Albert IV, Duke of Austria

For other people named Albert of Austria, see Albert of Austria (disambiguation).

Albert IV
Albert IV of Austria
Duke of Austria
Reign	1395 - 1404
Predecessor	Albert the Pigtail
Successor	Albert V
Born	(1377-09-19)19 September 1377 Vienna
Died	14 September 1404(1404-09-14) (aged 26) Klosterneuburg
Noble family	House of Habsburg
Spouse(s)	Johanna Sophia of Bavaria
Father	Albert III of Austria
Mother	Beatrix 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

16. Rudolph I of Germany 8. Albert I of Germany 17. Gertrude of Hohenburg 4. Albert II, Duke of Austria 18. Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia 9. Elisabeth of Gorizia-Tyrol 19. Elisabeth of Bavaria 2. Albert III, Duke of Austria 20. Theobald II of Pfirt 10. Ulrich III of Pfirt 21. Catherine of Klingen 5. Joanna of Pfirt 22. Reginald of Burgundy 11. Joanna of Burgundy 23. Guillemette of Neufchâtel 1. Albert IV, Duke of Austria 24. Frederick IV of Nuremberg 12. John II, Burgrave of Nuremberg 25. Margaret of Gorizia 6. Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg 26. Berthold VII, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen 13. Elisabeth of Henneberg-Schleusingen 27. Adelheid of Hesse 3. Beatrice of Nuremberg 28. Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen 14. Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen 29. Elizabeth of Lobdeburg-Arnshaugk 7. Elisabeth of Meissen 30. Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor 15. Mathilde of Bavaria 31. Beatrice of Silesia