Ernest, Duke of Austria

Ernst the Iron (* 1377 in Bruck an der Mur, † June 10, 1424 ibid ) from the House of Habsburg was Duke of Inner Austria.

Ernst is the fourth son of Duke Leopold III. (1351-1386) and his wife Princess Viridis Visconti of Milan from the home, a daughter of Bernabo Visconti and his wife Beatrice della Scala.

Life

Ernst was after the death of his father fallen at Sempach in 1386 Leopold III. of the righteous under the tutelage of Albrecht with the braid. In 1401 he accompanied the German king Rupert on the train to Italy against the Visconti of Milan. In the division in 1406 ( after the death of the eldest brother William ) received the Ernst Styria, Carinthia and Carniola, and led with his brother Leopold the thicknesses, the guardianship of the minors Albrecht V, the later Roman-German King Albrecht II, as a result, 1407 a civil war broke out, which was settled in May 1409. On March 18, 1414 it was possible to use as the last Duke of Carinthia in the old tradition of the Prince's Stone in Karnburg in Slovenian ( historically " windisch " ) and called himself by this time to Archduke. He is the first Habsburg who has actually done this by Rudolf the Founder invented title. He was beaten in Jerusalem in 1414 to the grave knight.

With King Sigismund he had lived since 1412 in strife. When his youngest brother Frederick, who had been declared with the empty bag of King Sigismund in 1417, the Eight, Serious first tried himself to seize the territories of Frederick, then possible, however, with his brother and defended by name Tirol against the claims of the king, and compelled them by his threatening attitude to surrender most of his claims. As regent of Inner Austria he managed with firmness his princely rights, and as a member of Leopoldinisch - Inner Austrian line in his firstborn, Frederick V, III later. as Emperor, the other two, the albertinisch - Austrian line and the Tyrolean branch line survived, he inherited the house of Habsburg.

He died 1424 in Bruck an der Mur. His tomb is located in the Cistercian monastery of Rein near Graz. The epithet the Iron came into use only after his death.

Progeny

Duke Ernst of Austria and Styria married his first marriage on January 14, 1392 in Bruck an der Mur Princess Margaret ( 1366-1407 ), daughter of Bogislaw V, Duke of Pomerania and his wife Princess Adelheid of Brunswick- Grubenhagen. The marriage remained childless.

His second wife he married in 1412 in Bruck an der Mur, the herzöglich Masovian Cymburgis Princess of Mazovia ( also Cimburka, Zimburg or Zimburgis ) ( 1394-1429 ), daughter of Duke masowienischen Ziemowit IV and his wife, Grand Duchess Alexandra of Lithuania. The marriage produced nine children were born:

• Friedrich III. (V. ) ( 1415-1493 ) ∞ 1452 Infanta Eleanor of Portugal ( 1436-1467 ), daughter of Portuguese King Edward I and his wife Eleanor of Aragon.
• Margaret (1416-1486), ∞ 1431 Elector Frederick II of Saxony ( 1412-1464 ), son of the Saxon Elector Friedrich I and his wife Princess Katharina of Brunswick- Lüneburg.
• Albrecht VI. (1418-1463), ∞ 1452 Princess Matilda of the Palatinate ( 1419-1482 ), daughter of the Elector Ludwig III. of the Palatinate, and his wife Countess Matilda of Savoy.
• Catherine (1420-1493), ∞ 1447 Margrave Karl I of Baden ( 1427-1475 ), son of the Margrave of Baden James I and his wife Princess Catherine of Lorraine
• Ernst (1420-1432)
• Alexandra (* / † 1421 )
• Anna (* / † 1422 )
• Rudolf ( * / † 1424)
• Leopold (* / † 1424)

See also: List of the Marquesses and Dukes of Austria in the Middle Ages