Leopold II, Duke of Austria (1328 – 10 August 1344), a member of the

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, was the younger son of Duke Otto the Merry. Otto's first wife was

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, a daughter of

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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 Albert II (; 12 December 1298 – 16 August 1358), known as ''the Wise'' () or ''the Lame'' (), a member of the House of Habsburg, was duke of Austria and Styria from 1330, as well as duke of Carinthia and margrave of Carniola from 1335 until hi ...

, the brother of Otto, who continued to rule Austria until his death in 1358.

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