Counts of Holstein and Schauenburg

The Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein were titles of the Holy Roman Empire. The dynastic family came from Schauenburg near Rinteln (district Schaumburg) on the Weser in Germany. Together with its ancestral possessions in Bückeburg and Stadthagen, the family of Schauenburg ruled the County of Schauenburg and Holstein.

Adolf I was the first Count of Schauenberg from 1106 and the second Count of Holstein from 1111. He made an important contribution to the colonisation and Germanisation of the lands north of the Elbe. He was appointed to hold as fiefs Holstein and Stormarn, including Hamburg, by Lothair, Duke of Saxony, in 1111. By this appointment Adolf became the leader of the defence of Germany against the Wagri. Allied with Henry, the prince of the Obotrites, he repeatedly waged war on Wagri and the Rugians. After Henry's death, Adolf remained allied with his sons Canute and Sventepolk, but they were soon dead and Lothair, by then King of Germany, had made Canute Lavard, a Danish prince, Duke of Schleswig. Feeling his authority threatened by the Danish upstart, Adolf attacked his castle of Albergs, captured the garrison, and destroyed its defences. He left his counties intact to his second son, Adolf II, since his eldest, Hartung, had been killed in the Second Battle of Chlumec in 1126. ..... more

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Graf Adolf III of Holstein

  • A1 ~ Adolf I, Graf von Holstein, d:1130, m. Hildewa;
    • B1 ~ Adolf II, Graf von Holstein, d:1164, m. Mechtild von Schwarzburg;
      • C1 ~ Adolf III, Graf von Holstein, lvd:1160/1225, m. Adelheid von Querfurt;
        • D1 ~ Adolf IV, Graf von Holstein, d:1261, m. Heilwig zur Lippe;
          • E1 ~ Graf Gerhard I von Holstein-Itzehoe, lvd:1232/1290, m. Elizabeth von Mecklenburg;
            • F1 ~ Graf Gerhard II von Holstein-Plön, lvd:1254/1312, m. Ingeborg of Sweeden;  ==>  Kings of Sweeden
              • G1 ~ Graf Gerhard IV von Holstein-Plön, m. Anastasia von Schwerin;
            • F2 ~ Graf Heinrich I von Holstein-Rendsburg, lvd:1258/1304, m. Heilwig von Bronckhorst;
              • G1 ~ Graf Gerhard III "der Grosse" von Holstein-Rendsburg, Duke of Schleswig and Jutland. d:1340, m. Sofie von Werle;
                • H1 ~ Graf Heinrich II "der Eiserne", lvd:1320/1384, m. Mechtild zur Lippe;
                  • I1 ~ Graf Gerhard VI, d:1404, m. Katharina von Braunschweig;  ==>  Welf Dynasty

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