Sigismund, Archduke of Austria

Sigismund
Archduke of Austria
Portrait by the Master of the Mornauer Portrait, circa 1470 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich)
Born26 October 1427
Innsbruck, Tyrol
Died(1496-03-04)4 March 1496 (aged 68)
Innsbruck
BuriedStams Abbey
Noble familyHouse of Habsburg
Spouse(s)Eleanor of Scotland
Catherine of Saxony
FatherFrederick IV, Duke of Austria
MotherAnna of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Sigismund (26 October 1427 – 4 March 1496), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of Austria from 1439 (elevated to Archduke in 1477) until his death. As a scion of the Habsburg Leopoldian line, he ruled over Further Austria and the County of Tyrol from 1446 until his resignation in 1490.


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