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| | Albert of Prussia |
 | | The duke was consequently obliged to consent to a condemnation of the teaching of Osiander, and the climax came in 1566 when the estates appealed to Sigismund II,[Albrecht von Brandenburg- Ansbach- Prussia's cousin, the son of Sigismund I and Elisabeth Habsburg,Grand Duke of Lithuania and] king of Poland, who sent a commission to Koenigsberg. |
 | | Born at Ansbach on the 16th of May 1490, he was intended for the church, and passed some time at the court of Hermann, elector of Cologne, who appointed him to a canonry in his cathedral. |
 | | In 1526 he had married Dorothea, daughter of Frederick I., king of Denmark, and after her death in 1547, Anna Maria, daughter of Eric I., duke of Brunswick. |
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