Albert VI, Duke of Austria
| Albert VI | |
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| Archduke of Austria | |
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| Duke of Inner Austria | |
| Reign | 10 June 1424 – 2 December 1463 |
| Predecessor | Ernest the Iron |
| Successor | Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor |
| Archduke of Austria | |
| Reign | 23 November 1457 – 2 December 1463 |
| Predecessor | Ladislaus the Posthumous |
| Successor | Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor |
| Born |
18 December 1418 Vienna, Austria |
| Died | 2 December 1463 (aged 44) Vienna, Austria |
| Burial | St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna |
| Spouse | Mechthild of the Palatinate |
| House | Habsburg |
| Father | Ernest the Iron |
| Mother | Cymburgis of Masovia |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Albert VI (German: Albrecht VI.; 18 December 1418 – 2 December 1463), a member of the House of Habsburg, was Duke of Austria from 1424, elevated to Archduke in 1453. As a scion of the Leopoldian line, he ruled over the Inner Austrian duchies of Styria, Carinthia and Carniola from 1424, from 1457 also over the Archduchy of Austria until his death, rivalling with his elder brother Emperor Frederick III. According to tradition, Albert, later known as the Prodigal, was the exact opposite of Frederick: energetic and inclined to thoughtlessness.
Albert was born in Vienna, the son of the Inner Austrian duke Ernest the Iron from his second marriage with the Piast princess Cymburgis of Masovia. Still minors upon the death of their father in 1424, he and his brother remained under the tutelage of their uncle Duke Frederick IV of the Empty Pockets, who ruled over Further Austria and the County of Tyrol.
Coming of age in 1436, Albert, though a junior heir of Inner Austria, received no full rulership anywhere for a long time, which caused friction in his relations with his elder brother Frederick V. When in 1439 both Duke Frederick IV of Further Austria and King Albert II of Germany, Duke of Austria died, Archduke Frederick assumed the guardianship over their minor sons Sigismund and Ladislaus the Posthumous. As Habsburg patriarch, heir of Inner Austria and regent of Further Austria, Tyrol and the Austria proper, he then ruled over all the dynasty's hereditary lands. At that stage, Albert began quarreling with his brother and in 1446 claimed the lands of Further Austria from him.
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