and Styria for nearly three decades in the early 14th Century, sharing power with two of his brothers. He was born in 1290. His father was the eventual Holy Roman Emperor Albert I , and his mother was Elizabeth of Carinthia.
