Brno inheritance contract
The Brno inheritance contract was signed in 1364 between Emperor Charles IV and his son-in-law, Duke Rudolf IV of Austria , who had married his daughter Katharina in 1357 .
Provisions of the Brno Treaty
The Brno Treaty regulated the mutual succession of the Luxembourg and Habsburgs in the event of the extinction of one of the two dynasties. If the Luxembourgers died out before the Habsburgs, they should inherit their territories. If, on the other hand, the Habsburg dynasty died out, they were followed by the Luxembourgers, provided that the branch of the Anjou family that ruled the Hungarian kingdom at that time was also extinct.
The Brno Succession Treaty meant a violation of the right to elect a king, which Charles IV had certified in the Golden Bull for the Bohemian estates .
Background for the contract
Since an extinction of the two dynasties was not foreseeable at this point in time, the actual reasons for the contract have not been clarified.
Consequences of the contract
- In connection with this contract, the marriage between the Duchess Margaret of Austria (1346-1366) , a sister of Rudolf, and the Margrave Johann Heinrich von Moravia , Karl's younger brother, agreed, which was subsequently also concluded.
- This inheritance contract was the first in a series of succession contracts that were concluded between the Habsburgs and the Luxemburgers in the following decades.
An original is in the House, Court and State Archives in Vienna under the signature AUR 1364 II 10 . Of the original seven seals, those of Margrave Johann von Moravia and Duke Albrecht of Austria have fallen off, but remnants of the silk cords used to attach the seals have been preserved.
Editions
- Ernst von Schwind , Alfons Dopsch (ed.): Selected documents on the constitutional history of the German-Austrian hereditary lands in the Middle Ages. Innsbruck 1895, pp. 226-229 No. 114 ( digitized version ).
- Leo Santifaller (Hrsg.): 1100 years of Austrian and European history in documents of the house, court and state archives. Vienna 1949, p. 34 f., Plate 22 (illustration and print).
literature
- Christiane Thomas: Catalog entry for the certificate. In: Ostarrîchi - Austria 996-1996. People, myths, milestones. Catalog of the Austrian national exhibition in Neuhofen an der Ybbs and St. Pölten. Edited by Ernst Bruckmüller and Peter Urbanitsch. Catalog of the Lower Austrian State Museum. NF 388. - Horn: Berger 1996. XXIV, 736. 4 °. Object no .: 17.10a, p. 659.
- Alois Niederstätter: Austrian History 1278-1411. The rule of Austria. Prince and country in the late Middle Ages. Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2001, p. 157.
Web links
- Document: General document series AUR 1364 II 10 (picture of the original) in the European document archive Monasterium.net .