Editing Albert the Bear (section)

==Cognomen==
[[Image:Bär 148-KA1.JPG|thumb|upright|Foundation of the memorial to Albert at [[Spandau Citadel]].]]
Albert's personal qualities won for him the [[cognomen]] of ''the Bear,'' "not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since," says [[Thomas Carlyle]], who called Albert "a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man."{{sfn|Carlyle|1869|pp=59–61}} He was also called "the Handsome."{{sfn|Carlyle|1869|pp=59–61}}