ABSTRACT
Albert Achilles was one of the fine flowers of the Hohenzollern stock, an intellectual, artistic, and brilliant Prince. Albert Achilles was such an one, a warrior, a swashbuckler, but on the grand scale. The Frankish Achilles might plunder and burn unfortified villages and fields, but in the decisive fray the Nurembergers struck hardest. The chief among Albert’s many ambitions was to become “Duke of the Franks,” even as Caesar Borgia, his younger contemporary, and a far more ferocious and ruthless arriviste and conquistador even than he, was determined at all costs to be “Duke of Rome.” The Hungarian monarch hounded on all who could be persuaded to make war on Albert to fall upon Brandenburg. The greatest benefit that Albert Achilles Ulysses conferred on his children and descendants was the family enactment which he committed to parchment on his last visit to the Spree.
