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- In the third year of his reign the prince-elector died as a result of an accidental fire in a farmhouse on the Lochau Heath near Annaburg, where he was overnighting with his wife during a hunt. The fire came so close to them that he and his wife, dressed only in nightshirts had to be rescued through a window.
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House of Wettin. Father. Frederick II, Elector of Saxony. Mother. Margaret of Austria. Religion. Roman Catholicism. Albert III ( German: Albrecht) (27 January 1443 – 12 September 1500) was a Duke of Saxony. He was nicknamed Albert the Bold or Albert the Courageous and founded the Albertine line of the House of Wettin .
July 27/31, 1443, Grimma, Saxony. Died: Sept. 12, 1500, Emden, East Frisia. House / Dynasty: Wettin dynasty. Albert III (born July 27/31, 1443, Grimma, Saxony—died Sept. 12, 1500, Emden, East Frisia) was the duke of Saxony, founder of the Albertine branch of the House of Wettin, and marshal of the Holy Roman Empire.
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In the third year of his reign the prince-elector died as a result of an accidental fire in a farmhouse on the Lochau Heath near Annaburg, where he was overnighting with his wife during a hunt. The fire came so close to them that he and his wife, dressed only in nightshirts had to be rescued through a window.
- Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg
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Albert was a son of John I, Duke of Saxony and Ingeborg Birgersdotter of Småland. Albert III's father, John I, resigned as duke in 1282 in favour of his three sons Albert III, Eric I, and John II. As they were all minors, their uncle Albert IIacted as their regent. When Albert III and his brothers came of age they shared the government of the duchy...
Albert III and his brothers at first jointly ruled Saxe-Lauenburg, before they partitioned it into three parts, while the exclave Land of Hadeln remained a jointly ruled territory. Albert III then held Saxe-Ratzeburguntil his death in 1308. His brother Eric I inherited part of Albert's lands, while Albert's widow, Margaret of Brandenburg-Salzwedel,...
In 1302 Albert III married Margaret of Brandenburg, and they had two children: 1. Albert (Albrecht) (?–1344), who later married Sophia of Ziegenhain 2. Eric (?–1338)
Groningen was captured, but soon afterwards the duke died at Emden, on the 12th of September 1500. He was buried at Meissen. Albert, who was a man of great strength and considerable skill in feats of arms, delighted in tournaments and knightly exercises.
;III. (1443-i 500), duke of Saxony, surnamed ANMMOSUs or THE Courageous, younger son of Frederick II., the Mild, elector and duke of Saxony, was born on the 27th of January 1 443, and after escaping from the hands of Kunz von Kaufungen, who had abducted him together with his brother Ernest, passed
Albert III (German language: Albrecht) (27 January 1443 – 12 September 1500) was a Duke of Saxony. He was nicknamed Albert the Bold or Albert the Courageous and founded the Albertine line of the House of Wettin. Albert was born in Grimma as the third and youngest son (but fifth child in order of birth) of Frederick II the Gentle, Elector of Saxony, and Margarete of Austria, sister of ...
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