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First Duke of Prussia. Elected grand-master of the Teutonic Order, 1510, he seized Church property to defray the expenses of a disastrous war with Poland (1519-1521). He met Luther (1522–1523), on whose advice he secularized the order, and with the entire chapter and a majority of the knights adopted Lutheranism. By the Treaty of Cracow, 1525, with Sigismund, King of Poland, the lands of the order became a fief of Poland vested in Albert, on whom Sigismund conferred the title of Duke of Prussia.

Born

• 1490 in Ansbach, Bavaria (in modern Germany)

Died

• 1568 in Tapinu, East Prussia (in modern Germany) of natural causes

MLA Citation

• “Albert of Brandenburg-Ansbach”. New Catholic Dictionary. CatholicSaints.Info. 13 November 2019. Web. 27 February 2021. <>