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His father was Albert the Brave of Saxony, founder of the Albertine line of the Wettin family, his mother was Sidonie, daughter of George Podiebrad, King of Bohemia.
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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 is therefore often seen as the father of the Prussian nation, and even as indirectly responsible for the unification of Germany.
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 ).
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.
After the death of his father in 1464, Albert and Ernest ruled their lands together, but in 1485 a division was made by the Treaty of Leipzig, and Albert received the Meissen, together with some adjoining districts, and founded the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin.
Haley's father William Albert Haley was from Kentucky and played the banjo and mandolin, his mother Maude Green originally from Ulverston in England was a technically accomplished keyboardist with classical training.
Guest's paternal grandfather, Leslie, Baron Haden-Guest, was a Labour Party politician who was a convert to Judaism, and Guest's paternal grandmother's father was Colonel Albert Goldsmid, a British officer who founded the Jewish Lads ' and Girls ' Brigade and the Maccabaeans.
On the death of his father King John on 29 October 1873, the Crown Prince succeeded to the throne as King Albert.
Albert illegally took control of some imperial fiefs and then asked to marry Kunigunde ( who lived in Innsbruck, far from her father ), offering to give her the fiefs as a dowry.
( Her father, Charles Schweitzer, was the older brother of Albert Schweitzer's father, Louis Théophile.
For example, Albert Einstein's revolutionary " Annus Mirabilis " papers in the 1905 issue of Annalen der Physik were not peer-reviewed by anyone other than the journal's editor-in-chief, Max Planck ( the father of quantum theory ), and its co-editor, Wilhelm Wien.
He grew up nearby at the home of his father, Henry John Bennett, at Hopewell Cape, the shire town of Albert County, then a town of 1, 800 people.
By the 1283 Treaty of Rheinfelden his father entrusted Albert with their sole government, while Rudolph II ought to be compensated by the Further Austrian Habsburg home territories.
Her father was Prince Albert, Duke of York ( later George VI ), the second son of King George V and Queen Mary.
Some, such as George VI of the United Kingdom ( born Albert Frederick Arthur George ), may wish to make a connection between their reign and that of a previous sovereign ( in his case, his father, George V ).
He was christened Albert Edward ( after his father, and maternal grandfather Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn ) at St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, on 25 January 1842.
He chose to reign under the name Edward VII, instead of Albert Edward — the name his mother had intended for him to use, declaring that he did not wish to " undervalue the name of Albert " and diminish the status of his father with whom among royalty the name Albert should stand alone.
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