Albert I, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst

Albert I, Prince of Anhalt -Zerbst († 1316 ) was a Askanischer Regent in Anhalt.

Life

Albrecht I was a son of Prince Siegfried I of Anhalt -Zerbst and his wife Catherine of Sweden. He succeeded his father when he was in 1290 preacher monk in the Zerbst national territory, to which also belonged Anhalt- Dessau and Anhalt- Köthen then. Part of the town Zerbst, who was still in the hands of the Margrave of Brandenburg, he received a fief. Prince Albert I was the first Ascanians, who moved into the Köthen Castle in 1295.

Together with Abbot Conrad of Nienburg 1293 he managed the use of hitherto still in use Wendish language in the courts from Anhalt. He took part against Henry the strange ones of Grubenhagen in the siege of the castle Herlingsberg ( 1291 ). After the assassination of King Albrecht I, he was proposed by his brother, Margrave Waldemar of Brandenburg, to no avail as German king. He wrote significant donations, which he made to churches and monasteries, according to a series of documents. He was married twice, with Liutgart of Holstein daughter of Gerhard I and his second wife, Agnes, daughter of the Marquis Conrad of Brandenburg, and died 1316.

His successor was Waldemar I, Prince of Anhalt- Zerbst.