He married Margaret, daughter of the emperor Frederick II, in 1254, and in 1265 received from his father Thuringia and the Saxon palatinate.
His infatuation for Kunigunde of Eisenberg caused his wife to leave him, and after her death in 1270 he married Kunigunde, who had already borne him a son, Apitz or Albert.
He wished to make Apitz his successor in Thuringia, a plan which was resisted by his two elder sons, and a war broke out which lasted until 1307, when he abandoned Thuringia, in return for a yearly payment, but retained the title of landgrave.
Albert married Elizabeth, daughter of Hermann III, count of Orlamunde, after the death of his second wife in 1286.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclop dia Britannica.
ARCHDUKE ALBERT (FRIEDRICH RUDOLF ALBRECHT) (1817-1895), Austrian field-marshal, was the eldest son of the archduke Charles (Karl Friedrich), and was born on the 3rd of August 1817 at Vienna.
After being educated under the careful superintendence of his father, he entered the Austrian (K.K.) army as a colonel of infantry in 1837, and was transferred to the cavalry arm in 1839, becoming a major-general in 1840.
Albert chose to follow the latter, and was thus saved from the pseudoscientific pedantry which brought defeat to the Austrian arms in 1859 and in 1866.
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