Leopold V, Archduke of Austria
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Leopold V, Archduke of Further Austria (October 9, 1586 – September 13, 1632) was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria, and the younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand II, father of Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Further Austria. He was Prince-Bishop of Passau and of Strasbourg, until he resigned to get married, and Archduke of Further Austria including Tyrol.
| Leopold V | |
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| Bishop of Passau and Strasbourg | |
 Portrait by Joseph Heintz the Elder, c. 1604 | |
| Archduke of Further Austria | |
| Reign | 1623 – 13 September 1632 |
| Predecessor | Maximilian III (1618) |
| Successor | Ferdinand Charles |
| Born | October 9, 1586 Graz, Duchy of Styria, Holy Roman Empire |
| Died | September 13, 1632 (aged 45) Schwaz, County of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empire |
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| Issue | |
| House | Habsburg |
| Father | Charles II, Archduke of Austria |
| Mother | Maria Anna of Bavaria |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Biography
editLeopold was born in Graz, and was invested as bishop in 1598, as a child, even though he had not been ordained as a priest; he became Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg in 1607, a post which he held until 1626. From 1609 onwards he fought with his mercenaries in the War of the Jülich succession (Archduke Leopold in the War of the Jülich Succession), and in the Brothers' Quarrel within the Austrian Habsburg dynasty against his first cousin Maximilian III, Archduke of Further Austria in Tyrol, and from 1611 for his first cousin Rudolf II in Bohemia. In 1614, he financed the construction of the Church of the Jesuit College of Molsheim, within which his coat of arms is still prominently displayed.
In 1619, upon the death of his kinsman and former rival, he became governor of Maximilian's inheritance: Further Austria and Tyrol, where he attained the position of ruler as Archduke of Further Austria from 1626 to his death in 1632. In 1626 he resigned his ecclesiastical positions and married Claudia de' Medici. He had the custom house and the Jesuit church built in Innsbruck. He fought for the Veltlin and defended Tyrol against the Swedes in 1632. He died in Schwaz, Tyrol.
Issue
editWith his wife Claudia de' Medici, he became the founder of a sideline of the Habsburg family, which persisted until 1665 - the most recent line of Archdukes of Further Austria.
His children were:
- Maria-Eleonora 1627–1629
- Ferdinand Charles (1628–1662); married Anna de' Medici
- Isabella-Clara (1629–1685); married Charles III, Duke of Mantua
- Sigismund Francis (1630-1665); married Hedwig of the Palatinate-Sulzbach
- Maria Leopoldine (1632–1649); married Emperor Ferdinand III
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Male-line family tree
editReferences
edit- ^ Year: 1620 - 1621; Composition: Silver; Weight: 28,4 gram; Diameter: 42 mm - 1 Thaler - Leopold V governor - County of Tyrol – Numista
- ^ a b Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1860). . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 6. p. 352 – via Wikisource.
- ^ a b Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1861). . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 7. p. 20 – via Wikisource.
- ^ Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ a b Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ a b Obermayer-Marnach, Eva (1953), "Anna Jagjello", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 1, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 299; (full text online)
- ^ a b Goetz, Walter (1953), "Albrecht V.", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 1, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 158–160; (full text online)
- ^ a b Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1860). . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 6. p. 151 – via Wikisource.