However, Albert inherited the Margraviate of Brandenburg from its last Wendish ruler, Pribislav, in 1157, and became the first Ascanian margrave.

* June 11 – Albert I of Brandenburg, also called, The Bear ( Ger: Albrecht der Bär ), becomes the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany and the first Margrave.

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.

The later Upper Lusatian region of the Milceni lands up to the Silesian border at the Kwisa river at first was part of the Margraviate of Meissen under Margrave Eckard I.

As part of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, the settlement was first mentioned as a town in 1233.

After rebuilding the town, Eberswalde became the first industrial town of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, with huge metallurgy capacities.

His descendant Albert the Bear, first ruler of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, established a Benedictine monastery at the site and was buried at the crypt of the abbey church in 1070.

Albert was a loyal vassal of his relation, Lothar I, Duke of Saxony, from whom, about 1123, he received the Margraviate of Lusatia, to the east ; after Lothar became King of the Germans, he accompanied him on a disastrous expedition to Bohemia in 1126, when he suffered a short imprisonment.

Arnulf was, according to most sources, the illegitimate son of Carloman, King of Bavaria, and his concubine Liutswind, perhaps of Carantanian origin, and possibly the sister of Ernst, Count of the Bavarian Nordgau Margraviate in the area of the Upper Palatinate, or perhaps the burgrave of Passau, as some sources say.

The alliance was put in practice when joint forces organized an attack against Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1326.

It was a state of the Holy Roman Empire for some time, probably starting at 1161 / 1165, but never managed to gain control over a significant territory, being overshadowed by the Margraviate of Brandenburg, which was originally seated in the same city.

His father, 63 when his son was born, was an eminent barber-surgeon who served to the court of Saxe-Weissenfels and the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

As early as 1488, when his father was in East Frisia fighting on behalf of the emperor, George was regent of the ducal possessions, which included the Margraviate of Meissen with the cities of Dresden and Leipzig.

The short-lived Margraviate of Brandenburg-Küstrin was set up, against the Hohenzollern house laws on succession, as a secundogeniture fief of the House of Hohenzollern, a typical German institution.

The Margraviate of Brandenburg-Küstrin was absorbed in 1571 into the Margraviate and Electorate of Brandenburg.

John George of Brandenburg () ( 11 September 1525 – 8 January 1598 ) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg ( 1571 – 1598 ) and a Duke of Prussia.

Joachim III Frederick () ( 27 January 1546 – 18 July 1608 ), of the House of Hohenzollern, was Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from 1598 until his death.

John Sigismund () ( 8 November 1572 – 23 December 1619 ) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from the House of Hohenzollern.

Joachim I Nestor ( 21 February 1484 – 11 July 1535 ) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg ( 1499 – 1535 ).

Secondly the Duchy of Crossen was inherited by Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1476 and, with the renunciation by King Ferdinand I and estates of Bohemia in 1538, it became an integral part of Brandenburg.

Humboldt was born in Potsdam, Margraviate of Brandenburg, and died in Tegel, Province of Brandenburg.

Albert III () ( 9 November 1414 – 11 March 1486 ), often known simply as Albert Achilles ( Albrecht Achilles ), was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

Frederick II of Brandenburg () ( 19 November 1413 – 10 February 1471 ), nicknamed " the Iron " ( der Eiserne ) and sometimes " Irontooth " ( Eisenzahn ), was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg from 1440 until his abdication in 1470, and was a member of the House of Hohenzollern.

The Margraviate of Meissen was founded in 968 as well, with the city as the capital of the Margraves of Meissen.

Shepheard was from the Margraviate of Brandenburg, and the prospect of Tortola coming under Brandenburger control did not sit well in Westminster.

The republic was founded in 1115, when the Florentine people rebelled against the Margraviate of Tuscany upon Margravine Matilda's death.

The towns build on his behalf were granted Magdeburg Law and settled predominantly by people from the western Margraviate of Brandenburg, while the towns founded in the North ( most on behalf of the Rugian princes and Wartislaw III of Pomerania-Demmin were granted Lübeck Law and were settled predominantly by people from Lower Saxony.

Instead, Albert's secularization of the Prussian territories of the Order eventually led to the inheritance of the Duchy of Prussia by the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

Brno (; ; ;, Brin ) by population and area is the second largest city in the Czech Republic, the largest Moravian city, and the historical capital city of the Margraviate of Moravia.

In 1462 Cottbus was acquired by the Margraviate of Brandenburg ; in 1701 the city became part of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Furthermore, he seized the Margraviate of Meissen as an imperial fief, since it had been literally ownerless after the extinction of a collateral line of the House of Wettin and had been occupied by a son of Albert the Degenerate.

Wenceslaus II of Bohemia was not thrilled by the growing power of the emperor on his northern border, especially since Adolf had promised to give him the Margraviate of Meissen.

As a small Sorbian village named Gorelic in the region of Upper Lusatia in the March of Lusatia of the Holy Roman Empire, it was temporarily conquered and held by the Kingdom of Poland during Bolesław I Chrobry's invasion of Lusatia between 1002 and 1031, after which the region fell back to the March of Lusatia under the counts of the Margraviate of Meissen.

After this point Gustavus Adolphus was the effective ruler of the country, and even though the rights of succession to Pomerania, held by George William, Elector of Brandenburg due to the Treaty of Grimnitz, were recognised, the Swedish king still demanded that the Margraviate of Brandenburg break with Emperor Ferdinand II.

In the 10th century, Breisgau was a county within the duchy of Swabia, ruled by the Zähringer family, who by the 12th century detached themselves from Swabia, establishing the Margraviate of Baden.

* Brandenburg-Prussia, a state created by the personal union of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg

Since the beginning of his sole rule, Bolesław established contacts with the Margraviate of Brandenburg, ruled by the House of Ascania ; with this, followed the policy of his brother Przemysł I, who even betrothed his eldest daughter Constance with Conrad, son of Margrave John I.

The unprofitable enterprise was also hampered by tolls on the Oder imposed by the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

Within the Margraviate of Brandenburg, on the land occupied by nowadays Charlottenburg there were three settlements in the late Middle Ages: the farmsteads Lietzow ( pronounced leat-tsow ) south of the Spree and Casow ( pr.

When Eckard I was murdered on 30 April 1002 in Pöhlde, Polish duke Boleslaw I, who had supported Eckard's candidature, took over the Margraviate of Meissen and March Lusatia ( Lower Lusatia ), lands only recently conquered by Germans and still inhabited mostly by Slavs, probably with approval from Eckard's family.

They had gained a foothold east of the river by 1242 and in 1252 the Margraviate of Brandenburg and the Archbishopric of Magdeburg purchased the Lubusz Land.

At that point, the County of Toulouse, the Duchy of Narbonne, and the Margraviate of Provence passed to the Crown of France, by the terms of the Treaty of Meaux, 1229.

Wesel was inherited by the Hohenzollerns of the Margraviate of Brandenburg in 1609 but they were unable to take control of Wesel until the Treaty of Nijmegen in 1678.

In the 13th century Drawsko was a fortress of Przemysł I of Greater Poland, but after his death under questionable circumstances the settlement was inherited by the Ascanian Margraviate of Brandenburg.