Albrecht III. (Brandenburg)

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Albrecht III. (* around 1250; † between November 19 and December 4, 1300 , probably at Eberswalde Castle) was Margrave of the Mark Brandenburg . It belonged to the Ascanian line of Brandenburg-Salzwedel , which existed from 1266 to 1317, also known as the younger Ascanian branch of Brandenburg or the Ottonian line .

Albrecht III. of Brandenburg

Life

Albrecht III. was the son of Otto III. and Beatrix (Bozana), daughter of King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia .

As Otto's son, he carried the title of margrave and notarized various businesses in this function, but remained only “co-regent”. The politics of the Mark Brandenburg determined in his time his cousin Otto IV. "With the arrow" . Albrecht III. administered the Stargard rule , which fell to Brandenburg in 1236 . In 1284 Albrecht III. sole ruler of Stargard and Lychen . After the death of his sons Otto and Johann (around 1299) Albrecht III. his son Henry II. of Mecklenburg (by ticket purchase ) the rule Stargard, which already in 1292 by Albrecht's daughter Beatrix as Wittum had been brought in with her marriage to Henry. With the Wittmannsdorf Treaty in 1304 this transfer was finally established as a fief after Albrecht's death.

A year before his death, in 1299, he founded the Cistercian Order , the monastery Himmelpfort (Latin: porta Coeli) in the country Lychen . At the end of the year 1300, the exact date is unknown, Albrecht III died. and was first buried in the monastery church in Strausberg, next to his wife Mathilde. In 1309 the mortal remains of Albrecht III were transferred. to the monastery he founded in Himmelpfort . They were lost over time.

With his death, the Brandenburg parts of the country were only divided between two major heads. On Otto IV with the arrow from the Johanne line (Stendaler branch) and on Hermann der Lange , son of Otto V der Lange , universal heir of the Ottonian line (Salzwedeler branch).

Albrecht III. was married to Mathilde of Denmark († around 1300), daughter of King Christoph I (Denmark) , since 1268 .

progeny

⚭ 1291–1296 with Przemysław II , King of Poland and
⚭ 1302–1309 with Albrecht III. , co-ruling Margrave of Saxony-Lauenburg
personal data
SURNAME Albrecht III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Margrave of Brandenburg from the Ascan family
DATE OF BIRTH around 1250
DATE OF DEATH between November 19, 1300 and December 4, 1300