De occisione Alberti regis Romanorum.
The Murder of King Albert
In 1308, Albert, king of the Romans, was assassinated by his nephew John over a disputed inheritance of the duchy of Austria.
In the year of our Lord 1308, on the feast of Saints Philip and James, Albert, king of the Romans, was killed by John, the duke called Anlaut, his own nephew, because Albert had seized part of the duchy of Austria from him, even though the nephew was the rightful heir.12
Read the original Latin
Annp domini mcccviii in die beatorum Philippi et Jacobi Albertus rex Ro-liMai manorum a Joanne duce dicto Anlaut nepote suo occiditur, quia partem ducatus Austrie abstulit ei, licet esset verus heres.
Notes
- 1 ↩The Latin text is heavily corrupted (e.g. 'Annp' for 'Anno', 'Ro-liMai' for 'Romanorum', 'Austrie'). The normalized reading has been reconstructed from context and standard chronicle phrasing. The translation follows the corrected sense.
- 2 ↩'occiditur' rendered as 'was killed' rather than 'was slain' or 'was murdered' to maintain the chronicle's neutral narrative register.
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