
Leopold I
Leopold I.
Holy Roman Emperor · King of Bohemia · King of Hungary · Archduke of Austria
1640 – 1705
Biography
His forty-seven-year reign saw the great Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683, broken at the last possible moment by the relief army of John Sobieski of Poland, and the long Habsburg counter-offensive that recaptured Hungary and pushed the Ottomans back to Belgrade. He fought Louis XIV of France for the Spanish succession from 1701, dying with the war unfinished.
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