Guy's claim was challenged by Conrad of Montferrat, second husband of Sibylla's half-sister, Isabella: Conrad, whose defence of Tyre had saved the kingdom in 1187, was supported by Philip of France, son of his first cousin Louis VII of France, and by another cousin, Duke Leopold V of Austria.

After several years of bloody war, victory finally seemed within the grasp of Frederick, who was strongly supported by his brother Leopold.

On the other hand, the majority of the nobility of the Kingdom of Aragon supported Charles of Austria, son of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and claimant to the Spanish throne by right of his grandmother Maria Anna of Spain.

In return for this, when Richard arrived at Acre, he supported Guy against Conrad, who had the support of his kinsmen Philip II of France and Leopold V of Austria.

This is supported by knowledge that Bach wished to end his tenure under Prince Leopold.

As Guy was a vassal of Richard I of England for his lands in Poitou, Richard supported him in this political struggle, while Conrad was supported by his cousin Leopold V of Austria and cousin once-removed Philip II of France.

They supported Belgium's King Leopold II, who had imposed slave labor conditions in the colony.

However, Leopold developed and supported many social and economic reforms.

* In 1879-1884, the explorer Henry Morton Stanley ( b. 1841-d. 1904 ) was styled Plenipotentiary of the Committee for the Studies of Upper Congo ( CEHC ) ( from 1882, renamed International Association of the Congo, a front for the ambitions of Belgian King Leopold II, not supported by the Belgian government ) in Equatorial Africa, while military command lay with four consecutive Commandants of the ( leading ) station at Karema ; on 22 April 1884 the International Association of the Congo became the independent Free Congo State, under regular authorities ( headed, strictly personal, by Belgian king Leopold II ), at first styled Administrator-general.

He nevertheless was able to hold his ground against the Wittelsbach rival and after several years of bloody war, victory finally seemed to be within Frederick's grasp, as he was strongly supported by the forces of his younger brother Leopold I.

While the patricians supported Ernest the Iron, the artisans supported Leopold IV.

Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, supported Cosimo's claim, not wanting to see Lorraine revert to France.

Nevertheless, he strongly opposed the French revolution and supported the moderate enlightened constitutionalism of Leopold II.

He supported the candidature of the Orléanist Louis, Duke of Nemours, and joined in the proposal to offer the crown to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, being one of the delegates sent to London.

Apart from overseeing the training of the European-style military bands of Mahmud ’ s modern army, he taught music at the palace to the members of the Ottoman royal family, the princes and the ladies of the harem, is believed to have composed the first national anthem of the Ottoman Empire, supported the annual Italian opera season in Pera, organised concerts and operatic performances at court, and played host to a number of eminent virtuosi who visited Istanbul at the time, such as Franz Liszt, Parish Alvars and Leopold de Meyer.

As the Welf duke Henry the Proud, son-in-law and heir of Lothair and the most powerful prince in Germany, who had been passed over in the election, refused to acknowledge the new king, Conrad III deprived him of all his territories, giving the Duchy of Saxony to Albert the Bear and that of Bavaria to Leopold IV, Margrave of Austria.

Hereby Leopold II obtained control via his International African Society and later the International Congolese Society, so-called philanthropic organizations who hired the British explorer Henry Morton Stanley to establish its authority.

On his way to the territory of his brother-in-law Henry of Saxony, Richard was captured shortly before Christmas 1192 near Vienna by Leopold V, Duke of Austria who accused Richard of arranging the murder of his cousin Conrad of Montferrat.

In response Pope Celestine III excommunicated Henry VI, as he had Duke Leopold, for the continued wrongful imprisonment of Richard.

Theosophical concepts can be seen in the work of Sergei Bulgakov ( 1877-1945 ), Nikolai Berdyaev ( 1874-1945 ), Leopold Ziegler ( 1881-1958 ), Valentin Tomberg ( 1901-1973 ), Auguste-Edouard Chauvet ( 1885-1955 ), Wassily Kandinsky ( 1866-1944 ), Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan ( 1888-1975 ) and Henry Corbin ( 1903-1978 ).

The one known as the marchia orientalis was to become the core territory of Austria and was given to Leopold of Babenberg in 976 after the revolt of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria.

* Bavaria is taken away from the Welfen Duke Henry the Proud and given to the Austrian Margrave Leopold IV.

Leopold, who received the mark as a reward for his fidelity to the emperor Otto II during the Bavarian rising in 976, extended its area at the expense of the Hungarians, and was succeeded in 994 by his son Henry I. Henry, who continued his father's policy, was followed in 1018 by his brother Adalbert and in 1055 by his nephew, Ernest, whose marked loyalty to the emperors Henry II and Henry III was rewarded by many tokens of favour.

The succeeding margrave, Leopold II, quarrelled with Henry III, who was unable to oust him from the mark or to prevent the succession of his son Leopold III in 1096.

His eldest son, Leopold IV, became margrave in 1136, and in 1139 received from the German king Conrad III the duchy of Bavaria, which had been forfeited by Henry the Proud.

As Henry the Proud, son-in-law and heir of Lothair and the most powerful prince in Germany, who had been passed over in the election, refused to do the same, Conrad deprived him of all his territories, giving the Duchy of Saxony to Albert the Bear and that of Bavaria to Leopold IV, Margrave of Austria.

King Conrad III had dispossessed Henry the Proud, who had been his rival for the crown in 1138, of his duchies in 1138 and 1139, handing Saxony to Albert the Bear and Bavaria to Leopold of Austria.

Other conductors who have recorded the work include Arturo Toscanini, Daniel Barenboim, Sir Georg Solti, Leonard Bernstein, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Leopold Stokowski, Eugene Ormandy, William Steinberg and André Previn, as well as leading English conductors from Sir Henry Wood and Sir Adrian Boult to Sir Simon Rattle.

Leopold Marks ' son Henry donated land to the town to be used as a cemetery.

Duke Leopold V, kneeling, receives the red-white-red banner by Emperor Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor | Henry VI, Babenberger Stammbaum, Klosterneuburg monastery, about 1490

He approved of spontaneous applause and was of the opposite opinion from Artur Schnabel, Sir Henry Wood and Leopold Stokowski, who did all they could to stamp out the practice of clapping between movements.

* Alexandre Emmanuel Henry Albert Marie Leopold, ( 1942 – 2009 ), Prince of Belgium.

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

His grandfather, Thomas Francis, founder of the Carignano line of the House of Savoy, was the son of Catherine Michelle – a daughter of Philip II of Spain – and the great-grandson of the Emperor Charles V. But of more immediate consequence to Leopold I was the fact that Eugene was the second cousin of Victor Amadeus, the Duke of Savoy, a connection that the Emperor hoped might prove useful in any future confrontation with France.

Francis was a son of the future Emperor Leopold II ( 1747 – 1792 ) and his wife Maria Luisa of Spain ( 1745 – 1792 ), daughter of Charles III of Spain.

These were lampworked by Leopold Blaschka and his son Rudolph, who never revealed the method he used to make them.

A monarch may retain his style and certain prerogatives after abdication, as did King Leopold III of Belgium, who left the throne to his son after winning a referendum which allowed him to retain a full royal household deprived him of a constitutional or representative role.

* 1951 – King Leopold III of Belgium abdicates in favor of his son, Baudouin I of Belgium.

* 1690 – Joseph, son of Emperor Leopold I, becomes King of the Romans.

* Georg Leopold von Reisswitz and his son Georg Heinrich Rudolf von Reisswitz-inventors of Kriegsspiel.

Charles III of Spain, second son of Emperor Leopold I and claimant to the Spanish throne.

The Bavarian prince would have been the lawful heir to the Spanish throne under Philip IV's will, and remained a far less threatening candidate than those directly in the Bourbon or Habsburg lines, despite the willingness of both Leopold I and Louis XIV to defer their claims onto a junior branch of their Houses: Leopold to his younger son, the Archduke Charles, and Louis to the Dauphin's younger son, Philip, the Duke of Anjou.

* January 6 – Joseph, son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, becomes King of the Romans.

* March 28 – Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, youngest son of Queen Victoria ( b. 1853 )

The second duke was Henry's son Leopold V, who succeeded him in 1177 and took part in, the crusades of 1182 and 1190.

He died in 1194, and Austria fell to one son, Frederick, and Styria to another, Leopold ; but on Frederick's death in 1198 they were again united by Duke Leopold VI, surnamed " the Glorious ".

Frederick II, Leopold VI's son by Theodora Angelina, succeeded his father as duke upon the elder man's death in 1230.