biography
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Habsburg, Friedrich III von
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pronunciation:
[habsburg]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1415–93)
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| biography:
| German emperor, born in Innsbruck, W Austria, the son of Duke Ernst der Eiserne of Austria. He succeeded Albrecht II von Habsburg in 1440 and was the last German emperor to be crowned by the pope in Rome (1452). In 1448 he signed the Wiener Konkordat with Pope Nicholas V which regulated Church relations until secularization in 1806, with the decline of the Holy Roman Empire. He gained Lower Austria (1458), Upper Austria (1463), and Lorraine (1475), and lost Bohemia to Georg von Podiebrad (1452) and Hungary to Matthias Corvinus (1457) on the death of Ladislaus. The engagement of his son Maximilian, later Emperor Maximilian I, in 1477 to Marie, daughter of Charles the Bold, brought a large portion of the Burgundian domains under Habsburg rule, thus making Austria a major power. |
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