* 1770 – Frederick William III of Prussia ( d. 1840 )

However, during the schism between Pope Alexander III and Antipope Victor IV, Absalon stayed loyal to Valdemar even as he joined the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barberossa in supporting Victor IV.

The Seven Sorrows Polyptych, commissioned by Frederick III of Saxony in 1496, was executed by Dürer and his assistants c. 1500.

With few chances to take part in the politics of the Electorate of Saxony or receive any land from his older brother Frederick Augustus III, Anton lived under the shadows.

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.

After escaping from the hands of Kunz von Kaufungen, who had abducted him together with his brother Ernest, he spent some time at the court of the emperor Frederick III in Vienna.

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

He was at once appointed by Elector Frederick III " juge et directeur de colonie de Berlin.

After his death he was succeeded by his son Frederick III who was only emperor for 99 days.

In 1535 Christian II, the deposed monarch, tried to regain power from King Christian III who just succeeded his father Frederick I.

* 1670 – King Frederick III of Denmark ( b. 1609 )

* Frederick V of Austria ( 1415 – 1493 ), or Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor

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.

Detail of " Aeneas Piccolomini Introduces Eleonora of Portugal to Frederick III " by Pinturicchio ( 1454 – 1513 )

In 1440 he was elected German king as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III by Pope Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta Eleanor, daughter of King Edward of Portugal, whose dowry helped him to alleviate his debts and cement his power.

Frederick III and Eleanor of Portugal.

At the age of 77, Frederick III died at Linz when the amputation of his left leg caused him to bleed to death.

" The Court of Emperor Frederick III ".

id: Frederick III, Kaisar Romawi Suci

* Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg ( c. 1333 – 1398 ), German noble

A century later, in 1317, Frederick IV, Burgrave of Nuremberg, added the head and shoulders of a hound as a crest.

* before 1171 – c. 1200: Frederick III / I ( son of, also Burgrave of Nuremberg )

Count Frederick III of Zollern was a loyal retainer of the Holy Roman Emperors Frederick Barbarossa and Henry VI, and around 1185 he married Sophia of Raabs, the daughter of Conrad II, Burgrave of Nuremberg.

After the death of Conrad II, often referred to as Kurt II who left no male heirs, Frederick III was granted the burgraviate of Nuremberg in 1192 as Burgrave Frederick I of Nuremberg-Zollern.

1200 ), also Burgrave of Nuremberg ( as Frederick I ) from 1191

* Frederick IV ( 1204 – 1251 / 1255 ), also Burgrave of Nuremberg ( as Frederick II ) until 1218

* August 14 – Frederick III, Burgrave of Nuremberg ( b. c. 1220 )

He was married in Amberg on 27 June 1374 to Elisabeth of Nuremberg, daughter of Burgrave Frederick V of Hohenzollern and Elisabeth of Meissen.

Frederick (; September 21, 1371 in Nuremberg – September 20, 1440 ) was Burgrave of Nuremberg as Frederick VI and Elector of Brandenburg as Frederick I.

He was a son of Burgrave Frederick V of Nuremberg and Elisabeth of Meissen, and was the first member of the House of Hohenzollern to rule the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

As early as 1361 Emperor Charles IV had conferred on Burgrave Frederick V the right to mint coins for the towns of Bayreuth and Kulmbach.

* Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg ( 1371 – 1440 ), also known as Frederick VI, Burgrave of Nuremberg

* Frederick IV, Burgrave of Nuremberg ( 1287 – 1332 )

* Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg ( died 1398 )

* Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg ( 1371 – 1440 ), also Burgrave of Nuremberg ( as Frederick VI )

Her maternal grandparents were Rupert of Germany and Elisabeth of Nuremberg, daughter of Burgrave Frederick V of Nuremberg and Elisabeth of Meissen.

* The older brother, Frederick IV, received the county of Zollern and burgraviate of Nuremberg in 1200 from his father, thereby founding the Swabian branch of the House of Hohenzollerns.

* The younger brother, Conrad III, received the burgraviate of Nuremberg from his older brother Frederick IV in 1218, thereby founding the Franconian branch of the House of Hohenzollern.

Count Frederick III ( c. 1139 – c. 1200 ) accompanied Emperor Frederick I Barbrarossa against Henry the Lion in 1180 and through his marriage achieved the enfeoffment with the Burgraviate of Nuremberg by Emperor Henry VI of Hohenstaufen in 1191.

* 1274 – November – The diet at Nuremberg orders that all crown estates seized since the death of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor be restored to Rudolph I of Germany ; almost all European rulers agree, with the notable exception of King Otakar II of Bohemia, who had benefited greatly by conquering or otherwise coming into possession of many of those lands.

21 June 1313 – 2 July 1346, Meißen ), married at Nuremberg 1 July 1329 Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen ( d. 1349 )

Also, Sigismund granted control of the Margraviate of Brandenburg ( which he had received back after Jobst's death ) to Frederick I of Hohenzollern, burgrave of Nuremberg ( 1415 ).

His attempts at the diet of Nuremberg in 1422 to raise a mercenary army were foiled by the resistance of the towns ; and in 1424 the electors, among whom was Sigismund's former ally, Frederick I of Hohenzollern, sought to strengthen their own authority at the expense of the king.