Albert IV, Duke of Austria

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Albert IV (September 19, 1377, Vienna–September 14, 1404, Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria) was a duke of Austria.

Born as a son of Duke 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.

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.

[edit] Family and children

He married in Vienna 24 April 1390 to Johanna of Bavaria, daughter of Albrecht I, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing and Margarete of Brieg. They children were:

1. Albert V (16 August 1397–27 October 1439, Langendorf).
2. Margarete (26 June 1395, Vienna–24 December 1447), married in Landshut 25 November 1412 to Duke Henry XVI of Bavaria.

Preceded by Albert III

Duke of Austria 1395–1404

Succeeded by Albert V