Albert I, Duke of Münsterberg-Oels

Albert I of Münsterberg (also: Albrecht von Podiebrad; Czech: Albrecht z Minstrberka; Albrecht Poděbrady; born August 3, 1468 Kunětické Hora, † July 12, 1511 in Proßnitz ) was Duke in the Silesian principalities part Münsterberg and Oels and Count Glatz.

Life

Albrecht was a grandson of the Bohemian King George of Podiebrad. His parents were Henry the Elder. Münsterberg and Ursula of Brandenburg, daughter of Margrave Albrecht Achilles.

1487 Albrecht was with Salome ( 1475/76-1514 ), a subsidiary of Saganer Duke John II married. The following year, his younger brothers George and Charles were married to daughters of John II.

After the death of her father, the three brothers Albrecht, George and Charles ruled first together, each lived on his own farm: Albrecht in Glatz, Georg in oil which Karl in Münsterberg and from 1530 in the newly built castle in Frankenstein. Although the three brothers, the County of Glatz already in 1501 sold it to her later brother Ulrich of Hardegg, they retained the title of Count of Glatz for themselves and their descendants, until the expiry of Münster Berger trunk line of the Lords of Podiebrad in the male line in 1647.

Albrechts and Salome's daughter Ursula (1498-1545) married in 1517 to Henry Švihovský of Riesenberg ( Jindřich z Švihovský Ryzmberka, † 1551 ).