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George Albert of Brandenburg (20 November 1591, in Berlin – 29 November 1615, in Sonnenburg, present-day Słońsk), was Margrave of Brandenburg as George Albert II. Life. George Albert was a member of the House of Hohenzollern.
This article lists the Margraves and Electors of Brandenburg during the period of time that Brandenburg was a constituent state of the Holy Roman Empire. The Mark, or March , of Brandenburg was one of the primary constituent states of the Holy Roman Empire .
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Albert II was the youngest son of Otto I and his second wife Ada of Holland.His father Otto I promoted and directed the foundation of German settlement in the area, which had been Slavic until the 10th century.
Stephan Warnatsch describes Otto I's children as follows: [They] continued the territorialisation drive that had been initiated [by their father] and, from the end of the 12th Century, as the influx of settlers grew stronger, and, consequently, more people were available to develop the territory, started to expand into the areas of Ruppin, and in p...
In 1205, Albert married Matilda of Groitzsch (1185–1225), daughter of the Count Conrad II of Lusatia, a member of the House of Wettin, and wife Elizabeth, from the Polish Piast dynasty. They had four children: 1. John I (born: c.1213; died: 4 April 1266) 2. Otto III "the Pious"(born: 1215; died: 9 October 1267) 3. Matilda (died: 10 June 1261), marr...
Lyon, Jonathan R. (2013). Princely Brothers and Sisters: The Sibling Bond in German Politics, 1100–1250. Cornell University Press.Johannes Schultz: Die Mark Brandenburg, Berlin Verlag, Berlin, 1961Gustav Albrecht: "Markgraf Albrecht II.", in: Hie gut Brandenburg alleweg! Geschichts- und Kulturbilder aus der Vergangenheit der Mark und aus Alt-Berlin bis zum Tode des Großen Kurfürsten, edited...Helmut Assing: Brandenburg, Anhalt und Thüringen im Mittelalter. Askanier und Ludowinger beim Aufbau fürstlicher Territorialherrschaften, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 1997, ISBN 3-412-02497-XLife. George Albert was a member of the House of Hohenzollern. He was a son of the Elector John George of Brandenburg (1525–1598) from his third marriage to Elisabeth (1563–1607), daughter of Prince Joachim Ernest of Anhalt.
George Albert II, Margrave of Brandenburg by Andreas Riehl in Jagdschloss Grunewald: Hohenzollerngalerie (2 F)
Thereafter, the Slavs drove the Germans back, but from 1106, under Lothar, duke of Saxony (later German emperor), and Albert I the Bear, whom he made margrave of the North March (Nordmark) in 1134, German conquest, colonization, and Christianization of the region began in earnest.
George Albert of Brandenburg (20 November 1591, in Berlin – 29 November 1615, in Sonnenburg, present-day Słońsk), was Margrave of Brandenburg as George Albert II.
