Sigismund | |
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Archduke of Austria | |
Born | 26 October 1427 Innsbruck, Tyrol |
Died | Innsbruck | 4 March 1496 (aged 68)
Burial | Stams Abbey |
Spouse | Eleanor of Scotland Catherine of Saxony |
House | House of Habsburg |
Father | Frederick IV, Duke of Austria |
Mother | Anna 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.