Ancestral Trails 2016 » Albrecht von SAXONY I (1175-1260)

Personal data Albrecht von SAXONY I 

• He was born in the year 1175 in Anhalt, Sachsen, Germany.

  Attention: Was older than 65 years (74) when child (Johan von SAXONY) was born (??-??-1249).

  Attention: Was older than 65 years (72) when child (Helene von SAXONY) was born (??-??-1247).

  Attention: Was older than 65 years (75) when child (Albrecht von SAXE-WITTENBERG) was born (??-??-1250).

• Title: Count of Anhalt, Prince Elector of the Holy Roman Empire
• Title: Duke of Saxony, Angria & Westphalia, Lord of Nordalbingia
• (Ancestry) : House of Ascania.
• He died on October 7, 1260 in Lehnin Abbey, Lehnin, Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg, Germany, he was 85 years old.
• A child of Bernhard von ANHALT and Brigitte KNUDSDOTTIR

Household of Albrecht von SAXONY I

(1) He is married to Agnes von THURINGIA.

They got married in the year 1238, he was 63 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Margarete von SAXONY  ± 1241-1265
2. Jutta von SAXONY  ± 1240-1287 
3. Agnes von SAXONY  ± 1239-????
4. Elizabeth von SAXE-WITTENBERG  ± 1230-1306

(2) He is married to Helene von BRAUNSCHWEIG-LUNEBURG.

They got married in the year 1247, he was 72 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Rudolf von SAXONY  ± 1251-> 1269
2. Elizabeth von SAXONY  ± 1248-< 1306
3. Johan von SAXONY  1249-1285 
4. Albrecht von SAXE-WITTENBERG  1250-1298 
5. Helene von SAXONY  1247-1309 

• The couple has common ancestors.



(3) He is married to Agnes von ÖSTERREICH.

They got married in the year 1222, he was 47 years old.




Child(ren):

1. Brigitte Jutta von SAXONY  ± 1225-1266
2. Mechtilde von SAXONY  ± 1226-1266
3. Anna Marie von SAXONY  ± 1224-1252
4. Judith von SAXONY  1223-< 1267 


• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about Albrecht von SAXONY I

Albert I (German: Albrecht I.) (c. 1175 - 7 October 1260) was a Duke of Saxony, Angria, and Westphalia; Lord of Nordalbingia; Count of Anhalt; and Prince-elector and Archmarshal of the Holy Roman Empire. Even though his grandfather Albert the Bear had held the Saxon dukedom between 1138 and 1142, this Albert is counted as the first.

A member of the House of Ascania, Albert was a younger son of Bernard III, Duke of Saxony, and Brigitte of Denmark, daughter of Canute V of Denmark. After his father's death in 1212, the surviving sons of the late duke divided his lands according to the laws of the House of Ascania: The elder Henry received Anhalt and the younger Albert the Saxon duchy. Albert supported Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, in his wars against the Hohenstaufen.

In 1218 Albert's maternal uncle Prince-Archbishop Valdemar of Denmark, who had been deposed from his Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen, found refuge in Saxony, before he joined the Loccum Abbey as monk.

On 22 July 1227 Albert I asserted as fellow victor in the Battle of Bornhöved, commanding the Holy Roman left flank, his earlier disputed rank as liege lord of the Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein, a privilege, however, lost by his successor John V in 1474. After Bornhöved Albert reinforced and extended his fortress and castle in Lauenburg upon Elbe, which his father Bernard had erected in 1182.

Albert came into conflict with Ludolph I, Prince-Bishop of Ratzeburg, and duly imprisoned Ludolph, where he was badly beaten, and later sent into exile.

After Albert's death at Lehnin Abbey, his sons, the elder John I and the younger Albert II, ruled together as Dukes of Saxony, with John succeeded by his three sons Albert III, Eric I and John II, until before 20 September 1296 they split Saxony into Saxe-Lauenburg and Saxe-Wittenberg, with the brothers jointly ruling the former, and Albert II ruling the latter.

In 1222 Albert married Agnes of Austria (1206-before 29 August 1238) daughter of Duke Leopold VI of Austria
Bernard (d. after 1238)
Judith of Saxony, (1)17 November 1239 King Eric IV of Denmark (1216-1250); and
(2) Burchard VIII of Querfurt-Rosenburg, Burgrave of Magdeburg (1273-1313 recorded)
Ann Mary (Anna Marie; d. 7 January 1252), Duke Barnim I of Pomerania
Bridget (Brigitte Jutta) (d. 4 April 1266), fiancée of Otto of Brunswick and Lunenburg, before 1255 Margrave John I of Brandenburg
Mathilde (Mechthild) (d. 28 July 1266), ca. 1241 Count John I of Schauenburg and Holstein-Kiel

In 1238 Albert married Agnes of Thuringia (1205-1246), daughter of Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia
Agnes, Duke Henry of Silesia-Breslau
Jutta, m. 1255, John I, Margrave of Brandenburg; 2m: Burkhard VIII of Rosenburg, Burgrave of Magdeburg
Margaret (d. 1265), 1264 Count Helmold III of Schwerin

In 1247 Albert married Helene of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1231-6 September 1273), daughter of Duke Otto the Child
Helene (1247-12 June 1309), (1) in 1266 Duke Henry III the White of Silesia-Breslau, and (2) in 1275 Burgrave Frederick III of Nuremberg
Elisabeth (d. before 2 February 1306), (1) in 1250 Count John I of Schauenburg and Holstein-Kiel, (2) in 1265 Count Conrad I of Brehna
John I (after 1248-30 July 1285, in Wittenberg upon Elbe), co-ruling Duke of Saxony with his younger brother Albert II, resigned in 1282, John I married in 1257 Ingeborg Birgersdotter of Småland (1247/or ca. 1253-1302), daughter or grandchild of Birger jarl
Albert (Albrecht) II (1250-25 August 1298), co-ruling Duke of Saxony with his elder brother John II (till 1282), then with the sons of the latter (till 1296), then as the sole duke of the partitioned branch duchy Saxe-Wittenberg, in 1273 Agnes (aka Hagne) (c. 1257-11 October 1322, in Wittenberg), daughter of King Rudolph I of Germany
Rudolf (d. after 1269), Anna, daughter of Count Palatine Louis of Bavaria
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_I,_Duke_of_Saxony


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