the empire, was too prudent to trust his fortune to the
chance of war; he listened therefore to overtures of peace, and an
accommodation was effected by arbitration. He was to retain possession
of the Austrian provinces, and to hold Moravia for five years, as an
indemnification for the expenses of the war; Wenceslaus was
acknowledged King of Bohemia, and during his minority the regency was
assigned to Otho; Rudolph, second son of the Emperor, was to espouse
the Bohemian princess Agnes; and his two daughters, Judith and
Hedwige, were affianced to the King of Bohemia and to Otho the Less,
brother of the Margrave. In consequence of this agreement Rudolph
withdrew from Bohemia, and in 1280 returned to Vienna in triumph.
Being delivered from the most powerful of his enemies, and relieved
from all further apprehensions by the weak and distracted state of
Bohemia, he directed his principal aim to secure the Austrian
territories for his own family. With this view he compelled Henry of
Bavaria, under the pretext of punishing his recent connection with
Ottocar, to cede Austria above the Ems, and to accept in return the
districts of Scharding, Neuburg, and Freistadt as the dowry of his
wife.

But, though master of all the Austrian territories, he experienced
great difficulties in transferring them to his family. Some claimants
of the Bamberg line still existed: Agnes, daughter of Gertrude and
wife of Ulric of Heunburg, and the two sons of Constantia by Albert of
Misnia. Those provinces were likewise coveted by Louis, Count Palatine
of the Rhine, and by his brother Henry of Bavaria, as having belonged
to their ancestors, and by Meinhard of Tyrol, from whom he had derived
such essential assistance, in virtue of his marriage with Elizabeth,
widow of the emperor Conrad and sister of the Dukes of Bavaria. The
Misnian princes, however, having received a compensation from Ottocar,
withheld their pretensions, and Rudolph purchased the acquiescence of
Agnes and her husband by a sum of money and a small cession of
territory. He likewise eluded the demands of the Bavarian princes and
of Meinhard by referring them to the decision of the German diet, In
the mean time he conciliated, by acts of kindness and liberality, his
new subjects, and obtained from the states of the duchy a declaration
that all the lands possessed by Frederick the Warlike belonged to the
Emperor, or to whomsoever he should grant them as fiefs, saving the
rights of those