* Albert I of Brandenburg ( c. 1100 – 1170 ), first Margrave of Brandenburg

* Albert II, Margrave of Meissen ( 1240 – 1314 ), Margrave of Meissen

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

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

Albert Alcibiades () ( 28 March 1522 – 8 January 1557 ) was a Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, also known as Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

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

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In 1237 and 1244 two towns, Cölln and Berlin were founded during the rule of Otto and Johann, grandsons of Margrave Albert the Bear, ( later they were united into one city, Berlin ).

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 )

In Kruszwica on 6 January 1148 Judith married Otto, eldest son of Albert the Bear, the first Margrave of Brandenburg.

After the death of Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia in 1618, his son-in-law John Sigismund, Margrave of Brandenburg, inherited the duchy, including the lake-region ( later Masuria ), combining the two territories under a single dynasty and forming Brandenburg-Prussia.

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

To maintain papal claims to Tuscany, Honorius appointed Albert, a papal marquis, to rule in the pope ’ s name in opposition to the imperial Margrave of Tuscany, Conrad von Scheiern.

A member of the House of Hohenzollern, Wilhelm was the son of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, the brother of Albert, Duke of Prussia, and the grandson of Albert III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg and Casimir IV Jagiellon.

* January 8 – Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (" Albert the Warlike "), Prince of Bayreuth ( b. 1522 )

* August 13 – First Margrave War: Brandenburg Margrave Albrecht Achilles takes Lichtenau Fortress from Nuremberg.

At the end of the 15th century, Margrave Albrecht Achilles and Kurfürstin ( Electress ) Anna completed Neustadt as a stronghold.

John the Alchemist renounced his rights in 1457, whereupon Kulmbach ( Bayreuth ) passed to his brother, Albert Achilles, the Margrave of Brandenburg.

* 1457: Albert I Achilles ( also Margrave of Brandenburg from 1470 )

* George Frederick ( 1539 – 1603 ), who became Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Regent of the Duchy of Prussia.

During her marriage, she bore her husband two sons, Otto ( who later succeeded his father as Margrave of Brandenburg ) in 1149, and Henry ( who inherited the Counties of Tangermünde and Gardelegen ) in 1150.

:: Meanwhile, the noble Margrave Hodo, having collected his army attacked Mieszko, who has been faithfully paying tribute to the Emperor ( for the lands ) up the Warta river.

His baptismal name was Frederick of Lorraine (), and he was a younger brother of Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine, who, as Margrave of Tuscany ( by his marriage to Beatrice of Bar, widow of Boniface III of Tuscany ), played a prominent part in the politics of the period.

He was chosen by the senatrix Marozia, who had gained control of Rome via the domination of her husband Guy, Margrave of Tuscany, and who had ordered the imprisonment and death of Leo ’ s predecessor, Pope John X.

In 1388 Jobst became Margrave of Brandenburg, given in pawn by his cousin Sigismund, son of Charles IV, who focused on the Kingdom of Hungary.

In 1280 he again suffered the invasion of the Duke Henry V the Fat of Legnica, who was supported by the Margrave of Brandenburg, who could resist with unusual difficulty.

In 1470, Albert, who had inherited Bayreuth on the death of his brother John in 1464, became Margrave of Brandenburg, owing to the abdication of his remaining brother, Elector Frederick II.

As 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 do the same, Conrad 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.

In particular, Henry II had strong connections to Margrave Gunther of Merseburg, Count Egbert the One-Eyed, and Dietrich I of Wettin, who were all displeased with Otto II's lack of adherence to Saxon tradition.

Other candidates were Prince Siegfried I of Anhalt and Margrave Frederick I of Meissen ( 1257 – 1323 ), a young grandson of the excommunicated Emperor Frederick II, who however did not yet even have a principality of his own as his father still lived.

Caroline and her only full sibling, her younger brother Margrave William Frederick, left Ansbach with their mother, who returned to her native Eisenach.

The first known member of the house was Margrave Adalbert of Mainz, known only as father of Oberto I, Count palatine of Italy, who died around 975.

He approached the Margrave Boniface III of Tuscany for help, and Boniface, who did not like the emperor, was easily convinced to help anyone who would disrupt Henry's authority.

In 1039 Carinthia was inherited by Emperor Henry III himself, who finally split off the Carniolian march the next year and also granted it to Margrave Poppo of Istria.

Some Zähringer titles in Germany were retained by the descendants of Margrave Hermann I of Baden, who was the elder son of duke Berthold II of Carinthia.

The current holder of the title Margrave of Baden, Duke of Zähringen is Maximilian, Margrave of Baden ( b. 1933 ), a grandson of the last chancellor of the German Empire, Prince Max von Baden, who seems to have revived the Zähringen title after it apparently had not been in official usage since the death of Berthold V. Another branch were the Dukes of Teck, descendants of Duke Conrad's son Adalbert, whose line became extinct in 1439.

Despite his Protestant creed, Albert was greatly aided by his elder brother George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, who had already earlier established Protestant religion in his territories of Franconia and Upper Silesia.