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| | Albert I of Habsburg |
 | | The founder of the great house of Hapsburg, was invested with the duchies of Austria and Styria, together with his brother Rudolph, in 1282. |
 | | Rudolph was unable to secure the succession to the German throne for his son, and on his death in 1291, the princes, fearing Albert's power, chose Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg as king. |
 | | He afterwards became estranged from Philip, and, in 1303, was recognized as German king and future emperor by Boniface, and, in return, admitted the right of the pope alone to bestow the imperial crown, and promised that none of his sons should be elected German king without the papal consent. |
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