!!!Albrecht III

b. Vienna, 1349/50, 
d. Laxenburg (Lower Austria), Aug. 29, 1395, son of  
Albrecht II, Duke of Austria (conjointly with his brother  
Leopold III until 1379). In the  Neuberger Teilungsvertrag he 
retained Austria (with the Salzkammergut area) and thus established 
the  Albertinian Line. 1386 took on the administration of the 
Leopoldine dominions; 1388 defeated by the Swiss at Naefels. 
Strengthened his position (feud of Schaunberg), proceeded with the 
construction of St. Stephen´s Cathedral and the extension 
of the University of Vienna (Faculty of Theology). Was himself 
well-educated and commissioned Leopold  Stainreuter to draw up a 
chronicle of the lands. 1394 he hoped to procure the German Crown. Was 
called Albrecht with the Plait as a result of the order of chivalry he 
belonged to.

!Literature
B. Hamann (ed.), Die Habsburger, %%sup 4/%1993.



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