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Albert II of Habsburg (
August 10,
1397 –
October 27,
1439) was
King of the Romans (ruler of Germany within the
Holy Roman Empire) from 1438 until his death. He was also King of
Bohemia and
Hungary and, as Albert V, Duke of
Austria.
Biography
Albert was born in
Vienna as the son of
Albert IV, Duke of Austria, and
Johanna Sophia of Bavaria.
Albert succeeded to the duchy of Austria on his father's death in 1404. After receiving a good education, he undertook the government of Austria in 1411, and succeeded, with the aid of his advisers, in ridding the duchy of the evils which had arisen during his minority. He assisted the German emperor
Sigismund, who was also king of Hungary and Bohemia, in his campaigns against the
Hussites, and in 1422 married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Sigismund, who designated him as his successor. (Note that she wasn't the daughter of Sigismund's first wife Mary of Hungary, and thus not descended from Angevin kings of Hungary, but in many ways, she descended from the old
Arpád kings of Hungary.)
Elisabeth was daughter of
Emperor Sigismund and his second wife, the Slovenian noblewoman
Barbara of Celje. Her paternal grandparents were
Emperor Charles IV and Elisabeth of
Pomerania. Her maternal grandfather was Count Herman II of Celje, whose parents were the Slovenian ruler Count Herman I of Celje and Catherine of Bosnia (who apparently descended also from
Nemanjic kings of Serbia and from Catherine of Hungary, a daughter of
Stephen V of Hungary). In right of the paternal grandparents, she was, through Emperor Charles, an heiress of Bohemia, and through Elisabeth of Pomerania, an heiress of Poland, of its Kujavian Piast branch of kings. Thus, Albert's marriage brought him claims to several Slavic kingdoms and principalities.
She was also a descendant of
Árpáds of Hungary, through her great-grandmother Elisabeth of Bohemia, who herself was granddaughter of Anna Rostislavna of Halicia, whose mother Constance was a daughter of King
Bela IV of Hungary. Admittedly, this wasn't a very close Hungarian connection, but all the other descendants of Árpáds were approximately as distant at that time.
Additionally, she descended from
Ottokar I of Bohemia's second wife Constance of Hungary, daughter of
Bela III of Hungary.
Albert himself descended from
Bela IV of Hungary through his daughter Ilona whose descendant was a princess of Brieg who became Albert's ancestress the countess of Hainaut and Holland, and from a younger sister of Queen
Elisabeth of Bohemia, thus descending from both Constances of Hungary, and also from King
Geza II of Hungary through his daughter Elisabeth who married Bedrich of Czech, their daughter being an ancestress of Albert's maternal Bavarian line.
When Sigismund died in 1437, Albert was crowned king of Hungary on
January 1,
1438, and, although crowned king of Bohemia six months later, he was unable to obtain possession of the country. He was engaged in warfare with the Bohemians and their Polish allies, when on
March 18,
1438, he was chosen as German king at
Frankfurt, an honour which he doesn't appear to have sought. He thus was "
King of the Romans", but he wasn't crowned as
Holy Roman Emperor.
Afterwards engaged in defending Hungary against the attacks of the
Turks, he died on
October 27,
1439, at Neszmély, and was buried at
Székesfehérvár. Albert was an energetic and warlike prince, whose short reign gave great promise of usefulness for Germany.
Family
Children
His children with
Elisabeth II of Bohemia were:
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