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unusual facts about Leopold I, Margrave of Austria



Duke of Joyeuse

::1690-1693 : Louis XIV confiscated the duchy after Charles François entered into the service of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor. It was given to Charles' brother Jean François Paul.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Dossow

Later that year, Dossow was the Generaladjutant to Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau during the capture of Rügen and siege of Stralsund.

Further Austria

In 1665 the Habsburg lands were finally re-unified under the rule of Emperor Leopold I.

Heinrich of Saxe-Weissenfels, Count of Barby

The building could only be finished in 1715; in the meanwhile, Heinrich and his wife spend long periods of time in Dessau with his father-in-law John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and his brother-in-law Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau.

Hendrik Conscience

But it was with the patronage of Leopold I that Conscience published his second book, Fantasy, in the same year 1837.

Ilok Castle

After the victory against the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the Emperor Leopold I granted the castle, significant properties and the title of the Duke of Syrmia to Livio Odescalchi, nephew of Pope Innocent XI and a member of the powerful Italian aristocratic Odescalchi family, which would own the castle for the next two centuries.

Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress

This is one of the several court portraits made by Velázquez, who, in different occasions portrayed Infanta Margaret Theresa, who married at fifteen her uncle, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.

Jakub Kresa

The Emperor Leopold I appointed Kresa as confessor of his second son, the Archduke Charles.

Jan Thomas van Ieperen

Jan Thomas van Ieperen (5 February 1617 – 6 September 1673) was a Flemish Baroque painter and engraver active in Antwerp and at the Habsburg court in Vienna where he painted a portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I in theatrical costume.

Leopold I, Margrave of Austria

Celebrations under the same title were held twenty years later at the anniversary of the famous 996 Ostarrîchi document first mentioning the Old German name of Austria.

Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau

Leopold accompanied the king to the front, commanded an army of 40,000 men, and defeated the much smaller force of Charles XII of Sweden in a hard-fought battle on the island of Rügen on 16 November in alliance with the Danish army of Stralsund.

Mavrocordatos family

Alexander Mavrocordatos - son of the founder, styled "Serene Highness" (1699) by Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor

Maximilian Balzan

Appointed ambassador to the German Emperor, Leopold I, Balzan accomplished his duties so well that he was appointed a knight of the Holy Roman Empire.

Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria

He returned to court for long enough to marry Maria Antonia, daughter of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and Margaret Theresa of Spain, on July 15, 1685 in Vienna, Austria.

Pucić noble family

The Emperor Leopold I, granted the title of Count and the predicate Di Zagorie on 20 September 1688 to Mateo Pucić, son of Lucijan Pucić and Marija Bunić.

Săliştea

In 1701, the Emperor Leopold I decreed Transylvania's Orthodox Church to be one with the Roman Catholic Church.


see also

Richarda

Richarda or Richardis of Sualafeldgau (945/50-994), the first Austrian royal consort, married to Leopold I, Margrave of Austria