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Personal data Albrecht von BRAUNSCHWEIG-LUNEBURG I 

• He was born in the year 1236 in Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany.
• Title: Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
• (Ancestry) : House of Guelph/Welf.
• He died on August 15, 1279 in Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany, he was 43 years old.
• He is buried in the year 1279 in Braunschweig Cathedral, Braunschweig, Germany.
• A child of Otto von BRAUNSCHWEIG-LUNEBURG and Mechthilde von BRANDENBURG

Household of Albrecht von BRAUNSCHWEIG-LUNEBURG I

(1) He is married to Elizabeth de BRABANT.

They got married in the year 1254, he was 18 years old.

• The couple has common ancestors.



(2) He is married to Adelheid de MONTFERRAT.

They got married in the year 1263, he was 27 years old.




Child(ren):

1. Matilda von BRAUNSCHWEIG-LUNEBURG  1276-1318 
2. Heinrich von BRAUNSCHWEIG-GRUBENHAGEN  1267-1322 
3. Wilhelm von BRAUNSCHWEIG-LUNEBURG  1270-1292
4. Albrecht von BRAUNSCHWEIG-LUNEBURG  1268-1318 


• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about Albrecht von BRAUNSCHWEIG-LUNEBURG I

Albert the Tall (Latin: Albertus Longus, German: Albrecht der Große; 1236 - 15 August 1279), a member of the House of Welf, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg from 1252 and the first ruler of the newly created Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1269 until his death.

Albert was the oldest surviving son of the first Brunswick duke Otto the Child and his wife, Matilda of Brandenburg. When his father died in 1252, he took over the rule of the duchy; later his younger brother John joined him.

Albert's rule was initially troubled by several armed conflicts as the Welf dukes still had to cope with the followers of the extinct Hohenstaufen dynasty within their dominions. In 1260/61 Albert's troops fought against the Danish duke Eric I of Schleswig on behalf of Queen Margaret Sambiria and her minor son King Eric V of Denmark. In 1263 the duke quite luckless interfered in the War of the Thuringian Succession to support the claims raised by his mother-in-law Sophie of Brabant.

On 31 May 1267, the brothers agreed to divide the Welf lands, which happened in 1269. Albert partitioned the territory while John obtained the right to choose his part. He took the northern half including the region of Lüneburg, Celle and the city of Hanover, while Albert received the southern part around the cities of Brunswick and Wolfenbüttel, stretching from the area around the Calenberg hill to the town of Helmstedt, the Harz mountain range, and Göttingen. The Brunswick residence itself was to remain common property of the brothers.

Albert then concentrated on the development of his hereditary lands. During the Imperial interregnum, he sided with the rising Bohemian king Ottokar II until his final defeat in the 1278 Battle on the Marchfeld. When his brother John died in 1277, he took over the guardianship for his minor nephew Otto II of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

Albert died on 15 August 1279 and is buried at Brunswick Cathedral. He was succeeded by his elder three sons, the younger three joined the Church.

In 1254, Albert married Elizabeth of Brabant (1243 - October 9, 1261), daughter of Duke Henry II of Brabant and Sophie of Thuringia. They had no children

After Elizabeth's death in 1261, Henry married Adelheid (Alessia) (1242 - February 6, 1284/85), daughter of Margrave Boniface II of Montferrat around 1263. Once widowed she married Gerhard I, Count of Holstein-Itzehoe. Albert and Adelheid had the following children:

Henry I, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (1267-1322)
Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1268-1318)
William I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1270-1292)
Otto (died ca. 1346)
Matilda of Brunswick-Lüneburg, married the Piast duke Henry III of Głogów, died 11 December 1310
Luther von Braunschweig (died 1335), Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights from 1331
Conrad (died ca. 1303)
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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