Albert was born at Ansbach and, having lost his father Casimir in 1527, he came under the guardianship of his uncle George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, a strong adherent of Protestantism.

Albert was born in Ansbach in Franconia as the third son of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach.

Anne was in turn the eldest daughter of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach.

He was the second and last Prussian duke of the Ansbach branch of the Hohenzollern family.

In 1792 Ansbach was annexed by the Hohenzollerns of Prussia.

In 1796 the Duke of Zweibrücken, Maximilian Joseph, the future Bavarian king Max I. Joseph, was exiled to Ansbach after Zweibrücken had been taken by the French.

At the end of the 17th century, the margraves ' palace at Ansbach was rebuilt in Baroque style.

Although all bridges were destroyed, the historical center of Ansbach was spared during World War II and it has kept its baroque character.

Ansbach was also home to the headquarters of the 1st Armored Division ( United States ) from 1972 to the early1990s.

* Ansbach was home of the astronomer Simon Marius, who observed Jupiter's moons from the castle's tower.

* Ansbach was the birthplace of the early chemist, Georg Ernst Stahl.

* Queen Caroline, consort of King George II of Great Britain was born in Ansbach in 1683.

* Ansbach was the birthplace of the pre-Linnean botanist, Georg Christian Oeder.

* John James Maximilian Oertel ( 1811 – 1882 ), born in Ansbach, was a Lutheran clergyman who later converted to Roman Catholicism, became a professor of German at Fordham University in the United States, and later edited and founded several newspapers in the United States, including one that would become the leading German-language newspaper in the county, Baltimore's Kirchenzeitung.

* Also the Bavarian Major General and War Minister Moritz Ritter von Spies ( 1805 – 1862 ) was born in Ansbach.

* Hermann Fegelein SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler's Adjutant and Adolf Hitler's brother in law was a great admirer of his birthplace, Ansbach.

* Pinchas Kohn was the last rabbi of Ansbach.

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.

George Frederick of Brandenburg-Ansbach () ( April 5, 1539, Ansbach – April 25, 1603 ) was Margrave of Ansbach and Bayreuth, as well as Regent of Prussia.

He was born in Ansbach, the third of eight sons of Margrave Frederick the Elder and his wife Sophia of Poland, daughter of Casimir IV of Poland and Elisabeth of Habsburg.

As his father then ruled as Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( from 1457 also as Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach ), he was born at the Hohenzollern residence of Ansbach in Franconia, where he spent his childhood years until in 1466 he received the call to Brandenburg as presumed heir by his uncle Elector Frederick II.

* March 1 – Caroline of Ansbach, queen of George II of Great Britain ( d. 1737 ); her birthdate was associated with Saint David's Day, for example in plate 4 of William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress

Her father, John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, was the ruler of a small German state, the Principality of Ansbach, and she belonged to a branch of the House of Hohenzollern.

Prince William Augustus ( 26 April 1721 < small >< nowiki >< nowiki ></ nowiki ></ small > – 31 October 1765 ), was a younger son of George II of Great Britain and Caroline of Ansbach, and Duke of Cumberland from 1726.

It forms a small part of the north-east of Ansbach.

In the following centuries the monastery and the adjoining village ( Onoldsbach ) grew to become the town of Ansbach ( called a town in 1221 for the first time ).

* 1777 – Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.

The town of Ansbach and the city of Osnabrück followed.

Hennenbach is a district of the town of Ansbach in Bavaria, Germany.

Centered on the town of Eichstätt, it was located in the present-day state of Bavaria, somewhat to the west of Regensburg, to the north of Neuburg an der Donau and Ingolstadt, to the south of Nuremberg, and to the southeast of Ansbach.

Heilsbronn is a town in the Ansbach district of the Mittelfranken administrative region of Franconia, in the German state of Bavaria between Nuremberg and Ansbach, in the wooded valley of the Rangau.

Since 1970, Ansbach has enlarged its municipal area by incorporating adjacent communities.

There are five separate U. S. installations: Shipton Kaserne, home to 412th Aviation Support Battalion, Katterbach Kaserne, formally the home of the 1st Infantry Division's 4th Combat Aviation Brigade, which has been replaced by the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade as of 2006, as part of the 1st Infantry Division's return to Fort Riley, Kansas ; Bismarck Kaserne, which functions as a satellite post to Katterbach, hosting their Post Exchange, Theater, Barracks, Franconia Inn, Military Police, and other support agencies, Barton Barracks, home to the USAG Ansbach and Bleidorn Barracks, which has a library and housing.

The region is nowadays mainly represented by the administrative districts of Lower Franconia ( Unterfranken, capital city Würzburg ), Middle Franconia ( Mittelfranken, capital city Ansbach ), and Upper Franconia ( Oberfranken, capital city Bayreuth ) in Bavaria.

Examples of Franconian cities founded by Frankish noblemen are Würzburg, first mentioned in the 7th century, Ansbach, first mentioned in 748, and Weissenburg, founded in the 7th century.

Upon his death Ansbach and Kulmbach were inherited by younger princes of the Brandenburg line according to the House Treaty of Gera of 1598.

He travelled through Ansbach, Amberg, Neumarkt, and Waldsassen, where he was met by representatives from the Bohemian Estates.

They were then replaced by the 4th Armored Division in 1957, which was redesignated as the 1st Armored Division in 1971 and moved to Hindenburg Kaserne in Ansbach in 1972.

Then came Napoleon's contemptuous violation of Prussian territory by marching three French corps through Ansbach ; King Frederick William's pride overcame his weakness, and on November 3 he signed with Tsar Alexander I of Russia the terms of an ultimatum to be laid before the French emperor.

It is bounded by ( from the north and clockwise ) the districts of Ansbach, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Eichstätt, Neuburg-Schrobenhausen, Aichach-Friedberg, Augsburg and Dillingen, and by the state of Baden-Württemberg ( districts of Heidenheim and Ostalbkreis ).

It is bounded by ( from the east and clockwise ) the cities of Fürth and Nuremberg, and by the districts of Roth, Ansbach, Neustadt ( Aisch )- Bad Windsheim and Erlangen-Höchstadt.

It is bounded by ( from the west and clockwise ) the districts of Würzburg, Kitzingen, Bamberg, Erlangen-Höchstadt, Fürth and Ansbach, and by the state of Baden-Württemberg ( district Main-Tauber ).

It is bounded by ( from the northeast and clockwise ) the districts of Nürnberger Land, Neumarkt, Eichstätt, Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen, Ansbach and Fürth, and the cities of Schwabach and Nuremberg.

The early years of the league were dominated by two teams, Frankfurt and Ansbach, who met each other in the first three editions of the German Bowl.

With the 1986 final, the golden era of the Ansbach Grizzlies ended and the club disappeared out of the top level all together by 1991.

The early years of the league were dominated by two teams, Frankfurt and Ansbach, who met each other in the first three editions of the German Bowl.

With the 1986 final, the golden era of the Ansbach Grizzlies ended and the club disappeared out of the top level all together by 1991.