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was appointed as the supreme commander of the entire imperial army. He was supposed to oppose
Matthias' Black army. After the Hungarian occupation of Vienna, Albrecht's task was to reconquer the lost Austrian territories. However, this failed due to the poor equipment of his army, so he had to wage a
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Corvinus offered Emperor Frederick and his son prince Maximilian, the return of Austrian provinces and Vienna, if they would renounce the treaty of 1463 and accept Matthias as Frederic's designated political heir and probable the inheritor of the title of Holy Roman Emperor. Before this was
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During his reign in
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Emperor
Frederick failed to procure help from the Prince-electors and the Imperial States. In 1483 he had to leave his Hofburg residence in Vienna and fled to Wiener Neustadt, where he also was besieged by Matthias' troops for 18 months until the fortress was captured in 1487. Humiliated, Frederick
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Having concluded a peace agreement with King
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too selfish to protect the monarchy. However, he could not enforce the Habsburg succession to the Hungarian throne and in 1491 his son King
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