Albert IV of Austria

Albert IV
Posthumous portrait by Anton Boys
Duke of Austria
Reign	1395–1404
Predecessor	Albert III the Pigtail
Successor	Albert V
Born	19 September 1377 Vienna
Died	14 September 1404 (aged 26) Klosterneuburg
Spouse	Joanna Sophia of Bavaria
Issue	Margarete Albert II of Germany
House	House of Habsburg
Father	Albert III of Austria
Mother	Beatrix of Nuremberg

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

Biography

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 Joanna 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).

Male-line family tree

• v
  t
  e
  House of Habsburg
• Original line
• Albert
  Count of Habsburg
  c. 1188–1239
• Rudolf I
  of Germany
  c. 1218–1291
• Albert I
  of Germany
  1255–1308 — Hartmann
  1263–1281 — Rudolf II
  Duke of Austria
  1270–1290
• Rudolf I
  of Bohemia
  1281–1307 — Frederick
  the Fair
  c. 1289–1330 — Leopold I
  Duke of Austria
  1290–1326 — Albert II
  Duke of Austria
  1298–1358 — Henry
  the Friendly
  1299–1327 — Otto
  Duke of Austria
  1301–1339 — John
  Parricida
  c. 1290–1312/1313
• Albertinian line — Leopoldian line
• Rudolf IV
  Duke of Austria
  1339–1365 — Frederick III
  1347–1362 — Albert III
  Duke of Austria
  1349–1395 — Leopold III
  Duke of Austria
  1351–1386 — Frederick II
  Duke of Austria
  1327–1344 — Leopold II
  Duke of Austria
  1328–1344
• Albert IV
  Duke of Austria
  1377–1404 — William
  Duke of Austria
  c. 1370–1406 — Leopold IV
  Duke of Austria
  1371–1411 — Ernest
  Duke of Austria
  1377–1424 — Frederick IV
  Duke of Austria
  1382–1439
• Albert II
  of Germany
  1397–1439 — Frederick III
  HRE
  1415–1493 — Albert VI
  Archduke of Austria
  1418–1463 — Sigismund
  Archduke of Austria
  1427–1496
• Ladislaus
  the Posthumous
  1440–1457 — Maximilian I
  HRE
  1459–1519
• Philip I
  of Castile
  1478–1506
• Spanish / Iberian line — Austrian / HRE line
• Charles V
  HRE
  1500–1558 — Ferdinand I
  HRE
  1503–1564
• Philip II
  of Spain
  1527–1598 — Maximilian II
  HRE
  1527–1576 — Ferdinand II
  Archduke of Austria
  1529–1595 — Charles II
  Archduke of Austria
  1540–1590
• Carlos
  Prince of Asturias
  1545–1568 — Philip III
  of Spain
  1578–1621 — Rudolf II
  HRE
  1552–1612 — Ernest
  of Austria
  1553–1595 — Matthias
  HRE
  1557–1619 — Maximilian III
  Archduke of Austria
  1558–1618 — Albert VII
  Archduke of Austria
  1559–1621 — Wenceslaus
  Archduke of Austria
  1561–1578 — Andrew
  Margrave of Burgau
  1558–1600 — Charles
  Margrave of Burgau
  1560–1618 — Ferdinand II
  HRE
  1578–1637 — Maximilian Ernest
  of Austria
  1583–1616 — Leopold V
  Archduke of Austria
  1586–1632 — Charles
  of Austria
  1590–1624
• Philip IV
  of Spain
  1605–1665 — Charles
  of Austria
  1607–1632 — Ferdinand
  of Austria
  1609–1641 — John-Charles
  of Austria
  1605–1619 — Ferdinand III
  HRE
  1608–1657 — Leopold Wilhelm
  of Austria
  1614–1662 — Ferdinand Charles
  Archduke of Austria
  1628–1662 — Sigismund Francis
  Archduke of Austria
  1630–1665
• Balthasar Charles
  Prince of Asturias
  1629–1646 — Charles II
  of Spain
  1661–1700 — Ferdinand IV
  King of the Romans
  1633–1654 — Leopold I
  HRE
  1640–1705 — Charles Joseph
  of Austria
  1649–1664
• Joseph I
  HRE
  1678–1711 — Charles VI
  HRE
  1685–1740
• Lorraine
• Maria Theresa
  HRE
  1740–1780 — Francis I
  HRE
  1745–1765
• Habsburg-Lorraine
• Joseph II
  HRE
  1765–1790 — Leopold II
  HRE
  1790–1792
• Francis II
  HRE
  1792–1806
• Notes:

Bibliography

• Previte-Orton, C.W. (1952). The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History: The Twelfth Century to the Renaissance. Vol. 2. Cambridge University Press.