Alban—­our proto-martyr called. 
  Drayton, Polyolbion, xxiv. [1622].

AL’BERICK OF MORTEMAR, the same as Theodorick the hermit of Engaddi, an exiled nobleman.  He tells king Richard the history of his life, and tries to dissuade him from sending a letter of defiance to the archduke of Austria.—­Sir W. Scott, The Talisman (time, Richard I.).

Al’ berick, the squire of prince Richard, one of the sons of Henry II. of England.—­Sir W. Scott, The Betrothed (time, Henry II.).

ALBERT, commander of the Britannia.  Brave, liberal, and just, softened and refined by domestic ties and superior information.  His ship was dashed against the projecting verge of Cape Colonna, the most southern point of Attica, and he perished in the sea because Rodmond (second in command) grasped one of his legs and could not be shaken off.

  Though trained in boisterous elements, his mind
  Was yet by soft humanity refined;
  Each joy of wedded love at home he knew,
  Abroad, confessed the father of his crew....

  His genius, ever for th’ event prepared,
  Rose with the storm, and all its dangers shared.

Falconer, The Shipwreck, i. 2 (1756).

Albert, father of Gertrude, patriarch and judge of Wyo’ming (called by Campbell Wy’oming).  Both Albert and his daughter were shot by a mixed force of British and Indian troops, led by one Brandt, who made an attack on the settlement, put all the inhabitants to the sword, set fire to the fort, and destroyed all the houses.—­Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming (1809).

Albert, in Goethe’s romance called The Sorrows of Werther, is meant for his friend Kestner.  He is a young German farmer, who married Charlotte Buff (called “Lotte” in the novel), with whom Goethe was in love.  Goethe represents himself under the name of Werther (q. v.).

ALBERT OF GEI’ERSTEIN (Count), brother of Arnold Biederman, and president of the “Secret Tribunal.”  He sometimes appears as a “black priest of St. Paul’s,” and sometimes as the “monk of St. Victoire.”—­Sir W. Scott, Anne of Geierstein (time, Edward IV.).

ALBERTAZ’ZO married Alda, daughter of Otho, duke of Saxony.  His sons were Ugo and Fulco.  From this stem springs the Royal Family of England.—­Ariosto, Orlando Furioso (1516).

ALBIA’ZAR, an Arab chief, who joins the Egyptian armament against the crusaders.

A chief in rapine, not in knighthood bred.  Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, xvii. (1575).

AL’BION.  In legendary history this word is variously accounted for.  One derivation is from Albion, a giant, son of Neptune, its first discoverer, who ruled over the island for forty-four years.