Leopold V, Archduke of Further Austria (9 October 1586 – 13 September 1632) was the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria, and the younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand II, father of Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Further Austria. He was Prince-

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, until he resigned to get married, and Archduke of

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including

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Biography

Leopold was born in

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, and was invested as bishop in 1598, as a child, even though he had not been ordained as a priest; he became Prince-

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in 1607, a post which he held until 1626. From 1609 onwards he fought with his

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in the

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Archduke Leopold in the War of the Jülich Succession
, and in the Brothers' Quarrel within the Austrian Habsburg dynasty against his first cousin Maximilian III, Archduke of Further Austria in

, and from 1611 for his first cousin

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. In 1614, he financed the construction of the Church of the Jesuit College of

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is still prominently displayed. In 1619, upon the death of his kinsman and former rival, he became governor of Maximilian's inheritance:

and Tyrol, where he attained the position of ruler as Archduke of Further Austria from 1626 to his death in 1632. In 1626 he resigned his ecclesiastical positions and married

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. He had the

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and the Jesuit church built in

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. He fought for the Veltlin and defended Tyrol against the

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in 1632. He died in Schwaz, Tyrol. 1 thaler Leopold V of Austria - 1621

Issue

With his wife

, he became the founder of a sideline of the

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family, which persisted until 1665 - the most recent line of Archdukes of Further Austria. His children were: * Maria-Eleonora 1627–1629 * Ferdinand Charles (1628–1662); married Anna de' Medici * Isabella-Clara (1629–1685); married Charles III, Duke of Mantua * Sigismund Francis (1630-1665); married Hedwig of the Palatinate-Sulzbach * Maria Leopoldine (1632–1649); married Emperor Ferdinand III

Ancestors

Male-line family tree

References

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