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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.
As a member of the Habsburg dynasty, he was archduke of Austria from infancy (1404). On the death of his father-in-law, the Holy Roman emperor Sigismund, Albert was crowned king of Hungary (Jan. 1, 1438), elected king of Germany (March 18), and, despite opposition, actually crowned king of Bohemia (June 29). Calling a diet at Nürnberg (1438 ...
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Apr 8, 2024 · Sigismund (born Feb. 15, 1368, probably Nürnberg—died Dec. 9, 1437, Znojmo, Bohemia) was the Holy Roman emperor from 1433, king of Hungary from 1387, German king from 1411, king of Bohemia from 1419, and Lombard king from 1431. The last emperor of the House of Luxembourg, he participated in settling the Western Schism and the Hussite wars in ...
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In return Sigismund designated him as his successor and granted him the title of a Margrave of Moravia in 1423. The Austrian lands were devastated several times and Albert also participated in the 1431 Battle of Domažlice where the Imperial troops suffered an embarrassing defeat.
- 14 September 1404 – 27 October 1439
- Joanna Sophia of Bavaria
Sigismund was in Znojomo, Moravia, when he died, on Dec. 9, 1437. He had no sons, so the House of Luxembourg died with him. His daughter had married Albert, Duke of Austria, and Sigismund had designated Albert as his successor. Sigismund was Holy Roman Emperor and King of Germany for a time in the early 15th Century.
How did Albert, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, manage to retain their assets/land upon his conversion to Protestantism and become Duke of Prussia? Why would his uncle the Polish king Sigismund I, a Catholic monarch, consent to the assets of a Catholic order being seized?
In December, Frederick, grand master of the Teutonic Order, died, and Albert, joining the order, was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to Sigismund I., king of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over east Prussia, which had been held by the order under Polish suzerainty since 1466.
