Austria
The Duchy of Austria was a Habsburg principality on the Danube, within the Holy Roman Empire. In 1337 Albert II ruled Austria and Styria; he had acquired Carinthia and Carniola in 1335.
His son Rudolf IV claimed the archducal title through the forged Privilegium Maius in 1359 and acquired Tyrol in 1363. The Treaty of Neuberg divided the Habsburg lands in 1379. Albert V was elected King of the Romans in 1438, and Frederick III secured recognition of Austria as an archduchy in 1453. In 1806 Francis II dissolved the Holy Roman Empire, and Austria continued as an empire.
Characters
- Anne of Bohemia, Duchess of Austria
- Anna of Austria
- Joanna of Pfirt
- Agnes of Nuremberg
- Albert I of Germany
- Albert II of Austria
- Catherine of Savoy
- Isabella of Aragon
- Elizabeth of Bavaria
- Frederick the Fair
- Frederick II of Habsburg
- Gertrude of Hohenberg
- Leopold I, Duke of Austria
- Leopold II of Habsburg
- Otto, Duke of Austria
- Rudolf I of Germany