Leopold I (Habsburg)

Leopold I of Austria

Leopold I (born August 4, 1290 in Vienna , Duchy of Austria , † February 28, 1326 in Strasbourg ) was Duke of Austria and Styria .

Life

Leopold I was born as the third son of King Albrecht I († 1308) and Elisabeth of Carinthia . After the death of his parents, he became the head of the Habsburg family . He was responsible for the administration of the Austrian foothills and he supported his brother Friedrich the fair in the election of the German king against Ludwig of Bavaria . In the fight against the Swiss Confederation, Leopold lost near Morgarten on November 15, 1315. After the defeat at Mühldorf in 1322, known as the Battle of Ampfing , Leopold campaigned intensively for the release of his captured brother and even sent him the imperial regalia .

progeny

From his marriage to Catherine of Savoy (* between 1297 and ~ 1305, † September 30, 1336), the daughter of Count Amadeus V of Savoy from the House of Savoy , in 1315, he had two daughters:

• Katharina (* February 28, 1320; † September 28 / October 1349 at the plague )
  1. ∞ Enguerrand VI. de Coucy ; her son was Enguerrand VII. de Coucy ( House Gent )
  2. ∞ Count Konrad von Hardegg from the Querfurt family
• Agnes (around 1322; † 1392)

  ∞ Duke Bolko (Boleslaus) II of Schweidnitz (Silesia), from the house of the Piasts

funeral

Epitaph with the coat of arms of the Habsburgs in the collegiate church of St. Paul in Lavanttal

He was buried in the church of the Königsfelden monastery . Through the solemn translation of the imperial-royal-also-ducal-Austrian highest corpses , he and the others first came to the St. Blasien Cathedral and after the abolition of the St. Blasien monastery in the collegiate church crypt of the St. Paul monastery in Lavanttal in Carinthia.

reception

By the imperial resolution of Franz Joseph I of February 28, 1863 Leopold I was added to the list of the "most famous warlords and generals of Austria worthy of perpetual emulation" , in whose honor and memory there was also a life-size statue in the general hall of that time The newly established Imperial and Royal Court Weapons Museum (today: Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien ) was built. The statue was created in 1870 from Carrara marble by the sculptor Josef Gasser and was dedicated by Emperor Franz Joseph himself.

literature

• Günther Hödl : Duke Leopold I of Austria (1290-1326) . phil. Dissertation University of Vienna 1964
• Alfons Huber:  Leopold I, Duke of Austria and Styria . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 391 f.
• Walter Koch:  Leopold I. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , pp. 285-287 ( digitized version ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Leopold I the Glorious, Duke of Austria .  No. 165. In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 6th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1860, pp. 409–411 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Leopold I, Duke of Austria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Leopold I in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Form of name Katharina z. B. stated in Brigitte Hamann (Ed.): Die Habsburger . Ueberreuter, Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-8000-3247-3 , p. 233; Wrong form of name Elisabeth in Wurzbach: Habsburg, Elisabeth von Savoyen .  No. 58. In: Biographical Lexicon. 6th part. Vienna 1860, p. 164 ( digitized version ).
2. ↑ Wedding of her mother, birth of her younger sister Anna of Savoy , later empress in Byzantium
3. ↑ Wurzbach: Habsburg, Katharina von Oesterreich (d. October 28, 1349) .  No. 154. In: Biographisches Lexikon. 6th part. Vienna 1860, p. 400 ( digitized version ).
4. ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. The museum and its representative rooms . Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1981, ISBN 3-7023-0113-5 , p. 30

predecessor	Office	successor
Albrecht I.	Count of Habsburg 1308–1326	Friedrich I.
Albrecht I.	Duke of Austria and Styria 1308-1326 (with Friedrich I. )	Friedrich I.