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With the aid of Emperor Sigismund, who was his wife's uncle, John III immediately started a war against his niece Jacqueline and her husband Duke John IV of Brabant. John the Pitiless supported the city of Dordrecht and Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy. A siege of Dordrecht in 1419 was unsuccessful, so John IV of Brabant agreed to start a joint ...
Louis II, Duke of Bavaria. Louis the Strict ( German: Ludwig der Strenge) (13 April 1229 – 2 February 1294) was Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1253. He is known as Louis II or Louis VI following an alternative numbering. Born in Heidelberg, he was a son of Otto II Wittelsbach, Duke of Bavaria and Agnes of the ...
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.
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.
Frederick III, Duke of Austria. Frederick III by Anton Boys. Father. Albert II of Austria. Mother. Joanna of Pfirt. Duke Frederick III of Austria (31 March 1347 – 10 December 1362) was the second son of Duke Albert II of Austria and a younger brother of Duke Rudolf IV. He was born and died in Vienna, where he is buried in the Ducal Crypt.
Joanna Sophia of Bavaria (c. 1373 – 15 November 1410) was the youngest daughter of Albert I, Duke of Bavaria and his first wife Margaret of Brieg. She was a member of the House of Wittelsbach . On 13 June 1395, Joanna Sophia married Albert IV, Duke of Austria in Vienna. The marriage between the two ended a feud between Joanna Sophia's father ...
Issue. Albert IV, Duke of Austria. House. House of Habsburg. Father. Albert II of Austria. Mother. Joanna of Pfirt. Albert III of Austria (9 September 1349 – 29 August 1395), known as Albert with the Braid (Pigtail) ( German: Albrecht mit dem Zopf ), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of Austria from 1365 until his death.
