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Albert IV, Duke of Austria

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Albert IV
Albert IV of Austria
Duke of Austria
Reign1395 - 1404
PredecessorAlbert the Pigtail
SuccessorAlbert V
Born(1377-09-19)19 September 1377
Vienna
Died14 September 1404(1404-09-14) (aged 26)
Klosterneuburg
Noble familyHouse of Habsburg
Spouse(s)Johanna Sophia of Bavaria
FatherAlbert III of Austria
MotherBeatrix of Nuremberg

Albert IV of Austria (19 September 1377 – 14 September 1404) was a Duke of Austria.

He was born in Vienna, the son of Albert III of Austria and Beatrix of Nuremberg. He was the Duke of Austria from 1395 until 1404, which then included roughly today's Lower Austria and most of Upper Austria, as the other Habsburg dominions were at that time ruled by his relatives of the Leopoldinian Line of the family. Albert's rule was characterized by quarrels with that part of his family and with members of the Luxemburg dynasty, Wenceslaus and Sigismund.

Albert died at Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria, in 1404. He is buried in the Ducal Crypt in the Stephansdom in Vienna. He was succeeded by his son Albert. Through his maternal grandmother, Elisabeth of Meissen, Albert IV descended from Babenberg dukes of Austria.

Family and children

He was married in Vienna 24 April 1390 to Johanna Sophia of Bavaria, daughter of Albrecht I, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing and Margarete of Brieg. Their children were:

  1. Margarete (26 June 1395, Vienna–24 December 1447), married in Landshut 25 November 1412 to Duke Henry XVI of Bavaria.
  2. Albert V (16 August 1397–27 October 1439, Neszmély, Hungary).

Ancestors

Family of Albert IV, Duke of Austria
Albert IV, Duke of Austria
Born: 19 September 1377 Died: 14 September 1404
Regnal titles
Preceded by Duke of Austria
1395–1404
Succeeded by