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Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1st creation) (1440–1457) Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (2nd creation) (1486–1495) Margraviate of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (3rd creation) (1515–1557) Margraviate of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1535–1571) Margraviate of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (changed seat from Kulmbach to Bayreuth) (1603–1769) Electorate ...
The Margraviate of Brandenburg (German: Markgrafschaft Brandenburg) was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1157 to 1806 that played a pivotal role in the history of Germany and Central Europe. Brandenburg developed out of the Northern March founded in the territory of the Slavic Wends. It derived one of its names from this ...
House. House of Ascania. Father. Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg. Mother. Ada of Holland. Albert II ( c. 1177 – 25 February 1220) was a member of the House of Ascania who ruled as the margrave of Brandenburg from 1205 until his death in 1220.
Albert was a margrave. That means he ruled one of the constantly threatened border areas of the German empire in the name of the king. And in order to protect those areas he was given quite special powers and privileges. In his right hand, Albert holds a sword, pointing upwards.
The Hohenzollern dynasty who ruled Brandenburg after 1415 inherited the duchy of Prussia 1618. That land was elevated to the rank of kingdom and Prussia replaced Brandenburg as the name of the Hohenzollern Dynasty’s domains. Maps and texts over Prussia's history are available on this page. Margraviate of Nordmark
When Duke of Prussia Albert Frederick died in 1618 without having had a son, his son-in-law John Sigismund, at the time the prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, inherited the Duchy of Prussia. He then ruled both territories in a personal union that came to be known as Brandenburg-Prussia.
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The margraviate of Brandenburg was one of the most significant principalities of the German Reich that existed until 1806. It arose in 1157 and from the late thirteenth century onwards was one of the seven electoral principalities whose lords had the right to elect the king. Otto founded bishoprics for the Christianisation of the heathen Slavs ...
