Austrian Interregnum

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The Austrian Interregnum is the period between 1246 and 1256 or 1278 or 1282. This is the period in which the Babenbergs died out in Austria and the Habsburgs came to power.

After the childless Friedrich II died on June 15, 1246 in the Battle of the Leitha , the Babenbergs in the male line died out with him.

Since the Privilegium Minus also provided for female succession, his sister Margarete and niece Gertrud of Austria were now entitled to inherit. When the duchies were awarded to Margarete, she married Ottokar Přemysl , who was more than twenty years her junior , whereupon Austria became a field of conflict between the Přemyslids and the Arpades , in which Ottokar was able to assert himself and in 1256 became Duke of Austria, Styria and Carinthia.

However, the Wittelsbachers and the Habsburgs under Rudolph also claimed the Duchy of Austria and after Rudolph's victory over Ottokar Přemysl in the battle of Dürnkrut and Jedenspeigen on August 26, 1278 and Rudolph's takeover on December 17, 1282, his successor, his son Albrecht I . Confirmed as Duke at the Diet of Augsburg.

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literature

  • Stephan Vajda: Felix Austria. A history of Austria. Ueberreuter, Vienna and Heidelberg 1980, ISBN 3-8000-3168-X .