Prince Of Prussia Albrecht 1809

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Prussian colonel general and royalty, as the fifth son and youngest child of King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia and Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. His parents had fled to East Prussia after the occupation of Berlin by Napoleon. Two of Albrecht's elder brothers were Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia from 1840 till 1861, and Wilhelm I, King of Prussia from 1861 to 1888 and German Emperor from 1871 until 1888. In 1819, aged 10, he joined the Prussian Army as a lieutenant and held the rank of a general of cavalry in 1852. He took part in the 1866 Austro-Prussian War as a cavalry corps commander at the battles of Gitschin and Königgrätz. In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 he led a cavalry division at the battles of Wissembourg, Wörth and Sedan. He later joined the forces of his nephew Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia and Friedrich Franz II, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in the campaign against the Armée de la Loire. In The Hague, on 14 September 1830 Albrecht married Princess Marianne, daughter of King Willem I of the Netherlands. The marriage was dissolved on 28 March 1849. They had five children. In Berlin on 13 June 1853, Albrecht married secondly Rosalie Wilhelmine Johanna von Rauch, daughter of Gustav von Rauch, chief of the Prussian General Staff 1812-1813 and Prussian Minister of War 1837-1841. She was created Countess of Hohenau on 28 May 1853. They had two sons. He died on 14 October 1872, aged 63, in Berlin. Link to Wikipedia biography