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	Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg
		Albert III (in German Albrecht Achilles), (1414-1486), Margrave of Brandenburg, given the cognomen Achilles because of his knightly qualities, was the third son of Frederick I of Brandenburg of Hohenzollern, elector of Brandenburg, later Burgrave of Nuremberg, and was born at Tangermunde[?] on the 9th of November 1414.
		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, the elector Frederick II.
		Albert was a man of relentless energy and boundless ambition, who by reason of his physical and intellectual qualities was one of the most prominent princes of the 15th century.
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	Albert I of Brandenburg - LoveToKnow 1911
		In 1128 his brother-in-law, Henry II., margrave of the Saxon north mark, died, and Albert, disappointed at not receiving this fief, attacked Udo, the succeeding margrave, and was consequently deprived of Lusatia by Lothair.
		Taking the title margrave of Brandenburg, he pressed the warfare against the Wends, extended the area of his mark, did much for the spread of Christianity and civilization therein, and so became the founder of the margraviate of Brandenburg.
		It was possibly at this time that Albert was made arch-chamberlain of the Empire, an office which afterwards gave the margraves of Brandenburg the rights of an elector.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Albert_I_of_Brandenburg (450 words)

	Albert I of Brandenburg
		In 1128 his brother-in-law, Henry II, margrave of the Saxon northern march, died, and Albert, disappointed at not receiving this fief, attacked Udo, the succeeding margrave, and was consequently deprived of Lusatia by Lothar.
		For three years he was occupied in campaigns against the Wends, and by an arrangement made with Pribislav, duke of Brandenburg, Albert secured this district when the duke died in 1150.
		A feud with Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony, was followed, in 1158, by a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and in 1162 Albert accompanied the emperor Frederick I to Italy, and distinguished himself at the storming of Milan.
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	Albert of Brandenburg - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Albert of Brandenburg (1490-1545), archbishop of Magdeburg and archbishop and elector of Mainz, who was the first German ruler to receive Jesuits...
		Albert I of Brandenburg (1100?-1170), first margrave of the Brandenburg region in Germany and founder of the Ascanian dynasty of margraves who...
		Albert III (1414-1486), elector of Brandenburg (1470-86), born in Tangermünde, Germany.
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	Titles of European hereditary rulers
		In 1618, John-Sigismund, Elector and Margrave of Brandenburg, inherited the Duchy of Prussia.
		< Albert "the Achilles" (+1486), Margrave of Ansbach 1440, of Bayreuth 1457; Elector-Margrave of Brandenburg 1470 >
		< Frederick-William (+1688), Elector-Margrave of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia 1640 >
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Albert III, Elector of Brandenburg
		Albert III (German Albrecht Achilles), (9 November 1414, Tangermunde–11 March 1486, Frankfurt am Main), Margrave of Brandenburg, given the cognomen Achilles because of his knightly qualities, was the third son of Frederick I of Brandenburg of Hohenzollern, elector of Brandenburg, later Burgrave of Nuremberg.
		Margarete died 24 October 1457 and in 1458 Albert married Anna of Saxony, daughter of Frederick II, Elector of Saxony and Margarete of Austria.
		Siegmund, Margrave of Brandenburg in Bayreuth, (27 September 1468, Ansbach–26 February 1495, Ansbach).
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	AllRefer.com - Albert the Bear (German History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Calling himself margrave of Brandenburg as early as 1136 or 1142, he used the North March as a base for campaigns against the Wends, a pagan Slavic people.
		Invested (1138) with Saxony by Conrad III, Lothair's successor, he was expelled from the dukedom by Henry the Proud, whom Conrad had deprived of the duchy.
		Albert later made peace (1142) with Henry the Lion, son of Henry the Proud.
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	New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. I: Aachen - Basilians
		Albert, margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, last grand master of the Teutonic order, first duke of Prussia, founder of the Prussian national Church, was born at Ansbach (25 m.
		He was the third son of the Margrave Frederick the Elder of Brandenburg-Ansbach, received a knightly education at various courts, and was made a canon of the Cologne Cathedral.
		Albert recommended Luther’s Postilla as pattern for the preaching of the Gospel and caused a large number of copies to be distributed among the ministers.
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	Electorate of Brandenburg 1356-1701 (Germany)
		The lands extending eastward from the Elbe to the Vistula, once inhabited by Germans, were invaded by Slavic tribes who, during the sixth century of the Christian era, pushed their way as far as the Elbe and the Saale in Thuringia.
		Frederick III, Prince Elector (Kurfürst) of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, proclaimed himself King of Prussia in 1701, with the acceptance of the Emperor and other German powers, partly in exchange for his support in the forthcoming War of the Spanish Succession.
		For example flags for Brandenburg are present even in the beginning of the 19th century, when all its flags were replaced since 1707 with the Prussian ones.
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	Universities - LoveToKnow 1911
		The electorates of Wittenberg and Brandenburg were now the only two considerable German territories which did not possess a studium generale, and the university founded at Wittenberg by Maximilian I. (6th July 1502) is notable as the first established in.
		The Lutheran university of Konigsberg was founded 17th August 1544 by Albert III., margrave of Brandenburg, and the first duke of Prussia, and his wife Dorothea, a Danish princess.
		The archbishopric of the latter city having passed into the possession of Brandenburg in 1680 was changed into a dukedom, and the city itself was selected as the ducal residence.
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	Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Friedrich, Margrave of Ansbach and Bayreuth, known as Friedrich I or Friedrich V (8 May 1460-4 April 1536) was born at Ansbach, the eldest son of the Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg by his second wife Anna, daughter of the 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, Ofen an der Ruhr).
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	Brandenburg (city) - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Brandenburg (city), city in north-east Germany, in Brandenburg state, on the Havel River near Berlin.
		Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg from 1640 to 1688, quickly rehabilitated Berlin.
		Brandenburg Gate (German, Brandenburger Tor), an 18th-century city gateway in the historic centre of the German capital, Berlin.
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	Welcome to AlbertEnergy
		Born as Albert Lawrence Einstein, he later changed his surname from Einstein to avoid confusion with the famous scientist.
		Albert Hall is prominently featured in the climax of Alfred Hitchcock's 1934 film “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” It is also referenced in the Beatles’ song “A Day in the Life” (“now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall”).
		Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre Grimaldi is the only son of Rainier III and his American wife, the film star Grace Kelly.
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	End of Europe's Middle Ages - Holy Roman Empire
		Although he was unable to protect his empire's frontiers from Turkish invaders or to deal with religious dissension from the Hussites within his kingdom, Sigismund was instrumental in resolving the Great Schism in 1414 at the Council of Constance.
		In 1440, the Electors chose another Habsburg, Frederick III (1415-1493), who was the last emperor to be crowned at Rome by the pope.
		During a long and relatively uneventful reign, Frederick III established a dynastic policy that was aimed at creating a network of marriage alliances across Europe.
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	Courtly Lives - Electors of Saxony - Albertine Branch
		Thimo's son, Conrad, was the Margrave of Meissen circa 1127.
		Johann Georg I married (2) in 1607 to Magdalen Sybilla (1587-1659), daughter of Albert Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia.
		Johann George III married Anne Sophia of Denmark (1647-1717) in 1665.
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	PageP.html
		The duchies of Pommern-Stettin and Pommern-Wolgast were represented by Kurbrandenburg (Electoral Brandenburg) in the Protestant corpus at the Peace of Wesphalia (1648)...
		John III Hohenzollern's brother, Frederick, became Frederick IV and since no one was able to redeem Brandenburg from the Hohenzollerns so Frederick VI continued his rule as Frederick I, Elector and Margrave of Brandenburg...
		Frederick III [Hohenzollern] had married three times: (1) Elizabeth Henrietta of Hesse-Kassl; (2) in [1684) Sophia Charolotte, dau of the Elector of Hanover Ernest Augustus and Sophia, the grandau.
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	Albert the Bear — FactMonster.com
		Invested (1138) with Saxony by Conrad III, Lothair's successor, he was expelled from the dukedom by
		Brandenburg, city, Germany - Brandenburg, city (1994 pop.
		89,200), Brandenburg, E Germany, a port on the Havel River.
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	mecklenburg1
		Beatrix of Brandenburg (d 1314, dau of Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg)
		(1432) Dorothea of Brandenburg (b 1420, d 19.01.1491, dau of Frederick of Nurnberg, Elector of Brandenburg)
		(1524) Anna of Brandenburg (b 1507, d 19.06.1567, dau of Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg)
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	Columbia Encyclopedia- Albert the Bear - AOL Research & Learn
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	This Day in History: November 9......
		● 1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
		● 1921 - Albert Einstein awarded Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with the photoelectric effect.
		● 1414 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (d.
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	Albert I Biography - Biography.com
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		The first margrave of Brandenburg (1150) and founder of the House of Ascania which ruled in Brandenburg for 200 years.
		In 1134, in return for service in Italy, he was invested by Emperor Lothar III with extensive lands between the Elbe and the Oder.
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