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, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg ( 1375 / 1380 – 1422 )

* 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 )

* 1566 – Isabella Clara Eugenia Spanish wife of Albert VII, Archduke of Austria ( d. 1633 )

* Albert I of Germany ( 1255 – 1308 ), King of Germany and Archduke of Austria

* Albert II of Austria ( 1298 – 1358 ), Duke of Austria

* Albert II of Germany ( 1397 – 1439 ), King of Germany, Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, Duke of Austria

In a generous act by his father, he was adopted and raised in Vienna by his childless aunt Archduchess Marie Christine of Austria and her husband Albert of Saxe-Teschen.

Albert Frederick was married in 1573 to Marie Eleonore of Cleves, a daughter of Wilhelm, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg and Archduchess Maria of Austria ( 1531 – 1581 ).

* 1463 – Archduke Albert VI of Austria ( b. 1418 )

Ultimately, Frederick prevailed in all those conflicts by outliving his opponents and sometimes inheriting their lands, as was the case with his nephew Ladislaus, from whom he gained Lower Austria in 1457, and with his brother Albert VI, whom he succeeded in Upper Austria.

The marriage of his daughter Kunigunde of Austria to Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, was another result of intrigues and deception, but must be counted as a defeat for Frederick.

In 1598, the then possessor, Philip II of Spain, bequeathed Luxembourg and the other Low Countries to his daughter the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia and her husband Albert VII, Archduke of Austria.

Albert was an heir and descendant of Elisabeth of Austria ( d. 1505 ), queen of Poland, the youngest granddaughter of Sigismund of Luxembourg, the Holy Roman Emperor.

Magdalena's maternal grandparents were Kazimierz IV Jagiellon and his wife queen Elisabeth of Austria, daughter of Albert II of Germany.

On August 26, 1943, at a meeting in Albert Speer's office, Hans Kammler suggested moving the A-4 Development Works to a proposed underground site in Austria.

* 1377 – Albert IV, Duke of Austria ( d. 1404 )

* December – Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph I of Germany invests his sons Albert I of Germany and Rudolph II of Austria as co-rulers of the duchies of Austria and Styria, thus founding the Habsburg dynasty in those territories.

* Albert VII ( 1559 – 1621 ), Archduke of Austria and governor ( 1596 – 1598 ) and Co-sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands ( modern-day Belgium and Luxembourg ) with Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia of Spain, held position ( as Co-sovereign ) 1598 – 1621

* July 13 – Archduke Albert of Austria, Governor of the Low Countries ( b. 1559 )

* May 1 – Albert I of Germany, Duke of Austria ( murdered ) ( b. 1255 )