Albert of Brandenburg was a German cardinal, elector, Archbishop of Mainz from 1514 to 1545, and Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1513 to 1545.
Portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1526
Cardinal Albert, Archbishop of Magdeburg and Mainz, by Albrecht Dürer
Cardinal Albert, Archbishop of Mainz, as Saint Jerome while studying, by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1526
Meeting of Saint Erasmus of Formiae and Saint Maurice, by Matthias Grünewald, between 1517 and 1523. Grünewald used Albert of Mainz, who commissioned the painting, as the model for St. Erasmus (left).
The Elector of Mainz was one of the seven Prince-electors of the Holy Roman Empire. As both the Archbishop of Mainz and the ruling prince of the Electorate of Mainz, the Elector of Mainz held a powerful position during the Middle Ages. The Archbishop-Elector was president of the electoral college, archchancellor of the empire, and the Primate of Germany as the papal legate north of the Alps, until the dissolution of the empire in 1806.
Albert, Cardinal Elector of Mainz at the foot of the Cross
Lothar Franz Schönborn, Elector of Mainz (1695-1729)
Old boundary stone showing the Wheel of Mainz (Mainzer Rad), the coat of arms of the Electorate
