Albert III | duke of Austria | Britannica (original) (raw)

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participation in Battle of Näfels

• In Battle of Näfels
  …truce (February 1388), the Habsburg Albert III of Austria advanced with an army against Glarus; but the rebels, reinforced by troops from Schwyz, first checked the invasion by holding the heights above Näfels, at the northern entrance to their valley, and then repelled it by a bloody counterattack. Further Swiss…
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place in Habsburg line

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  In house of Habsburg: Austria and the rise of the Habsburgs in Germany
  …after his death the brothers Albert III and Leopold III of Austria agreed on a partition (Treaty of Neuberg, 1379): Albert took Austria, and Leopold took Styria, Carinthia, and Tirol.
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role in Austria

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  In Austria: Division of the Habsburg lands
  …1365 by his two brothers, Albert III and Leopold III. After some years of joint rule, however, they quarreled and in 1379, by the Treaty of Neuberg, partitioned the family lands. Albert, as the elder brother, received the more prosperous countries on the Danube (Upper and Lower Austria). The rest…
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