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See also:ALBERT (1490'1545) , elector and See also:archbishop of See also:Mainz, and archbishop of See also:Magdeburg, was the younger son of See also:John See also:Cicero, elector of See also:Brandenburg, and was See also:born on the 28th of See also:June 1490. Having studied at the university of See also:Frankfort-on-the-See also:Oder, he entered the ecclesiastical profession, and in 1513 became See also:arch-See also:bishop of Magdeburg and See also:administrator of the See also:diocese of See also:Halberstadt. In 1514 he obtained the electorate of Mainz, and in 1518 was made a See also:cardinal. Meanwhile to pay for the See also:pallium of the see of Mainz and to See also:discharge the other expenses of his See also:elevation, Albert had borrowed a large sum of See also:money from the Fuggers, and had obtained permission from See also:Pope See also:Leo X. to conduct the See also:sale of indulgences in his diocese to obtain funds to repay this See also:loan. For this See also:work he procured the services of John See also:Tetzel, and so indirectly exercised a potent See also:influence on the course of the See also:Reformation. When the imperial See also:election of 1519 See also:drew near, the elector's See also:vote was eagerly solicited by the partisans of See also:Charles (afterwards the See also:emperor Charles V.) and by those of See also:Francis I., See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:France, and he appears to have received a large amount of money for the vote which. he See also:cast eventually for Charles. Albert's large and liberal ideas, his friendship with See also:Ulrich von See also:Hutten, and his See also:political ambitions, appear to have raised hopes that he would be won over to the reformed faith; but after the Peasants' See also:War of 1525 he ranged himself definitely among the supporters of Catholicism, and was among the princes who met to See also:concert See also:measures for its See also:defence at See also:Dessau in See also:July 1525. His hostility towards the reformers, however, was not so extreme as that of his See also:brother See also:Joachim I., elector of Brandenburg; and he appears to have exerted himself in the interests of See also:peace, although he was
member of the See also:league of See also:Nuremberg, which was formed in 1538' as a counterpoise to the league of See also:Schmalkalden. The new doctrines nevertheless made considerable progress in his dominions, and he was compelled to See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant religious See also:liberty
to the inhabitants of Magdeburg in return for 500,000 florins. During his latter years indeed he showed more intolerance towards the Protestants, and favoured the teaching of the See also:Jesuits in his dominions. Albert adorned the Stiftskirche at See also:Italic and the See also:cathedral at Mainz in sumptuous See also:fashion, and took as his See also:motto the words Domine, dilexi decorem domus tuae. A generous See also:patron of See also:art and learning, he counted See also:Erasmus among his See also:friends. He died at See also:Aschaffenburg on the 24th of See also:September 1545.
See J. H. Hennes, Albrecht von Brandenburg, Erzbischof von Mainz and Magdeburg (Mainz, 1858) ; J. May, Der'Kurfiirst, Kardinal, and Erzbischof Albrecht II. von Mainz and Magdeburg (See also:Munich, 1865—1875) ; W. Schum, Kardinal Albrecht von Mainz and See also:die Erfurter Kirchenreformation (See also:Halle, 1878); P. Redlich, Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg, and das neue Stift zu Halle (Mainz, 1900).
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