!!!Rudolf IV. der Stifter

b. Nov. 1, 1339, 
d. Milan (Italy), July 27, 1365, eldest son of Duke  Albrecht II, 
brother of  Albrecht III and  Leopold III. From 1358 Duke, 1362 
temporarily secured Friuli and in 1363 the Tyrol, founded Vienna 
University in 1365 and arranged for the construction of St. Stephen's 
Cathedral to be continued. Documents were forged on his order ( 
Privilegium maius). 1364 entered into a contract of succession with 
his father-in-law Emperor Karl IV, 1364 set up the  Rudolfinische 
Hausordnung (agreement on the possession and the law of succession of 
the Habsburg territories) together with his brothers Albrecht III and 
Leopold III. Buried in St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna. Monuments in 
Vienna at the Singertor entrance to St. Stephen's, in front of the 
Town Hall and in the ceremonial hall of the University. His portrait 
was the first to be painted of a prince in Central Europe.

!Literature
U. Begrich, Die fuerstl. "Majestaet" Hzg. R. von Oe., 
1965; A. Lhotsky, Die Problematik der geschichtl. Erscheinung R., in: 
ders., Aufsaetze und Vortraege, vol. 5, 1976; W. Baum, R. der Stifter. 
Seine Welt und seine Zeit, 1996.



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