Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel
Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel ( – between 19 November and 4 December 1300) was a Margrave of Brandenburg. He was a member of the Brandenburg-Salzwedel branch of the House of Ascania, which existed from 1266 to 1317. He was a son of Otto III and his wife, Beatrice (or ) of Bohemia. As a son of Otto, he was entitled to use the title of Margrave and he did sign some official documents, but he was never more than a co-ruler. The real power was wielded by his cousin Otto IV "with the  arrow". Albert III administered the Lordship of Stargard, which Brandenburg had acquired from Pomerania in 1236. Albert III was from 1284 the sole ruler of Stargard and Lychen. After his sons Otto and John died (around 1299), Albert III sold Stargard to his son-in-law Henry II of Mecklenburg. The 1304 Treaty of Vietmannsdorf confirmed Henry II as Lord a Stargard and enshrined that it was held as a fief from Brandenburg. In 1299, a year before his death, he founded the Cistercian monastery ("Gate to Heaven") in Lychen. Albert III died on 3 December 1300 and was initially  buried at Lehnin Abbey. In 1309, his body was transferred to the "Coeli Porta" monastery. It was subsequently lost. Marriage and issue. Albert III married in 1268 to Matilda (d. 1300), a daughter of King Christopher I of Denmark. They had the following children: