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• Hij is geboren in het jaar 936 in Pöchlarn.
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  Leopold I van Oostenrijk (Pöchlarn?, ca. 936 - Würzburg, 10 juli 994) uit het geslacht der Babenbergers was markgraaf van de Beierse Oostmark.
  
  Leopold was een edelman uit het zuidoosten van Beieren, in 963 wordt hij genoemd bij een goederenruil in de omgeving van Salzburg (stad). In 976 steunde hij Otto II tijdens de opstand van Hendrik II van Beieren (hertog). Als beloning daarvoor werd hij benoemd tot markgraaf van Oostenrijk, als vervanger van een zekere Burkhard. Met deze benoeming viel het markgraafschap direct onder de koning en niet meer onder de hertog. In de volgende jaren verwierf hij ook in 977 de Traungau, in 979 de Sundergau en in 983 de Donaugau. In 991 breidde hij het markgraafschap uit tot aan de rivier de Fischa.
  
  Leopold overleed twee dagen nadat hij werd getroffen door een vergiftigde pijl tijdens een toernooi in Würzburg. De aanslag was een vergissing, de moordenaar wilde wraak nemen op Leopolds neef Hendrik van Schweinfurt, die de broer van de moordenaar de ogen had laten uitsteken. Leopold is begraven in Würzburg.
  
  Er zijn veel speculaties over de ouders van Leopold. Mogelijke vaders zijn Arnulf I van Beieren, Arnulf II van Beieren, Koenraad I van Zwaben en Berthold I van Beieren.

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  Leopold I (German: Luitpold, died 10 July 994), known as Leopold the Illustrious (German: Luitpold der Erlauchte), was the first Margrave of Austria from the House of Babenberg, ruling from 976 to his death in 994.[1] He is known today as the progenitor of the Babenberg dynasty in Austria.
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  Life
  
  The origins of Leopold the Illustrious are not known. According to early traditions, documented by Bishop Otto of Freising in the twelfth century, he is descended from Count Adalbert of Bamberg (died 906) and the Franconian Babenberg family whose genealogy is documented in Franconia Nobility.[2] According to some sources, his father Berthold was count of the Nordgau, the region north of Ratisbon in Bavaria.[1] A more recent theory identifies Leopold as the son of Arnulf, Duke of Bavaria.[3] While his descendance is disputed, some affiliation with the ducal Luitpoldings dynasty is probable.
  
  Leopold is first mentioned in a document from 962 as count of the Bavarian Donaugau region by Ratisbon,[4] count of the Traungau region,[1] and a faithful follower of Emperor Otto I.[5] After Otto I defeated the Magyars, he re-established the marchia in the conquered territories, placing them under the command of Burkhard,[1] a brother-in-law of Duchess Judith of Bavaria. When Burkhard joined the uprising of Henry the Wrangler against Emperor Otto II, he was deposed at the Imperial Diet of Regensburg in 976. According to a charter dated 21 July 976, Leopold was appointed margrave of the East Mark, the core territory of the later Archduchy of Austria.[6]
  
  The resettlement of the east was a slow process that centered around the Danube. Leopold's margravate originally coincided with the present-day Wachau valley, and whose eastern boundary was the Traisen river near Sankt Pölten east of Krems.[7] With the Magyar threat largely reduced following their defeat at the Battle of Lechfeld in 955, Leopold focused on securing his holdings from internal threats and dissensions.[7] In 984, he engaged in the reduction of the fortress at Melk, which was still controlled by supporters of the late margrave.[7] Once Melk was secured, Leopold most likely used it as his residence,[7] founding a monastery there for twelve secular priests.[1] By 987, Leopold extended the boundary of his margravate to the east as far as the Wienerwald.[8]
  
  In 994, Leopold travelled to Würzburg to mediate a dispute between his cousin Henry of Schweinfurt and Bishop Bernward von Rothenburg of Würzburg, one of whose knights Henry had seized and blinded.[9][10] At a tournament held on 8 July, Leopold was hit in the eye by an arrow directed at his nephew. Two days later, on 10 July 994, Leopold died from his injuries.[1][9][10][11] He was buried in Würzburg.[10] In 1015, his son Ernest I, Duke of Swabia, was buried next to his father.[10] In the thirteenth century, their remains were returned to Melk.[8]
  
  Leopold ruled over the East Mark for eighteen years, had organized and expanded it with great ability, and left behind a margravate that had assumed the character of "an ordered and civilized land".[9] The chronicler Thietmar wrote that no man was wiser that he in all his actions, or of a worthier nature.[11] Perhaps the highest testimony to Leopold's life and reputation came from the actions of Emperor Otto III, who immediately invested his son Henry I with his father's margravate.[9]
  
  Although Leopold is not mentioned in the Babenberger Chronicle written by his descendant Otto of Freising—which only starts with Leopold's grandson Adalbert—he is known today as the progenitor of the Babenberg dynasty. Otto of Freising's claim of ancestry to the Franconian Babenbergs, who are remembered for the Babenberger insurgency of the early tenth century, has not been proven, but cannot be completely ruled out.
  
  In 1976, the millennial anniversary of Leopold's appointment as margrave was celebrated as a "Thousand Years of Austria". Celebrations under the same title were held twenty years later at the anniversary of the famous 996 Ostarrîchi document first mentioning the Old German name of Austria.
  Marriage
  
  Leopold married Richardis of Sualafeldgau, the daughter of Erenfried II of Sualafeldgau and the aunt of Adalbero, Duke of Carinthia.[12] Their marriage produced eight children

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  The House of Babenberg was the ruling noble family of Austria from 976 to 1246. Originally from Bamberg in Franconia in present-day Bavaria, the Babenbergs were counts, margraves, and dukes in the Danube region of present-day Upper Austria, Lower Austria, and Styria.[1]
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  One or two families
  
  The Babenberg family can be broken down into two distinct groups: 1) The Franconian Babenbergs, the so called Elder House of Babenberg, or Popponids out of which came the Hennebergs and the Counts of Schweinfurt. 2) Austrian Babenbergs which ruled Austria. The second group claimed to have originated from the first but scholars have not been able to verify that claim.
  
  Margraves of Austria
  The Babenberg family tree at Klosterneuburg
  
  In 976 Leopold I, a member of the Babenberg family, who was a count in the Donnegau, is described as count of the Eastern March, a district not more than 60 miles in breadth on the eastern frontier of Bavaria which grew into the duchy of Austria. Leopold, who received the mark as a reward for his fidelity to the emperor Otto II during the Bavarian rising in 976, extended its area at the expense of the Hungarians, and was succeeded in 994 by his son Henry I. Henry, who continued his father's policy, was followed in 1018 by his brother Adalbert and in 1055 by his nephew, Ernest, whose marked loyalty to the emperors Henry II and Henry III was rewarded by many tokens of favour.
  
  The succeeding margrave, Leopold II, quarrelled with Henry III, who was unable to oust him from the mark or to prevent the succession of his son Leopold III in 1096. Leopold supported Henry, the son of Henry IV, in his rising against his father, but was soon drawn over to the emperor's side, and in 1106 married the daughter of emperor Henry IV, Agnes, widow of Frederick I of Swabia. He declined the imperial crown in 1125. His zeal in founding monasteries earned for him his surname "the Pious", and canonization by Pope Innocent VIII in 1485. He is regarded as the patron saint of Austria.
  Elevation to dukes
  
  One of Leopold's sons was Otto, bishop of Freising. His eldest son, Leopold IV, became margrave in 1136, and in 1139 received from the German king Conrad III the duchy of Bavaria, which had been forfeited by Henry the Proud. Leopold's brother Henry (surnamed Jasomirgott, allegedly from his favourite oath, "So help me God!") was made count palatine of the Rhine in 1140, and became margrave of Austria on Leopold's death in 1141. Having married Gertrude, the widow of Henry the Proud, he was invested in 1143 with the duchy of Bavaria, and resigned his office as count palatine. In 1147 he went on crusade, and after his return, renounced Bavaria at the instance of the new king Frederick I who gave the duchy of Bavaria to Henry the Lion of Saxony. As compensation for this, Austria, the capital of which had been transferred to Vienna in 1156, was elevated into a duchy in the Privilegium Minus.
  The rise of Babenberg power
  
  The second duke was Henry's son Leopold V, who succeeded him in 1177 and took part in, the crusades of 1182 and 1190. In Palestine he quarrelled with Richard I of England, captured him on his homeward journey and handed him over to the emperor Henry VI. Leopold increased the territories of the Babenbergs by acquiring Styria under the will of his kinsman Duke Ottokar IV. He died in 1194, and Austria fell to one son, Frederick, and Styria to another, Leopold; but on Frederick's death in 1198 they were again united by Duke Leopold VI, surnamed "the Glorious".
  
  The new duke fought against the infidels in Spain, Egypt and Palestine, but is more celebrated as a lawgiver, a patron of letters and a founder of towns. Under him Vienna became the centre of culture in Germany and the great school of Minnesingers. His later years were spent in strife with his son Frederick, and he died in 1230 at San Germano, now renamed Cassino, whither he had gone to arrange the peace between the emperor Frederick II and Pope Gregory IX.
  The Last of the Babenbergs
  
  Frederick II, Leopold VI's son by Theodora Angelina, succeeded his father as duke upon the elder man's death in 1230. Frederick II soon earned the epithet "the Quarrelsome" as a result of his ongoing disputes with the kings of Hungary and Bohemia and with the Holy Roman Emperor, also named Frederick II. The Austrian Frederick II deprived his mother and sisters of their possessions, was hated by his subjects on account of his oppressive rule, and, in 1236, was placed under the imperial ban and driven from Austria. However, he was later restored to his duchy when the Emperor Frederick II was excommunicated. Subsequently, the Austrian Frederick II treated with the Emperor Frederick II in vain to make Austria a kingdom.
  
  The male line of the Babenbergs became extinct in 1246, when Frederick II "the Quarrelsome" was killed in battle (the Henneberg branch of the Franconian Babenbergs lived on until 1583 when its lands where divided among the two branches of the Wettin family).
  
  His heir general was Gertrude of Austria, the only child of his late elder brother, Henry of Austria by that man's wife, Agnes of Thuringia. However, neither her husbands or her son succeeded in settling the Babenberg inheritance under their power.
  
  After some years of struggle known as the Interregnum, the Duchies of Austria and Styria fell to Otakar II of Bohemia, and subsequently to Rudolph I of Habsburg, whose descendants were to rule Austria until 1918.
  Genetic Legacy
  Babenberg coat of arms, later used by the Habsburgs and the state of Austria
  Byzantine Blood
  
  All the Babenberg dukes from Leopold V onward were descended from Byzantine emperors - Leopold's mother, Theodora Komnene, being a granddaughter of the Emperor, John II Komnenos. Subsequently, Leopold V's younger son, Leopold VI, also married a Byzantine princess (Theodora Angelina), as did his youngest son (by Theodora), Frederick II, who married Sophia Laskarina.
  The Babenbergs and the Habsburgs
  
  The next dynasty in Austria - the Habsburgs - were originally not descendants of the Babenbergs. It was not until the children of Albert I of Germany that the Babenberg blood was brought into the Habsburg line, though this blood was from the pre-ducal Babenbergs. A side effect of this marriage was the use of the Babenberg name Leopold by the Habsburgs for one of their sons.
  
  The Habsburgs did eventually gain descent from the Babenberg dukes, though at different times. The first Habsburg line to be descended from the Babenbergs was the Albertine line. This was achieved through the marriage of Albert III, Duke of Austria to Beatrix of Nuremberg. As such, their son, Albert IV, Duke of Austria, was the first Habsburg duke who was descended from the Babenberg dukes. However, the male line of that branch of the Habsburgs died out in 1457 with Ladislas V Posthumus of Bohemia.
  
  The next Habsburg line to gain Babenberg blood was the Styrian line, which occurred with the children of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary, the latter of whom descended from Babenberg dukes. It was actually from Elizabeth of Austria, the sister of Ladislas V Posthumus of Bohemia, that the Styrian line gained their Babenberg blood.
  
  The Spanish line was the last Habsburg line to gain Babenberg blood. Again it was via the previous Habsburg line to gain Babenberg blood (i.e. the Styrian) that the Spanish Habsburg gained their descent from the Babenbergs - Anna of Austria, the wife of Philip II of Spain and mother of Philip (from whom all subsequent Spanish Habsburgs were descended), was a male-line granddaughter of Ferdinand and Anna. As a result, after 1598, all Habsburg males descended from the Babenberg Dukes.

• Hij is overleden op 10 juli 994 in Würzburg, hij was toen 58 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Arnulf I "De Boze" van Beieren en Judith in de Sülichgouw
• Deze gegevens zijn voor het laatst bijgewerkt op 22 november 2012.

Gezin van Leopold I van Oostenrijk

Hij is getrouwd met Richardis van Sualafelgau.

Zij zijn getrouwdBron 4

Kind(eren):

1. Poppo van Babenberg  -1047
2. Christine van Oostenrijk  
3. Cunigonde van Oostenrijk  
4. Hemma van Oostenrijk  
5. Hendrik I van Oostenrijk  
6. Judith van Oostenrijk  
7. Ernst I van Zwaben  980-1015 
8. Adalbert "de Zegenrijke" van Oostenrijk  985-1055 

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