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Adolphus VIII, Count of Holstein

Index Adolphus VIII, Count of Holstein

Adolphus XI of Schauenburg (Alef or Alv, Adolf von Schauenburg, Adolf 8.) (1401 – 4 December 1459), as Adolph I Duke of Schleswig (Danish, Sønderjylland, formerly Slesvig), and as Adolph VIII Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, was the mightiest vassal of the Danish realm. [1]

59 relations: Abel, King of Denmark, Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg, Bernhard II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, Bernhard III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, Catherine Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Christian I of Denmark, Christopher I of Denmark, Christopher of Bavaria, Cognatic kinship, Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein, Counts, dukes and grand dukes of Oldenburg, Danish language, Dano-Hanseatic War (1426–35), Denmark, Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg, Dithmarschen, Duke of Schleswig, Emmerich am Rhein, Eric Magnusson (duke), Eric of Pomerania, Eric V of Denmark, Euphemia of Sweden, Fief, Flensburg, Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg, Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, Gerhard VI, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, Gerhard VII, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, Heide, Helvig of Schauenburg, Henry I, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, Henry II, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg, Henry IV, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg, History of Schleswig-Holstein, Hohenzollern Castle, Hohnstein, Holstein, Holstein-Pinneberg, Holstein-Rendsburg, Holy Roman Empire, House of Schaumburg, Ingeborg of Holstein, Ingeborg of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Ingeborg of Norway, Magnus II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Margaret I of Denmark, Margaret Sambiria, Preetz Priory, ..., Queen dowager, Ribe, Riksråd, Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Sophia of Brandenburg-Stendal, Treaty of Ribe, Vadstena Abbey, Vordingborg Castle. Expand index (9 more) »

Abel, King of Denmark

Abel of Denmark (1218 – 29 June 1252) was Duke of Schleswig from 1232 to 1252 and King of Denmark from 1250 until his death in 1252.

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Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Albert (Latin Albertus; – 22 September 1318), called the Fat (pinguis), was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

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Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg

Albert II (Albrecht II) Duke of Mecklenburg (c. 1318 – 18 February 1379) was a feudal lord in Northern Germany on the shores of the Baltic Sea.

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Bernhard II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

Bernhard II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (ca. 1260 – aft. 26 December 1323), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg.

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Bernhard III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg

Bernhard III, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (died 20 August 1348) was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg.

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Catherine Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Catherine Elisabeth of Brunswick-Lüneburg (ca 1367 – after 1423) was Duchess consort of Schleswig and Countess consort of Holstein-Rendsburg.

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Christian I of Denmark

Christian I (February 1426 – 21 May 1481) was a Scandinavian monarch under the Kalmar Union.

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Christopher I of Denmark

Christopher I (Christoffer I) (1219 – 29 May 1259) was King of Denmark between 1252 and 1259.

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Christopher of Bavaria

Christopher of Bavaria (26 February 1416 – 5/6 January 1448) was King of Denmark (1440–48, as Christopher III), Sweden (1441–48) and Norway (1442–48) during the era of the Kalmar Union.

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Cognatic kinship

Cognatic kinship is a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor or ancestress counted through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where relations are traced through both a father and mother.

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Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein

The Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein were titles of the Frankish Empire.

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Counts, dukes and grand dukes of Oldenburg

Shield of the Counts of Oldenburg Shield of the Counts of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst This is a list of the counts, dukes, grand dukes, and prime ministers of Oldenburg.

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Danish language

Danish (dansk, dansk sprog) is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in Denmark and in the region of Southern Schleswig in northern Germany, where it has minority language status.

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Dano-Hanseatic War (1426–35)

The Dano-Hanseatic War from 1426–1435 (as was the Kalmar War with the Hanseatic League) was an armed trade conflict between the Danish dominated Kalmar Union (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) and the German Hanseatic League (Hansa) led by the Free City of Lübeck.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Dietrich, Count of Oldenburg

Dietrich or Theoderic of Oldenburg (c. 1398 – 14 February 1440) was a feudal lord in Northern Germany, holding the counties of Delmenhorst and Oldenburg.

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Dithmarschen

Dithmarschen (Low Saxon pronunciation:, archaic English: Ditmarsh, Ditmarsken, Medieval Latin: Tedmarsgo) is a district in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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Duke of Schleswig

The following list is a list of jarls and dukes, who ruled over Schleswig respectively Southern Jutland (Sønderjylland).

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Emmerich am Rhein

Emmerich am Rhein meaning Emmerich on the Rhine (Low Rhenish and Emmerik) is a town and municipality in the northwest of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

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Eric Magnusson (duke)

Eric Magnusson (1282–1318) was a Swedish prince, Duke of Svealand, Södermanland, Dalsland, Västergötland, Värmland and North Halland and heir to the throne of Sweden.

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Eric of Pomerania

Eric of Pomerania KG (1381 or 1382 – 24 September 1459) was the ruler of the Kalmar Union from 1396 until 1439, succeeding his adoptive mother, Queen Margaret I. He is numbered Eric III as King of Norway (1389–1442), Eric VII as King of Denmark (1396–1439) and Eric XIII as King of Sweden (1396–1434, 1436–39).

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Eric V of Denmark

Eric V Klipping (1249 – 22 November 1286) was King of Denmark (1259–1286) and son of King Christopher I of Denmark.

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Euphemia of Sweden

Euphemia of Sweden (Swedish: Eufemia Eriksdotter; 1317 – 16 June 1370) was a Swedish princess, spouse of Albert II, Duke of Mecklenburg, Duchess consort of Mecklenburg, heiress of Sweden and of Norway, and mother of King Albert of Sweden.

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Fief

A fief (feudum) was the central element of feudalism and consisted of heritable property or rights granted by an overlord to a vassal who held it in fealty (or "in fee") in return for a form of feudal allegiance and service, usually given by the personal ceremonies of homage and fealty.

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Flensburg

Flensburg (Danish, Low Saxon: Flensborg; North Frisian: Flansborj; South Jutlandic: Flensborre) is an independent town (kreisfreie Stadt) in the north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

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Frederick I, Elector of Brandenburg

Frederick (Middle High German: Friderich, Standard German: Friedrich; 21 September 1371 – 20 September 1440) was the last Burgrave of Nuremberg from 1397 to 1427 (as Frederick VI), Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from 1398, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach from 1420, and Elector of Brandenburg (as Frederick I) from 1415 until his death.

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Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg

Gerhard III of Holstein-Rendsburg (– 1 April 1340), sometimes called Gerhard the Great, and in Denmark also known as Count Gert or den kullede greve ("the bald count"), was a German prince who ruled Schauenburg and Holstein-Rendsburg and a large part of Denmark during the interregnum of 1332–40.

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Gerhard VI, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg

Gerhard VI (c. 1367–1404) was the Count of Holstein-Rendsburg from 1382, and Duke of Schleswig as of 1386.

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Gerhard VII, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg

Gerhard VII, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1404 – 24 July 1433 in Emmerich am Rhein) was Count of Holstein-Rendsburg and by claim also Duke of Schleswig, as Gerhard III.

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Heide

Heide is a town in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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Helvig of Schauenburg

Helvig of Schauenburg (Heilwig von Holstein) (1398–1436), also known as Hedwig of Schauenburg, was a duchess of Schleswig and a countess of Holstein from the family of Schauenburg, and ancestor of the Danish Royal houses of Oldenburg and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.

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Henry I, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg

Henry I, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1258–1304) was the first Count of Holstein-Rendsburg.

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Henry II, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg

Count Henry II of Holstein-Rendsburg (nickname Iron Henry; &ndash) was count of Holstein-Rendsburg and pledge lord of Southern Schleswig.

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Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg

Henry II, Lord of Mecklenburg, nicknamed the Lion (after 14 April 1266 – 21 January 1329 in Sternberg) was regent of Mecklenburg from 1287 to 1298, co-regent from 1298 to 1302 and ruled alone again from 1302 to 1329.

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Henry IV, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg

Henry IV, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg (1397 – 28 May 1427) was Count of Holstein-Rendsburg and Duke of Schleswig from 1404 until his death.

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History of Schleswig-Holstein

The history of Schleswig-Holstein consists of the corpus of facts since the pre-history times until the modern establishing of the Schleswig-Holstein state.

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Hohenzollern Castle

Hohenzollern Castle (German) is the ancestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern.

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Hohnstein

Hohnstein is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany.

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Holstein

Holstein (Northern Low Saxon: Holsteen, Holsten, Latin and historical Holsatia) is the region between the rivers Elbe and Eider.

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Holstein-Pinneberg

The County of Holstein-Pinneberg was a small territory which existed from 1290 until 1640, centred around Pinneberg in modern-day Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

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Holstein-Rendsburg

Holstein-Rendsburg is the name of a county that existed from 1290 to 1459, ruled by a line of the Schauenburg family.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire (Sacrum Romanum Imperium; Heiliges Römisches Reich) was a multi-ethnic but mostly German complex of territories in central Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806.

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House of Schaumburg

The House of Schaumburg was a dynasty of German rulers.

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Ingeborg of Holstein

Ingeborg of Holstein (1396 – 14 October 1465), was Abbess of Vadstena Abbey 1447-1452 and 1457-1465.

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Ingeborg of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Ingeborg of Mecklenburg (1343/45http://gw.geneanet.org/wailly?lang.

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Ingeborg of Norway

Ingeborg of Norway (Old Norse Ingibjörg Hákonardóttir, Swedish Ingeborg Håkansdotter, Norwegian Ingebjørg Håkonsdatter; 1301 – 17 June 1361), was a Norwegian princess and by marriage a Swedish royal duchess with a position in the regency governments in Norway (1319–27) and Sweden (1319–26) during the minority of her son, King Magnus of Norway and Sweden.

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Magnus II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Magnus (1324–1373), called Magnus with the Necklace (Magnus Torquatus) or Magnus II, was Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, ruling the Brunswick-Lüneburg principalities of Wolfenbüttel (colloquially also called Brunswick) and, temporarily, Lüneburg.

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Margaret I of Denmark

Margaret I (Margrete Valdemarsdatter, Margrete Valdemarsdatter, Margareta Valdemarsdotter, Margrét Valdimarsdóttir; 15 March 1353 – 28 October 1412) was queen consort of Norway (1363–1380) and Sweden (1363–1364) and later ruler in her own right of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, from which later period there are ambiguities regarding her specific titles.

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Margaret Sambiria

Margaret Sambiria of Pomerania (in Danish: Margrethe Sambiria, Sambirsdatter or Margrethe Sprænghest; c. 1230 – December 1282) was the Queen consort of Denmark by marriage to King Christopher I of Denmark, and regent during the minority of her son, King Eric V of Denmark from 1259 until 1264.

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Preetz Priory

Preetz Priory (Kloster Preetz) is a former German Benedictine nunnery in the town of Preetz, Schleswig-Holstein.

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Queen dowager

A queen dowager, dowager queen or queen mother (compare: princess dowager, dowager princess or princess mother) is a title or status generally held by the widow of a king.

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Ribe

Ribe (Ripen) is a Danish town in south-west Jutland, with a population of 8,168 (1 January 2014).

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Riksråd

Riksrådet (in Norwegian and Swedish), Rigsrådet (in Danish) or (English: The Council of the Realm and The Council of the State – sometimes translated as "Privy Council") is the name of the councils of the Scandinavian countries that ruled the countries together with the kings from late Middle Ages to the 17th century.

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Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg

Rudolf I (– 12 March 1356), a member of the House of Ascania, was Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg from 1298 until his death.

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Schleswig-Holstein

Schleswig-Holstein is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Schleswig.

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Sophia of Brandenburg-Stendal

Sophia of Brandenburg-Stendal (1300–1356) was a daughter of Margrave Henry I (1256–1318) and his wife Agnes of Bavaria (1276–1345).

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Treaty of Ribe

The Treaty of Ribe (Ribe-brevet meaning The Ribe letter; Vertrag von Ripen) was a proclamation at Ribe made by King Christian I of Denmark to a number of Holsatian nobles enabling himself to become Count of Holstein and regain control of Denmark's lost Duchy of Schleswig (Danish: Sønderjylland, i.e. South Jutland).

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Vadstena Abbey

The Abbey of Our Lady and of St.

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Vordingborg Castle

The Vordingborg Castle ruins (Vordingborg Slotsruin) are located in the town of Vordingborg, Denmark and are the town's most famous attraction.

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Adolf VIII of Holstein, Adolf VIII of Schleswig-Holstein, Adolf VIII, Count of Holstein, Adolf of Schauenburg, Adolphus VIII of Holstein, Adolphus XI.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphus_VIII,_Count_of_Holstein

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