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Albrecht III Achilles
Portrait of Albrecht Achilles, St. Gumbertus, Ansbach (1484)
Elector of Brandenburg
Reign
10 February 1471 – 11 March 1486
Predecessor
Frederick II
Successor
John Cicero
Born
(1414-11-09)9 November 1414 Tangermünde, Brandenburg
Died
11 March 1486(1486-03-11) (aged 71) Imperial City of Frankfurt
Burial
Heilsbronn Abbey
Spouse
Margaret of Baden
(m. 1446; died 1457)
Anna of Saxony
(m. 1458)
Issue Detail
John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg
Ursula
Elisabeth
Margareta
Frederick I
Amalie
Barbara
Sibylle
Siegmund
House
Hohenzollern
Father
Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg
Mother
Elisabeth of Bavaria-Landshut
Signature
Albrecht III (9 November 1414 – 11 March 1486) was Elector of Brandenburg from 1471 until his death, the third from the House of Hohenzollern. A member of the Order of the Swan, he received the cognomen Achilles because of his knightly qualities and virtues. He also ruled in the Franconian principalities of Ansbach from 1440 and Kulmbach from 1464 (as Albrecht I).
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