Leopold II, Duke of Austria (1328 – 10 August 1344), a member of the
House of Habsburg
The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...
, was the younger son of
Duke Otto the Merry.
Otto's first wife was
Elizabeth of Bavaria
Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie in Bavaria (24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898) was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898.
Elisabeth was ...
, a daughter of
Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria by his marriage to Jutta of Schweidnitz. They had two sons, Leopold and his brother
Frederick III (1327–1344), and after their father's death in 1339 both were titular Dukes of Austria, but both died before coming of age.
Constantin von Wurzbach
Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (11 April 1818 – 17 August 1893) was an Austrian biographer, lexicographer and author.
Biography
He was born in Laibach, Carniola (present-day Ljubljana, Slovenia).He later went on to complete a cou ...
, 'Habsburg, Leopold II (Herzog von Oesterreich)' in ''Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich'', vol. 6 (Vienna: L. C. Zamarski, 1860), p. 411 On 10 August 1344, at the age of sixteen, Leopold died suddenly. On 11 December 1344, four months later, his brother Frederick also died equally suddenly. In both cases, there were suspicions of poisoning. The beneficiary of their deaths was their uncle
Albert II, Duke of Austria, the brother of Otto, who continued to rule Austria until his death in 1358.
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1328 births
1344 deaths
14th-century dukes of Austria
Sons of monarchs