Rudolf II (Austria)

Rudolf II. (* 1270 in Rheinfelden , † May 10, 1290 in Prague ), as Count of Habsburg Rudolf V , was Duke of Austria and Styria , then Duke of Swabia , Alsace and Aargau .

He was a son of King Rudolf I of Habsburg and Gertrud von Hohenberg . On December 17, 1282, at the Diet of Augsburg , he was appointed Duke of Austria and Styria together with his brother Albrecht I. On June 1, 1283, in the Treaty of Rheinfelden , he had to renounce these areas in favor of Albrecht I, in return he was to be enfeoffed by his father with the provinces in what would later become Upper Austria . For the time being, he took over the reign in Upper Austria and in Klettgau , feudal rule as well as the agreed compensation of Albrecht I did not occur until his untimely death at the age of 19. In the spring of 1288 he besieged Weissenburg Castle , here his father came to his aid. He then took part in his father's campaign against Bern in 1288/89 , which sympathized with the Savoyard . After his father had failed his first assault on the city, Rudolf succeeded in provoking the Bernese into a sortie and defeating them on April 27, 1289 in the battle of Schosshalde . A year later he died unexpectedly while visiting his sister Guta in Prague.

In revenge for the withheld inheritance, Rudolf's posthumously born son Johann murdered his uncle Albrecht in 1308, which is why he is called Parricida (' killer of relatives').

Marriage and offspring

Rudolf married Agnes of Bohemia , daughter of King Ottokar II Přemysl, in Prague in 1289 . He had a son with her:

• Johann von Schwaben Posthumus , also Parricida (1290-1313)

literature

• Heinz Dopsch :  Rudolf II. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 177 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Johann Loserth :  Rudolf II. (Duke of Austria and Styria) . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 29, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1889, pp. 542-544.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Habsburg, Rudolph II, Duke of Swabia . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 7th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1861, p. 135 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Entry on Rudolf II. (Austria) in the database of the state's memory of the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )

predecessor	Office	successor
Konradin	Duke of Swabia 1273–1290 (1283 governor of all of Upper Austria)	Johann
Rudolf I.	Duke of Austria and Styria 1282–1283 (together with Albrecht I)	Albrecht I.