Saddened in spirit, and feeble in body, he undertook a journey, by slow stages, to his hereditary dominions in Switzerland.

He then returned to Austria, where he died on the 15th of July, 1291, in the seventy-third year of his age.
Albert, who resided at Vienna, succeeded his father in authority over the Austrian and Swiss provinces.

But he was a man stern, unconciliating and domineering.

The nobles hated him, and hoped to drive him back to the Swiss cantons from which his father had come.

One great occasion of discontent was, that he employed about his person, and in important posts, Swiss instead of Austrian nobles.