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Biography. Frederick was the youngest son of Duke Leopold III (1351–1386) and his wife Viridis (d. 1414), [1] a daughter of Bernabò Visconti, Lord of Milan. According to the 1379 Treaty of Neuberg, his father ruled over the Habsburg Inner Austrian territories of Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, as well as over Tyrol and the dynasty's original ...
Regency of Frederick V, Duke of Austria (1440-1452) Succeeded as a minor, under guardianship of his Ernestine cousin. His death without descendants ended the Albertinian line, and the domains he inherited in Bohemia and Hungary, which were only recovered during the reign of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor .
NamePortraitBornReignc. 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 1075Mother. Viridis Visconti. Close. Frederick IV, also known as Frederick of the Empty Pockets, a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of Austria from 1402 until his death. As a scion of the Habsburg Leopoldian line, he ruled over Further Austria and the County of Tyrol from 1406 onwards.
As part of the separation of the Habsburg family lines, Frederick was promised rulership over Tyrol and the Forelands; at first sharing power with his brother Leopold IV, but from 1406 becoming sole ruler, whereupon he found himself confronted with many sources of conflict.
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In 1304, Frederick IV married Elisabeth of Austria (1285–1352), daughter of Albert I of Austria the Emperor. They had the following children: Rudolph (1320–1346), his successor in Lorraine; Margaret, married Jean de Chalon, lord of Auberive (died 1350), then Conrad, count of Friburg, and lastly Ulrich (died 1377), lord of Rappoltstein
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Stephan Gruber. Next chapter. At the beginning of the fifteenth century the Habsburg family was dominated by quarrels and disputes about the division of power. Duke Frederick IV, who ruled over Tyrol and the ancestral territories on the upper Rhine, increasingly found himself facing difficulties.
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