Albert III may refer to:

* Albert III, Count of Namur ( 1048 – 1102 )

* Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel ( c. 1250 – 1300 )

* Albert III, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst ( d. 1359 )

* Albert III of Austria ( 1349 – 1395 )

* Albert III, Duke of Bavaria ( 1438 – 1460 )

* Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg ( 1414 – 1486 )

* Albert, Duke of Saxony ( 1443 – 1500 ), sometimes called " Albert III "

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In 1137 Conrad III, the Hohenstaufen King of the Germans, deprived Albert's cousin and nemesis, Henry the Proud of his Saxon duchy, which was awarded to Albert if he could take it.

# REDIRECT Albert III, Duke of Saxony

Albert III () ( 27 January 1443 – 12 September 1500 ) was a Duke of Saxony.

Albert was born in Grimma as the third and youngest son ( but fifth child in order of birth ) of Frederick II the Gentle, Elector of Saxony, and Margarete of Austria, sister of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor.

Ernest, Elector of Saxony ( 1464 – 1486 ), Frederick II, Elector of Saxony ( 1428 – 1464 ) and Albert III, Duke of Saxony ( 1486 – 1500 ); Fürstenzug, Dresden, Germany

Frederick the Peaceful KG ( September 21, 1415 – August 19, 1493 ) was Duke of Austria as Frederick V from 1424, the successor of Albert II as German King as Frederick IV from 1440, and Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III from 1452.

Frederick I of Ansbach and Bayreuth ( also known as Frederick V ; or ; 8 May 1460 – 4 April 1536 ) was born at Ansbach as the eldest son of the Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony.

As the Welf duke Henry the Proud, son-in-law and heir of Lothair and the most powerful prince in Germany, who had been passed over in the election, refused to acknowledge the new king, Conrad III deprived him of all his territories, giving the Duchy of Saxony to Albert the Bear and that of Bavaria to Leopold IV, Margrave of Austria.

* Albert III, Elector of Brandenburg and Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach

* 1440: Albert I / I / III Achilles ( son of, also Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and Elector of Brandenburg )

* 1457: Albert I / I / III Achilles ( also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Elector of Brandenburg )

* Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg ( 1236 – 1279 ) second Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

* Albert I, Duke of Prussia ( 1490 – 1568 ), first Duke of Prussia

* 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

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 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 the only son of Otto, Count of Ballenstedt, and Eilika, daughter of Magnus Billung, Duke of Saxony.

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.

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 ).

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 ).

1257 – 11 October 1322, Wittenberg ), married 1273 to Albert II, Duke of Saxony and became the mother of Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg.

The definite partitioning of the Duchy of Saxony into Saxe-Lauenburg (), jointly ruled by the brothers Albert III, Eric I and John II and Saxe-Wittenberg (), ruled by Albert II took place before 20 September 1296.

Albert II received Saxe-Wittenberg around the eponymous city and Belzig.

Albert II thus became the founder of the Ascanian line of Saxe-Wittenberg.

After Albert's death at Lehnin Abbey, his sons, the elder John I and the younger Albert II, ruled together as Dukes of Saxony, with John succeeded by his three sons Albert III, Eric I and John II, until before 20 September 1296 they split Saxony into Saxe-Lauenburg and Saxe-Wittenberg, with the brothers jointly ruling the former, and Albert II ruling the latter.

* Albert ( Albrecht ) II (* 1250 – 25 August 1298 *), co-ruling Duke of Saxony with his elder brother John II ( till 1282 ), then with the sons of the latter ( till 1296 ), then as the sole duke of the partitioned branch duchy Saxe-Wittenberg, ∞ in 1273 Agnes ( aka Hagne ) (* c. 1257 – 11 October 1322 *, in Wittenberg ), daughter of King Rudolph I of Germany

* Albert of Saxe-Wittenberg ( disambiguation )

* Magnus II with the Necklace, Prince of Wolfenbüttel 1369 – 1373, claimed the Principality of Lüneburg against Albert of Saxe-Wittenberg.

The area was named as the Land of Darzing, when the co-ruling Saxon dukes Albert II and his nephews Albert III, Eric I and John II partitioned Saxony into Saxe-Lauenburg and Saxe-Wittenberg before 20 September 1296.