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Albrecht III Achilles _____, Elector of Brandenburg
b.9 Nov 1414 ,Tangermunde,Saxony,Prussia
d.11 Mar 1486 Frankfurt Arn Main, Hessen, Nassau, Prussia
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m. 27 Sep 1401
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m. 1 Jan 1446
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m. 12 Nov 1458
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Albrecht III (9 November 141411 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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