Rudolph of Hoheneck's tenure as Archbishop of Salzburg was marked by persistent conflict with the Habsburgs — Rudolf I of Habsburg, freshly empowered after defeating Ottokar II of Bohemia at the Battle on the Marchfeld in 1278, pressed aggressively into Austrian territories, and the archbishopric was not insulated from that pressure. These deniers were struck during a period when the Salzburg mint's output served as much a political assertion of ecclesiastical independence as a practical monetary function.
Rudolph of Hoheneck's tenure as Archbishop of Salzburg was marked by persistent conflict with the Habsburgs — Rudolf I of Habsburg, freshly empowered after defeating Ottokar II of Bohemia at the Battle on the Marchfeld in 1278, pressed aggressively into Austrian territories, and the archbishopric was not insulated from that pressure. These deniers were struck during a period when the Salzburg mint's output served as much a political assertion of ecclesiastical independence as a practical monetary function.