State · 976 – 1156

Margraviate of Austria

A state of 976 – 1156 — 180 years in Europe. The atlas records 8 things within it — people 8. Its line of rulers holds 8 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 180 years; 976 – 1156
Rulers: 8; the margrave
Within it: 8; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.

Rulers

The line of margrave.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Leopold I, Margrave of Austria	976 – 994	18 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Henry I of Austria	994 – 1018	24 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Adalbert, Margrave of Austria	1018 – 1055	37 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Ernest, Margrave of Austria	1055 – 1075	20 years	died in battleWikidata's manner of death	child
Leopold II	1075 – 1095	20 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Leopold III	1095 – 1136	41 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Leopold, Duke of Bavaria	1136 – 1141	5 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Henry II of Austria	1141 – 1156	15 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	sibling

8 rulers, 8 with terms dated as terms, covering 976 – 1156. Median reign 20 years. 1 of 7 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedCoA Lower Austria · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Nomadic1
coat of arms, undatedAltösterreich Adalbert Babenberger Stammbaum · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

900 – 9993 rows

Leopold I, Margrave of Austria · ruler · 935 – 994
Adalbert, Margrave of Austria · ruler · 985 – 1055
Henry I of Austria · ruler · 965 – 1018

1000 – 10993 rows

Leopold III · ruler · 1073 – 1136
Leopold II · ruler · 1050 – 1095
Ernest, Margrave of Austria · ruler · 1027 – 1075

1100 – 11992 rows

Henry II of Austria · ruler · 1107 – 1177
Leopold, Duke of Bavaria · ruler · 1108 – 1141

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood180 years
stood longer than 59% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median20 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 62% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record8
has more rulers on record than 76% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 958 – 1174, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1066, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q283627 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.