Albert I the Tall, duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Albrecht I. der Große (auch Albrecht der Lange genannt), Herzog zu Braunschweig-Lüneburg aus dem Hause der Welfen - war gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder Johann I. zweiter Herzog von Braunschweig und Lüneburg bis zur Teilung des Herzogtums 1269 und anschließend bis zu seinem Tod erster Regent des neu geschaffenen Fürstentums Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. Wikipedia DE

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• Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg: 1252–1269 jointly with John

Predecessor: Otto I(Otto the Child) Successor: Partitioning among the rulers

• Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburg, Prince of Wolfenbüttel: 1269–1277

Predecessor: Principality of Wolfenbüttel partitioned from the Duchy of Brunswick and Lunenburg Successor: Henry I, Albert II, and William I

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Albrecht I the Great, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

(* 1236 , † 15 August 1279 , also called Albrecht Lange) from the house of Guelph , along with his brother was John I second Duke of Brunswick and Lüneburg until the division the Duchy in 1269 and then until his death in the first Regent of the newly created principality Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel .

Life

After the death of his father Otto , the first Duke of Brunswick and Luneburg, took over Albrecht in 1252 the government of the Duchy and the guardianship of his younger brother Johann . First, the two brothers ruled the duchy jointly. In 1267 they took then, because none of the brothers came out as the Duke, the division of the Duchy before. Albrecht shared ownership, Johann was given the right to choose a part. Johann himself chose the Lüneburg Country with the city of Hanover as a duchy. Albrecht received the land around Braunschweig and Wolfenbüttel Calenberg areas in and around Göttingen. So he founded the so-called "Older house Braunschweig", his brother the "Older house Lüneburg". The division was finally effective for 1269. Albert I died in 1279 and was in the Brunswick Cathedral buried.

Descendants

Duke Albrecht married in 1254 Elisabeth von Brabant († 1261), daughter of Duke Henry II of Brabant. and Sophie of Thuringia , granddaughter of Saint Elizabeth and sister of Henry I , the first Landgrave of Hesse ; this marriage remained childless. In a second marriage he married Adelaide of Monferrato , the daughter of the Marquis Boniface II. of Montferrat († 1253/55) and of Margaret of Savoy. From this marriage a daughter and six sons were born, of whom entered the three eldest sons in the inheritance and the youngest Grand Master of the Teutonic Order was:

• Heinrich (1267-1322)
• Albrecht of fats (1268-1318)
• Wilhelm (1270-1292)
• Otto († around 1346)
• Luther (or Lothar) (1275-1335) was from 1331 to 1335 Grand Master of the Teutonic Order
• Mechthild (1276-1318), ∞ 1310/12 Heinrich III. , Duke of Glogau and Sagan
• Conrad († around 1303)

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ALBRECHT von Braunschweig, son of OTTO I “dem Kind” Herzog von Braunschweig & his wife Mathilde von Brandenburg [Askanier] (1236-Braunschweig 15 Aug 1279, bur Braunschweig Cathedral). The Cronica Principum Saxonie names "Albertum" second in its list of children of "Ottonem de Lunenburch" & his wife[124]. “Mechtildis...ducissa de Bruns” granted property to the citizens of Lüneburg, with the consent of “filiorum nostrorum Alberti, Johannis et Ottonis et filiarum nostrarum”, by charter dated 28 Apr 1248[125]. He succeeded his father in 1252 as ALBRECHT I "der Große" Herzog von Braunschweig und Lüneburg. Herzog von Braunschweig und Lüneburg in Braunschweig 1267, 1269. The Annales Lubicenses record the death in 1279 of "Albertus dux de Brunswich"[126]. The Libro Memoriarum Sancti Blasii records the death in 1279 of "princeps Albertus senior dux in Brunswik"[127]. The Cronica Principum Saxonie records the death "1279 in die assumptionis" of "Albertum"[128]. The Chronica Principum Brunsvicensium records the death "1279 die assumptionis beate virginis" of "Albertus" and his burial "Brunswic in ecclesia sancti Blasii"[129]. The necrology of Visbeck records the death "XVIII Kal Sep" of "Albertus dux de Bruneswic"[130].

m firstly (Braunschweig 13 Jul 1254) ELISABETH de Brabant, daughter of HENRI II Duke of Brabant & his second wife Sophie von Thüringen (1243-17 Apr or 9 Oct 1261, bur Braunschweig). The Oude Kronik van Brabant names "Elisabeth ducissam de Bruynswiich" as the daughter of "Henricus secundus et quintus dux Brabancie" and his second wife Sophia[131]. The Cronica Principum Saxonie refers to the first wife of "Albertum" as "filiam ducis Brabancie"[132]. The Chronica Principum Brunsvicensium names "Elyzabet filiam ducis Brabancie" as wife of "Albertus", specifying that she died childless in 1261[133].

m secondly (contract 6 Oct 1262, Kenilworth 1 Nov 1266) as her first husband, ALESSINA di Monferrato, daughter of BONIFACIO II Marchese di Monferrato & his wife Marguerite de Savoie (-6 Feb 1285). The marriage contract between “duci Bruneswik” and “sororem marchionis Montis Ferati” is dated 6 Oct 1262[134]. The Annales Londonienses record the marriage in 1267 of "dux de Bruneswiche" and "filiam Marchisi de Monteferato, cognatam regine" at Kenilworth[135]. The Cronica Principum Saxonie names "filiam marchionis Montis-Ferrati Aleidem" as second wife of "Albertus"[136]. She married secondly (1282) as his second wife, Gerhard I Graf von Holstein-Schauenburg zu Itzehoe. The Libro Memoriarum Sancti Blasii records the death in Feb 1285 of "Allexina ducissa in Brunswich et cometissa Holsacie, soror comitis Montisferranum"[137].

Albrecht I & his second wife had seven children: