Leopold II, Duke of Austria

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Leopold II
Duke of Austria
Leopold II and his brother Frederick II
Born1328 (1328)
Died10 August 1344(1344-08-10) (aged 15–16)
HouseHouse of Habsburg
FatherOtto, Duke of Austria
MotherElizabeth of Bavaria

Leopold II, Duke of Austria (1328[1] – 10 August 1344), a member of the House of Habsburg, was a titular Duke of Austria and Styria from 1339 until his death.

Life

Leopold was the younger son of Duke Otto the Merry and his first wife Elizabeth of Bavaria, a daughter of Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria by his marriage to Jutta of Schweidnitz.[1] His elder brother was Frederick (1327–1344).[2]

Otto the Merry had ruled the Habsburg lands jointly with his elder brother Albert II. When Otto died at Neuberg Abbey on 17 February 1339, Leopold and Frederick became titular Dukes of Austria, though both were minors and their uncle Albert II continued as the effective ruler of the Habsburg domains.[2][1]

Death

On 10 August 1344, at the age of sixteen, Leopold died suddenly. Four months later, on 11 December 1344, his brother Frederick also died equally suddenly. In both cases, there were suspicions of poisoning.[1] The beneficiary of their deaths was their uncle Albert II, who thereafter ruled Austria alone until his own death in 1358.[1][2]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Leopold II, Duke of Austria
8. Rudolf I of Germany
4. Albert I of Germany
9. Gertrude of Hohenberg
2. Otto, Duke of Austria
10. Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia
5. Elisabeth of Carinthia, Queen of the Romans
11. Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Germany
1. Leopold II, Duke of Austria
12. Henry XIII, Duke of Bavaria
6. Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria
13. Elizabeth of Hungary, Duchess of Bavaria
3. Elizabeth of Bavaria, Duchess of Austria
14. Bolko I the Strict
7. Jutta of Schweidnitz
15. Beatrice of Brandenburg

Male-line family tree

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e Constantin von Wurzbach, 'Habsburg, Leopold II (Herzog von Oesterreich)' in Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich, vol. 6 (Vienna: L. C. Zamarski, 1860), p. 411
  2. ^ a b c Previté-Orton, C. W. (1952). The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History. Vol. 2: The Twelfth Century to the Renaissance. Cambridge University Press. pp. 796–797.

Further reading

  • Kurz, Franz (1819). Österreich unter Herzog Albrecht dem Lahmen (in German). Linz: Haslinger.
  • Lhotsky, Alphons (1967). Geschichte Österreichs seit der Mitte des 13. Jahrhunderts (1281–1358) (in German). Vienna: Böhlau.
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