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9 unusual facts about Duke of Austria


Jonen

In 1376 Duke Leopold of Austria pledged the rights to the low justice in the Kelleramt (of which Jonen was part) to Gottfried Milliner of Zurich.

Karneid Castle

The Dukes of Austria award it to Friedrich von Greifenstein and Hans Berger, Duke Leopold's chamberlain.

Leopold III

Leopold III, Duke of Austria (1351–1386), co-Archduke of Austria and co-Duke of Styria

Leopold III of Austria

Leopold III, Duke of Austria, (1351–1386), Duke of Styria, Carinthia, Tyrol, and Vorderösterreich of House of Habsburg, died in Battle of Sempach

Leopold IV of Austria

Leopold IV, Duke of Austria (1371-1411), Habsburg Duke of the Leopoldinian Line, ruled from 1386

Monastic grange

One of the oldest wine estates in Central Europe, the Lilienfelderhof (Lilienfelder Hof) in Pfaffstätten, 30 km south of Vienna, Austria, traces its history to an endowment made by the Babenberger Leopold VI, Duke of Austria (“the Glorious”) to the Cistercian monks at Lilienfeld Abbey in 1202, though the property as such (as opposed to the endowment) is traditionally dated to 1209.

Otto of Austria

Otto, Duke of Austria (1301-1339), the youngest son of Albert I of Germany

Runkelstein Castle

Niklaus was counselor and financier of the Count of Tyrol, Leopold III, Duke of Austria, which allowed them to buy the castle a type of residence unfitting in this time for people of their rank.

Tirol Castle

The castle remained the seat of Tyrol's sovereigns until 1420, when the Habsburg archduke Frederick IV moved the administrative seat to Innsbruck north of the Brenner Pass.


Treaty of Zadar

In the 1350s the Hungarian monarch, Louis I, was able to assemble a force of 50,000 men by joining his forces with reinforcements sent by the Duke of Austria, the Counts of Gorizia, the Lord of Padua, Francesco I da Carrara, and the Patriarchate of Aquileia, a state within the Holy Roman Empire.


see also

Ilona of Hungary

Helena of Hungary, Duchess of Austria (c. 1158–1199), daughter of King Géza II of Hungary and wife of Leopold V, Duke of Austria

Ladislaus V of Hungary

Ladislaus the Posthumous (1440-1457), also known as Ladislaus of Bohemia and Hungary, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia; and Duke of Austria