This grandeur, instead of satisfying the Austrian princes, did but increase their ambition.
The Austrian territories, though widely scattered, were declared, both by family compact and by imperial decree, to be indivisible.

Albert had a brother, Leopold, two years younger than himself, of exceedingly restless and ambitious spirit, while Albert was inactive, and a lover of ease and repose.

Leopold was sent to Switzerland, and intrusted with the administration of those provinces.

But his imperious spirit so dominated over his elder but pliant brother, that he extorted from him a compact, by which the realm was divided, Albert remaining in possession of the Austrian provinces of the Danube, and Leopold having exclusive dominion over those in Switzerland; while the magnificent new acquisition, the Tyrol, lying between the two countries, bounding Switzerland on the east, and Austria on the west, was shared between them.
Nothing can more clearly show the moderate qualities of Albert than that he should have assented to such a plan.

He did, however, with easy good nature, assent to it, and the two brothers applied to the Emperor Charles to ratify the division by his imperial sanction.