Albert IV, Duke of Austria

Albert IV
Albert IV of Austria
Duke of Austria
Reign	1395 - 1404
Predecessor	Albert the Pigtail
Successor	Albert V
Spouse(s)	Johanna Sophia of Bavaria
Noble family	House of Habsburg
Father	Albert III of Austria
Mother	Beatrix of Nuremberg
Born	19 September 1377 Vienna
Died	14 September 1404 (aged 26) Klosterneuburg

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

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 Johanna 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).

Ancestors

Ancestors of Albert IV, Duke of Austria

16. Rudolph I of Germany               8. Albert I of Germany                       17. Gertrude of Hohenburg               4. Albert II, Duke of Austria                             18. Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia               9. Elisabeth of Gorizia-Tyrol                       19. Elisabeth of Bavaria               2. Albert III, Duke of Austria                                   20. Theobald II of Pfirt               10. Ulrich III of Pfirt                       21. Catherine of Klingen               5. Joanna of Pfirt                             22. Reginald of Burgundy               11. Joanna of Burgundy                       23. Guillemette of Neufchâtel               1. Albert IV, Duke of Austria                                         24. Frederick IV of Nuremberg               12. John II, Burgrave of Nuremberg                       25. Margaret of Gorizia               6. Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg                             26. Berthold VII, Count of Henneberg-Schleusingen               13. Elisabeth of Henneberg-Schleusingen                       27. Adelheid of Hesse               3. Beatrice of Nuremberg                                   28. Frederick I, Margrave of Meissen               14. Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen                       29. Elizabeth of Lobdeburg-Arnshaugk               7. Elisabeth of Meissen                             30. Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor               15. Mathilde of Bavaria                       31. Beatrice of Silesia