Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg (died 1486)

Albrecht III Achilles

Elector of Brandenburg from 1471 to 1486

Albrecht III 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…