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Major conflict1278

Battle on the Marchfeld

Dürnkrut · Jedenspeigen · Marchfeld · Lower Austria

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

On 26 August 1278, Rudolf I of Habsburg, allied with King Ladislaus IV of Hungary, defeated and killed King Ottokar II of Bohemia in one of the largest cavalry battles of medieval Central Europe. The outcome ended Přemyslid expansion and launched the rise of the House of Habsburg in Austria.

Belligerents2

  • Holy Roman Empire (Habsburg-Hungarian alliance)
  • Kingdom of Bohemia

Conflict graph

PART OFBohemian Wars

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Battle on the Marchfeld
  2. Deutschlandmuseum: Battle of Dürnkrut
  3. HCED — Miller & Bakar (2023), Historical Conflict Event Dataset, J. Conflict Resolution 67(2-3)
  4. Jaques, Dictionary of Battles and Sieges (HCED primary source)
  5. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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