# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T17:48:19.056Z

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description: "He held the throne while his country became a battlefield. Albert I refused to flee when Germany invaded in 1914, commanded his army from the last free corner of Belgium, and earned a nickname that stuck: the Soldier King."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Albert was born in Brussels on 8 April 1875, the second son of Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders, and came to the throne in 1909 when his uncle Leopold II died. He married Elisabeth of Bavaria and they had three children. Five years into his reign, German forces swept into Belgium and occupied most of the country. Albert stayed, led what remained of the Belgian army, and became the Knight King to a population under siege. When the war ended in 1918, he oversaw Belgium's adoption of the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919 and the years of reconstruction that followed, while also presiding over the Belgian Congo and the League of Nations mandate of Ruanda-Urundi. The last stretch of his rule brought the opening years of the Great Depression. On 17 February 1934, at 58, he died in a mountaineering accident in eastern Belgium, and his son Leopold III took the throne.