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Albert III (German: Albrecht III.; c. 1375/1380 – before 12 November 1422) was the last Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg and Elector of Saxony from the House of Ascania. After his death, King Sigismund ceded his duchy and the Saxon electoral dignity to Margrave Frederick IV of Meissen from the House of Wettin.
- Wenceslaus I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg
- Cecilia of Carrara
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 .
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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)
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
ALBERT III. (1443–1500), duke of Saxony, surnamed Animosus or the Courageous, younger son of Frederick II., the Mild, elector and duke of Saxony, was born on the 27th of January 1443, and after escaping from the hands of Kunz von Kaufungen, who had abducted him together with his brother Ernest, passed some time at the court of the emperor Frederick III. in Vienna.
Albert III (1281–1308) was a member of the House of Ascania who ruled as one of the dukes of Saxony from 1282 until his death.
