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ALBERT

Volume 1 · 66 words · 1797 Edition

Margrave of Brandenburg, and the last grand master of the Teutonic Order, laid aside the habit of his order, embraced Lutheranism, and concluded a peace at Cracow in 1525, by which he was acknowledged Duke of the east part of Prussia (formerly called for that reason Ducal Prussia), but to be held as a fief of Poland, and to descend to his male heirs. See PRUSSIA.