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.

Luther for his part did not stop at the suggestion, but in order to facilitate the change made special efforts to spread his teaching among the Prussians, while Albert's brother, Margrave George of Brandenburg-Ansbach, laid the scheme before their uncle, Sigismund I the Old of Poland.

Born in Cölln on the Spree, George William was the son of John Sigismund, Margrave of Brandenburg and Anna of Prussia.

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 the son of George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and a member of the House of Hohenzollern.

George of Brandenburg-Ansbach () ( 4 March 1484 – 27 December 1543 ) was a Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the House of Hohenzollern.

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

* 1543: George Frederick I / I / I / I ( son of, also Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Duke of Brandenburg-Jägerndorf and Regent of Prussia )

* 1692: George Frederick II / II ( later Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach )

* 1553: George Frederick I / I / I / I ( also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Duke of Brandenburg-Jägerndorf and Regent of Prussia )

* 1726: George Frederick II / II ( previously Margrave of Kulmbach )

* 1541 – 1543: George I / I the Pious ( also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach )

* 1543 – 1603: George Frederick I / I / I / I ( also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and Regent of Prussia )

** 1578 – 1603: George Frederick I / I / I / I ( Regent, also Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and Duke of Brandenburg-Jägerndorf )

Secondly, he married Margravine Sabina of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 12 May 1529 – 2 November 1575 ), daughter of George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, in 1548.

* April 25 – George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( b. 1539 )

* January 8 – John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Margrave and Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia ( b. 1525 )

** George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( b. 1484 )

* April 5 – George Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( d. 1603 )

* March 4 – George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( d. 1543 )

A turning point in the town's history came in 1603 when Margrave Christian, the son of the elector, John George of Brandenburg, moved the aristocratic residence from the castle of Plassenburg above Kulmbach to Bayreuth.

His successor, the Crown Prince and later Margrave, George William, began in 1701 to establish the then independent town of St. Georgen am See ( today, the district of St. Georgen ) with its castle, the so-called Ordensschloss, a town hall, a prison and a small barracks.

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.

The Duchy of Cleves and the counties of Mark and Ravensberg, and the Dominion of Ravenstein were inherited by the Protestant Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, Margrave of Brandenburg, and Duke of Prussia Johann Sigismund of Hohenzollern.

The forces of the Holy Roman Empire and Catholic League under Marshal Tilly and Gonzalo de Córdoba defeated the Protestant forces of General Ernst von Mansfeld and Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach.

At the outbreak of the Thirty Years ' War he took the field on the Protestant side, and served under Mansfeld at Wiesloch ( 1622 ), under the Margrave of Baden at Wimpfen ( 1622 ), and with his brother William at Stadtlohn ( 1623 ).

While secular princes like the Duke of Württemberg and the Margrave of Baden-Durlach, as well as most of the Free Cities, became Protestant, the ecclesiastical territories ( including the bishoprics of Augsburg, Konstanz and the numerous Imperial abbeys ) remained Catholic, as did the territories belonging to the Habsburgs ( Further Austria ), Hohenzollerns and the Margrave of Baden-Baden.

In 1526 the Markgraf ( Margrave ) became Protestant following the actions of the German monk Martin Luther.

The bishopric was secularized during the Reformation in 1555, and was completely disbanded at the ascension of Joachim Frederick as Margrave of Brandenburg in 1598.

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

Friedrich succeeded his father as Margrave of Ansbach in 1486 and his younger brother as Margrave of Bayreuth in 1495.

# Kasimir, Margrave of Bayreuth ( 27 September 1481, Ansbach – 21 September 1527, Buda ).

# Elisabeth ( 25 March 1494, Ansbach – 31 May 1518, Pforzheim ), married in Pforzheim on 29 September 1510 to Margrave Ernest of Baden-Durlach.

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.

von Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach or Friedrich der Ältere ; 1460 – 1536 ), Margrave in Ansbach since 1486 and Bayreuth since 1495.

# Siegmund, Margrave in Bayreuth, ( 27 September 1468, Ansbach – 26 February 1495, Ansbach ).

In 1769 Margrave Charles Alexander, from the Ansbach line of Frankish Hohenzollerns, followed the childless Frederick Christian and Bayreuth was reduced to a secondary residence.

Following the abdication of the last Margrave, Charles Alexander, from the principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth on 2 December 1791 its territories became part of a Prussian province.

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.

Caroline was born on 1 March 1683 at Ansbach, the daughter of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, and his second wife, Princess Eleonore Erdmuthe of Saxe-Eisenach.

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

The orphaned Caroline and William Frederick returned to Ansbach to stay with their elder half-brother, Margrave George Frederick II.

John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach ( 18 October 1654 – 22 March 1686 ) succeeded his father Albert II as margrave of Ansbach in 1667.

From 1528-1531 he was the personal physician of Georg, Margrave of Brandenburg in Ansbach.