Albert I of Germany

Albert I of Habsburg (1255–1308), eldest son of Rudolf I, received Austria and Styria from his father in 1282, gaining sole government of them in 1283.

Passed over by the electors in 1291, he defeated King Adolf of Nassau at the Battle of Göllheim in 1298, where Adolf was killed, and was elected King of the Romans and crowned at Aachen. Pope Boniface VIII recognized him only in 1303.

In 1306 he placed his son Rudolf on the Bohemian throne, but defeat at Lucka in 1307 checked him. In 1308 his nephew John Parricida murdered him.