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Leopold V
Bishop of Passau and Strasbourg
Portrait by Joseph Heintz the Elder, c. 1604
Archduke of Further Austria
Reign	1623 – 13 September 1632
Predecessor	Maximilian III (1618)
Successor	Ferdinand Charles
Born	(1586-10-09)October 9, 1586 Graz, Duchy of Styria, Holy Roman Empire
Died	September 13, 1632(1632-09-13) (aged 45) Schwaz, County of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empire
Spouse	Claudia de' Medici ​(m. 1626)​
Issue	Maria-Eleonora of Austria Ferdinand Charles, Archduke of Austria Archduchess Isabella Clara of Austria Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria Maria Leopoldine of Austria
House	Habsburg
Father	Charles II, Archduke of Austria
Mother	Maria Anna of Bavaria
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Leopold V, Archduke of Further Austria (October 9, 1586 – September 13, 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-Bishop of Passau and of Strasbourg, until he resigned to get married, and Archduke of Further Austria including Tyrol.

Biography

Leopold was born in Graz, and was invested as bishop in 1598, as a child, even though he had not been ordained as a priest; he became Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg in 1607, a post which he held until 1626. From 1609 onwards he fought with his mercenaries in the War of the Jülich succession (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 Tyrol, and from 1611 for his first cousin Rudolf II in Bohemia. In 1614, he financed the construction of the Church of the Jesuit College of Molsheim, within which his coat of arms is still prominently displayed.

In 1619, upon the death of his kinsman and former rival, he became governor of Maximilian's inheritance: Further Austria 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 Claudia de' Medici. He had the custom house and the Jesuit church built in Innsbruck. He fought for the Veltlin and defended Tyrol against the Swedes in 1632. He died in Schwaz, Tyrol.

Issue

With his wife Claudia de' Medici, he became the founder of a sideline of the Habsburg 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

1. Year: 1620 - 1621; Composition: Silver; Weight: 28,4 gram; Diameter: 42 mm - 1 Thaler - Leopold V governor - County of Tyrol – Numista
2. ^ Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1860). "Habsburg, Karl II. von Steiermark" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 6. p. 352 – via Wikisource.
3. ^ Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1861). "Habsburg, Maria von Bayern" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 7. p. 20 – via Wikisource.
4. Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor at the Encyclopædia Britannica
5. ^ Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor at the Encyclopædia Britannica
6. ^ Obermayer-Marnach, Eva (1953), "Anna Jagjello", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 1, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, p. 299; (full text online)
7. ^ Goetz, Walter (1953), "Albrecht V.", Neue Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 1, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 158–160; (full text online)
8. ^ Wurzbach, Constantin von, ed. (1860). "Habsburg, Anna von Oesterreich (1528–1587)" . Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich [Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire] (in German). Vol. 6. p. 151 – via Wikisource.

• 1586 births
• 1632 deaths
• 17th-century archdukes of Austria
• Counts of Tyrol
• 17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Holy Roman Empire
• Roman Catholic bishops of Passau
• Bishops of Strasbourg
• Knights of the Golden Fleece
• Further Austria