The Babenberg family colors developed to the coat of arms of their Austrian possessions. After the dynasty had become extinct with Frederick’s death at the 1246 Battle of the Leitha River, they were adopted by his Přemyslid successor King Ottokar II of Bohemia. Upon the 1278 Battle on the Marchfeld the colors were assumed by the victorious House of Habsburg and gradually became the coat of arms of the dynasty’s Hereditary Lands within the Habsburg Monarchy.
