Albrecht III Achilles

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Albrecht III Achilles
Portrait of Albrecht Achilles, St. Gumbertus, Ansbach (1484)
Elector of Brandenburg
Reign	10 February 1471 – 11 March 1486
Predecessor	Frederick II
Successor	John Cicero
Born	(1414-11-09)9 November 1414 Tangermünde, Brandenburg
Died	11 March 1486(1486-03-11) (aged 71) Imperial City of Frankfurt
Burial	Heilsbronn Abbey
Spouse	Margaret of Baden ​ ​ (m. 1446; died 1457)​ Anna of Saxony ​ (m. 1458)​
Issue Detail	John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg Ursula Elisabeth Margareta Frederick I Amalie Barbara Sibylle Siegmund
House	Hohenzollern
Father	Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg
Mother	Elisabeth of Bavaria-Landshut
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Albrecht III (9 November 1414 – 11 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).