Person

Albert I

Duke of Saxony

b. 1175 CE – d. 1260 CE World The Great Crossroads

Albert I (German: Albrecht I.)

(c. 1175 – 7 October 1260) is a Duke of Saxony, Angria, and Westphalia; Lord of Nordalbingia; Count of Anhalt; and Prince-elector and Archmarshal of the Holy Roman Empire.

Even though his grandfather Albert the Bear had held the Saxon dukedom between 1138 and 1142, this Albert is counted as the first.