Editing Albert the Bear (section)

==Marriage and children==
Albert was married in 1124 to [[Sophie of Winzenburg]] (died 25 March 1160) and they had the following children:
# [[Otto I, Margrave of Brandenburg]] (1126/1128–7 March 1184){{sfn|Lyon|2013|p=241}}
# Count Hermann I of Orlamünde (died 1176),{{sfn|Lyon|2013|p=241}} father of [[Siegfried III, Count of Weimar-Orlamünde]]{{sfn|Mielzarek|2020|p=320}}
# [[Siegfried, Count of Anhalt|Siegfried]] (died 24 October 1184), [[Prince-Bishopric of Brandenburg|Bishop of Brandenburg]] from 1173 to 1180, [[Archbishop of Bremen|Prince-Archbishop of Bremen]], the first ranked prince, from 1180 to 1184{{sfn|Lyon|2013|p=241}}
# Heinrich (died after 1185), a canon in [[Magdeburg]]{{sfn|Mielzarek|2020|p=320}}
# Count Albert of [[Ballenstedt]]{{sfn|Mielzarek|2020|p=321}} (died after 6 December 1172){{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
# Count Dietrich of [[Werben (Elbe)|Werben]] (died after 5 September 1183){{sfn|Lyon|2013|p=241}}
# Count [[Bernhard, Count of Anhalt|Bernhard of Anhalt]] (1138/1142{{sfn|Mielzarek|2020|p=293}}–9 February 1212), [[Duke of Saxony]] from 1180 to 1212 as Bernard III{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}
# [[Hedwig of Brandenburg|Hedwig]] (d. 1203), married to [[Otto II, Margrave of Meissen]]{{sfn|Lyon|2013|p=241}}
# Gertrude, married in {{Circa|1153}}{{efn|Mielzarek dates the marriage between 1140 and 1156 with 1153 as the most likely candidate{{sfn|Mielzarek|2020|p=276}}}} to Duke [[Děpold I of Jamnitz|Děpold of Moravia]]{{sfn|Mielzarek|2020|pp=275-276}}
# Unknown daughter,{{efn|Mielzarek suggests that this daughter is identical to the one that married Děpold of Moravia and that the record of "Wladizlaus dux" marrying said daughter is a mistake.{{sfn|Mielzarek|2020|pp=279-281}}}} married {{Circa|1153}} to Vladislav of Olomouc, the eldest son of [[Soběslav I, Duke of Bohemia]]{{sfn|Mielzarek|2020|pp=277-278}}
# Adelheid (died before 1162), a nun in [[Lamspringe]]{{sfn|Mielzarek|2020|p=274}}
# Unknown daughter,{{efn|Mielzarek suggests that she might have been the same daughter as Adelheid if she became a nun after her husband's death in 1148 or 1149.{{sfn|Mielzarek|2020|p=274}}}} married before 1146 Otto the Younger, son of [[Otto I, Count of Salm|Otto of Salm]]{{sfn|Mielzarek|2020|pp=274-275}}
# Sybille (died {{Circa|1170}}), Abbess of [[Quedlinburg Abbey|Quedlinburg]]{{citation needed|date=April 2024}}