Person

Albert the Bear

Margrave of Brandenburg and Duke of Saxony

b. 1100 CE – d. 1170 CE World The Great Crossroads

Albert the Bear (German: Albrecht der Bär; c. 1100 – 18 November 1170) is the first Margrave of Brandenburg (as Albert I) from 1157 to his death and is briefly Duke of Saxony between 1138 and 1142