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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 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 discharge the other expenses of his See also: elevation, See also: 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 sale of indulgences in his diocese to obtain funds to repay this loan
.
For this See also: work he procured the services of John See also: Tetzel, and so indirectly exercised a potent influence on the course of the See also: Reformation
.
When the imperial 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 emperor Charles V.) and by those of
See also: Francis I., See also: king of
See also: France, and he appears to have received a large amount of money for the vote which. he cast eventually for Charles
.
Albert's large and liberal ideas, his friendship with See also: Ulrich von 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' War of 1525 he ranged himself definitely among the supporters of Catholicism, and was among the princes who met to concert See also: measures for its 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 religious 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 fashion, and took as his 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
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H
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Hennes, Albrecht von Brandenburg, Erzbischof von Mainz and Magdeburg (Mainz, 1858) ; J
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May, Der'Kurfiirst, Kardinal, and Erzbischof Albrecht II. von Mainz and Magdeburg (See also: Munich, 1865—1875) ; W
.
Schum, Kardinal Albrecht von Mainz and die Erfurter Kirchenreformation (See also: Halle, 1878); P
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Redlich, Kardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg, and das neue Stift zu Halle (Mainz, 1900)
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