Person:Albert, Duke of Prussia (1)

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Albert , Duke of Prussia

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Alt Name: Albrecht van Brandenburg

Child of family: Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach and Sofie of Poland (1)

Spouse of family: Albert, Duke of Prussia and Anna Marie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1)

Spouse of family: Albrecht Van Brandenburg and Dorothea Van Denemarken (1)

Spouse of family: Albrecht Van Brandenburg and Anna Van Brunswijk Kalenberg (1)

Birth ^S1: 16 May 1490

Death ^S1: 20 Mar 1568

Alt Birth: 17 MAY 1490; Ansbach

Alt Death: 20 MAR 1568; Tapiau

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Albert (; ; 16 May 1490 – 20 March 1568) was the 37th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion. Albert proved instrumental in the political spread of Protestantism in its early stage.

Because Albert was a member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, it had been hoped that his election as Grand Master would reverse the decline of the Teutonic Knights since 1410; Duke Frederick of Saxony of the House of Wettin had been elected for the same reason. Instead, Albert's secularization of the Prussian territories of the Order eventually led to the inheritance of the Duchy of Prussia by the Margraviate of Brandenburg.

Albert's titles (on his proclamation of 1561 in Königsberg) were: Albert the Elder, Margrave of Brandenburg in Prussia, Stettin in Pomerania, Duke of the Kashubians, and Wends, Burgrave of Nuremberg, and Count of Rügen etc.

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