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* Albert I, Duke of Prussia ( 1490 – 1568 ), first Duke of Prussia
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* Albert I of Brandenburg ( c. 1100 – 1170 ), first Margrave of Brandenburg
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Albert the Bear (; c. 1100 – 18 November 1170 ) was the first Margrave of Brandenburg ( as Albert I ) from 1157 to his death and was briefly Duke of Saxony between 1138 and 1142.
Albert was a loyal vassal of his relation, Lothar I, Duke of Saxony, from whom, about 1123, he received the Margraviate of Lusatia, to the east ; after Lothar became King of the Germans, he accompanied him on a disastrous expedition to Bohemia in 1126, when he suffered a short imprisonment.
Albert and Duke
* Albert II of Austria ( 1298 – 1358 ), Duke of Austria
* Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg ( 1318 – 1379 ), Duke of Mecklenburg
* Albert II, Duke of Bavaria-Straubing ( 1368 – 1397 ), Duke of Bavaria-Straubing
* Albert II of Germany ( 1397 – 1439 ), King of Germany, Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, Duke of Austria
* Albert III, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg ( 1375 / 1380 – 1422 )
* Albert III, Duke of Bavaria ( 1438 – 1460 )
* Albert, Duke of Saxony ( 1443 – 1500 ), sometimes called " Albert III "
Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, then took command of the troops of the league, and after Albert had been placed under the imperial ban in December 1553 he was defeated by Duke Henry, and compelled to flee to France.
Albert was the only son of Otto, Count of Ballenstedt, and Eilika, daughter of Magnus Billung, Duke of Saxony.
Because Albert was a member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, it had been hoped that his election as Grand Master would reverse the decline of the Teutonic Knights since 1410 ; Duke Frederick of Saxony of the House of Wettin had been elected for the same reason.
Albert's titles ( on his proclamation of 1561 in Königsberg ) were: Albert the Elder, Margrave of Brandenburg in Prussia, Stettin in Pomerania, Duke of the Kashubians, and Wends, Burgrave of Nuremberg, and Count of Rügen etc ..
Albert was chosen as his successor early in 1511 in the hope that his relationship to his maternal uncle, Sigismund I the Old, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland, would facilitate a settlement of the disputes over eastern Prussia, which had been held by the Order under Polish suzerainty since the Second Peace of Thorn ( 1466 ).
# REDIRECT Albert III, Duke of Saxony
He was elected Grand Duke of Lithuania on the death of his father ( 1492 ), and King of Poland on the death of his brother John I Albert ( 1501 ).
Albert and Prussia
Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.
Prussian Homage ( painting ) | Prussian Homage: Albert and his brothers receive the Duchy of Prussia as a fief from Polish King Sigismund I the Old, 1525.
After some delay Sigismund assented to the offer, with the provision that Prussia should be treated as a Polish fiefdom ; and after this arrangement had been confirmed by a treaty concluded at Kraków, Albert pledged a personal oath to Sigismund I and was invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs on 10 February 1525.
Summoned before the imperial court of justice, Albert refused to appear and was proscribed, while the Order elected a new Grand Master, Walter von Cronberg, who received Prussia as a fief at the imperial Diet of Augsburg.
Albert also paid for the printing of the Astronomical " Prutenic Tables " compiled by Erasmus Reinhold and the first maps of Prussia by Caspar Hennenberger.
Albert of Prussia, Painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder, dated 1528
Although Albert has received relatively little recognition in German history, his dissolution of the Teutonic State caused the founding of the Duchy of Prussia ( and also the Hohenzollern dynasty ), which would eventually become arguably the most powerful German state and instrumental in uniting the whole of Germany.
* 1929 – Prince Albert Wilhelm Heinrich of Prussia ( b. 1862 )
# REDIRECT Albert, Duke in Prussia
Albert Frederick (, ; 7 May 1553 Königsberg – 28 August 1618 Fischhausen ) was duke of Prussia from 1568 until his death.
He was a son of Albert of Prussia and Anna Marie of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
Albert became Duke of Prussia after paying feudal homage to the King of Poland, Zygmunt August ( Ducal Prussia was a fief of Poland ), on July 19, 1569 in Lublin.
As the great grandson of the Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellon, and as a Duke in Prussia who was fluent in Polish, Albert Frederick was seriously considered for a time as a possible candidate for the Polish throne.
The latter became Duke of Prussia after Albert Frederick's death in 1618.
# Albert Frederick of Prussia ( 1 June – 8 October 1580 ).
* Albert of Prussia, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and the first duke of Prussia.
When the Austro-Prussian War broke out in 1866, Albert then Crown Prince ( German: Kronprinz ), took up the command of the Saxon forces opposing the Prussian Army of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia.
# Albert of Prussia ( 17 May 1490, Ansbach – 20 March 1568, Castle Tapiau ), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and later first Duke of Prussia.
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