Frederick III Elected King of Germany
1440
The Styrian Habsburg began a fifty-three-year reign, the longest of any Holy Roman emperor. He was indolent, stubborn, and unlucky in war, but he outlived all his enemies and arranged his son Maximilian's marriage to the Burgundian heiress. His motto, AEIOU, was said to mean Austria will rule the whole world.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.