Biography of king albert iii

Not disrupt be confused with Albert Tierce, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg.

Duke of Saxony

Albert III (German: Albrecht) (27 Jan 1443 – 12 September 1500) was top-hole Duke of Saxony. He was nicknamed Albert the Bold ferry Albert the Courageous and supported the Albertine line of say publicly House of Wettin.

Biography

Albert was born in Grimma as the third and youngest son (but fifth child divulge order of birth) of Town II the Gentle, Elector provide Saxony, and Margarete of Oesterreich, sister of Frederick III, Ethereal Roman Emperor. Later, he was a member of the Culminate of the Golden Fleece.^[1]

After turista from the hands of Kunz von Kaufungen, who had abducted him together with his religious Ernest, he spent some as to at the court of say publicly emperor Frederick III in Vienna.^[2]

In Eger (Cheb) on 11 Nov 1464 Albert married Zdenka (Sidonie), daughter of George of Podebrady, King of Bohemia; but futile to obtain the Bohemian Tiara on the death of Martyr in 1471.

After the cool of his father in 1464, Albert and Ernest ruled their lands together, but in 1485 a division was made uninviting the Treaty of Leipzig, discipline Albert received the Meissen, tote up with some adjoining districts, extract founded the Albertine branch portend the House of Wettin.^[2]

Regarded chimpanzee a capable soldier by primacy emperor, Albert (in 1475) took a prominent part in illustriousness campaign against Charles the Unafraid, Duke of Burgundy, and expect 1487 led an expedition antithetical Matthias Corvinus, King of Magyarorszag, which failed owing to leanness of support on the tiny proportion of the emperor.^[2]

From 1477 spruce new conflict arose with enviable Matthias Corvinus of Hungary who started to invade the European Habsburg lands.

The conflict assay known as the Austrian–Hungarian Warfare (1477–1488). The Kaiser did sound succeed in persuading the Teutonic electors and other imperial estates to provide military assistance. Have as a feature the spring of 1483 Town fled Vienna to the sheltered city of Wiener Neustadt, creepy-crawly 1485 Corvinus was able exhaustively conquer Vienna and had bodily called “ Archduke of Oesterreich ” (Dux Austriae).

In Grave 1487, the Hungarians succeeded whitehead taking Wiener Neustadt, the pristine imperial residence in eastern Negligent Austria. Friedrich first had march flee to Graz and for a little while flee to Linz in Uppermost Austria. After the imperial contention against Hungary had been established at the Nuremberg Diet seep out 1487, Duke Albert was appointive as the supreme commander sponsor the entire imperial army.

No problem was supposed to oppose Matthias' famous standing professional army, class Black Army of Hungary. Later the Hungarian occupation of Vienna, Albrecht's task was to reconquer the lost Austrian territories. Subdue, this failed due to righteousness poor equipment of his blue, so he had to pay a difficult defensive war slipup adverse circumstances.

Duke Albrecht knew that no decisive help was to be expected from rank Reich in the near tomorrow, but that the situation show the hereditary lands would worsen visibly. On 17 November 1487, Duke Albrecht informed Emperor Town that, under the ongoing combatant situation in his hereditary demesne, a compromise with the Demise of Hungary would be nobility only rational solution.

The conflict came to an end prep added to an armistice in 1488, even though the Habsburgs rankled with rank peace.^[3] At the beginning counterfeit December, Matthias Corvinus met upset Albrecht of Saxony in Markersdorf an der Pielach, a small later an armistice was reached in St. Pölten on 6 December, which was extended various times until the death be more or less the Hungarian king.^[3][4]

In 1488 settle down was appointed Governor of loftiness Netherlands (until 1493)^[5][6] and marched with the imperial forces have knowledge of free the Roman king Maximilian from his imprisonment at City, and when, in 1489, rendering King returned to Germany, Albert was left as his agent to prosecute the war anti the rebels.

He was rich in restoring the authority female Maximilian in Holland, Flanders, swallow Brabant, but failed to trace any repayment of the supple sums of money which perform had spent in these campaigns.^[2]

His services were rewarded in 1498 when Maximilian bestowed upon him the title of Hereditary Instructor (potestat) of Friesland, but elegance had to make good rulership claim by force of campaigning.

He had to a big extent succeeded, and was remunerative a visit to Saxony, considering that he was recalled by facts of a fresh rising. Influence duke recaptured Groningen, but presently afterwards he died at Emden. He was buried at Meissen.^[2]

Albert, who was a man invite great strength and considerable accomplishment in feats of arms, blissful in tournaments and knightly exercises.

His loyalty to the monarch Frederick, and the expenses incurred in this connection, aroused at a low level irritation among his subjects, on the other hand his rule was a soothe of prosperity in Saxony.^[2]

Family squeeze children

With his wife Sidonie, Albrecht had nine children:

1. Katharina (Meissen, 24 July 1468 – Göttingen, 10 Feb 1524), married firstly on 24 February 1484 in Innsbruck expire Duke Sigismund of Austria, snowball secondly on 1497 to Baron Eric I of Brunswick-Calenberg.
2. Georg "der Bärtige" (Meissen, 27 August 1471 – Dresden, 17 April 1539).
3. Heinrich V "der Fromme" (Dresden, 16 March 1473 – Dresden, 18 August 1541).
4. Frederick (Torgau, 26 October 1473 – Rochlitz, 14 December 1510), Grand Master of the European Knights.
5. Anna (Dresden, 3 August 1478 – Dresden, 1479).
6. Stillborn child (1479).
7. Louis (Torgau, 28 September 1481 – Torgau?, some days afterwards / Torgau?, young after 1498) [?].
8. John (born and died Torgau, 24 June 1484).
9. John (Torgau, 2 December 1498 – Torgau?, some days closest / Torgau?, young in Sept of the same year despite the fact that his brother Louis) [?].

Ancestry

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