Albert I of Germany - Marriage and Children

Marriage and Children

In 1274 Albert had married Elizabeth, daughter of Count Meinhard II of Tyrol, who was a descendant of the Babenberg margraves of Austria who predated the Habsburgs' rule. The baptismal name Leopold, patron saint margrave of Austria, was given to one of their sons. Queen Elizabeth was in fact better connected to mighty German rulers than her husband: a descendant of earlier kings, for example Emperor Henry IV, she was also a niece of the Wittelsbach dukes of Bavaria, Austria's important neighbor.

Albert and his wife had twelve children:

  1. Rudolph III (ca. 1282 – 4 July 1307, Horažďovice), Married but line extinct and predeceased his father.
  2. Frederick I (1289 – 13 January 1330, Gutenstein). Married but line extinct.
  3. Leopold I (4 August 1290 – 28 February 1326, Strassburg). Married, had issue.
  4. Albert II (12 December 1298, Vienna – 20 July 1358, Vienna).
  5. Henry the Gentle (1299 – 3 February 1327, Bruck an der Mur). Married but line extinct.
  6. Meinhard, 1300 died young.
  7. Otto (23 July 1301, Vienna – 26 February 1339, Vienna). Married but line extinct.
  8. Anna 1280?, Vienna – 19 March 1327, Breslau), married:
    1. in Graz ca. 1295 to Herman, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel;
    2. in Breslau 1310 to Duke Henry VI the Good.
  9. Agnes (18 May 1281 – 10 June 1364, Königsfelden), married in Vienna 13 February 1296 King Andrew III of Hungary.
  10. Elizabeth (d. 19 May 1353), married 1304 Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine.
  11. Catherine (1295 – 18 January 1323, Naples), married Charles, Duke of Calabria in 1316.
  12. Jutta (d. 1329), married Ludwig V, Count of Öttingen in Baden, 26 March 1319.

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