murder. A ransom of 35,000 kilograms of silver was paid to release Richard. Leopold demanded that Richard's niece, Eleanor, marry his son Frederick. Due to Leopold's death, this marriage never took place. Leopold's share of the ransom became the foundation for the mint in Vienna, and was used to build new city walls for Vienna, as well as to found the towns of Wiener Neustadt and Friedberg in Styria. The duke was excommunicated by Pope Celestine III for having taken a fellow crusader prisoner. To receive absolution, Leopold prepared for another crusade, but this plan failed. In 1194, his foot was crushed when his horse fell on him at a tournament in Graz. Though advised by his surgeons to have the foot amputated, no one admitted to being able to do it. He ordered his servants to chop his foot off with an axe, which they succeeded in doing after three swings. He succumbed to gangrene. As a result of deathbed promises to make restitution given to the hastily-summoned Archbishop Adalbert of Salzburg, he was reconciled and received a Christian burial at Heiligenkreuz Abbey. Marriage and children At Pentecost 1174, Leopold married Helena (1158–1199), a daughter of late King Géza II of Hungary. By her, Leopold had at least two children: Frederick I ( – 1198), who succeeded his father as Duke of Austria Leopold VI (1176–1230), succeeded his father as Duke of Styria (inconsistent with the Georgenberg Pact) and became Duke of Austria upon his brother's death in 1198. Ancestry See also List of rulers of Austria References Citations Bibliography External links Leopold V., Herzog at AEIOU Leopold V of Austria (Babenberg) Leopold V of Austria (Babenberg) 12th-century dukes of Austria Leopold 5 Leopold 5 Christians of the Third Crusade Leopold 5 Deaths by horse-riding accident in Austria Deaths from gangrene Burials at Heiligenkreuz Abbey