Friday, January 1, 2010

Holstein

HOLSTEIN
Duchy of Holstein

"The Duchy of Holstein, as constituted since the dissolution of the German Empire in 1806, is made up of the two ancient counties of Holstein and Stormarn, the lordship of Pinneberg, the county of Ranzau, the Frisian repupblic of Dirmarsh on the North Sea, and the Vendic district of Wagria on the Baltic. It includes likeswise within its territorial limits the ancient Vendic principality of Eutin, now a dependency of the Dukes of Oldenburg...." (Twiss, p. 1)

Titles: Duke of Schleswig, Holstein, Stormarn, Ditmarshes, Lauenburg & Oldenburg

Territorial Development & Dynastic History
1111: Lothair of Saxony, later Emperor Lothair, invested Adolf of Schaumburg (Schauenburg) as Count of Holstein and Stormarn as a fief of Saxony
1261: Division into Holstein-Itzehoe, Holstein-Kiel, Holstein-Pinneberg, Holstein-Plon, Holstein-Rendsburg, Holstein-Segeberg
1386: Acquired Duchy of Schleswig
1459: Line of Counts of Schaumburg extinct in Holstein when Adolf XI died
1460: Dukes of Schleswig & Counts of Holstein
1111: HRE County
1474: HRE Duchy
1474: Merged into Schleswig-Holstein
1582: HRE Council of Princes
1792: In Council of Princes

Rulers of Holstein
1106 - 1110:  Godfrey

Schauenburg family
1110 - 1131: Adolf I
1131 - 1164: Adolf II
1164 - 1225: Adolf III
1225 - 1238: Adolf IV
1239 - 1290: Gerhard I of Holstein-Itzehoe

Holstein-Kiel
1238 - 1263: Johann I
1263 - 1273: Adolf V
1263 - 1316: Johann II
1316 - 1359: Johann III the Mild
1359 - 1390: Adolf VII

Holstein-Segeberg
1273 - 1308: Adolf V
1381 - 1403: Albrecht II

Holstein-Plon
1290 - 1312: Gerhard II
1312 - 1323: Gerhard IV
1323 - 1350: Gerhard V
1350 - 1359: Johann III
1359 - 1390: Adolf VII

Holstein-Schauenburg
1290 - 1315: Adolf VI
1315 - 1354: Adolf VII
1354 - 1370: Adolf VIII
1370 - 1404: Otto I
1404 - 1426: Adolf IX
1426 - 1464: Otto II
1464 - 1474: Adolf X
1474 - 1492: Erich
1492 - 1510: Otto III
1510 - 1526: Antonius
1526 - 1527: Johann IV
1527 - 1531: Jobst I
1531 - 1581: Jobst II
1531 - 1560: Johann V
1533 - 1576: Otto IV
1576 - 1601: Adolf XI
1601 - 1622: Ernst, Prince from 1620
1622 - 1635: Jobst Hermann
1635 - 1640: Otto V

Holstein-Rendsburg
1290 - 1304: Heinrich I
1304 - 1340: Gerhard III
1340 - 1382: Heinrich II
1382 - 1404: Gerhard VI
1390 - 1397: Nicholas
1397 - 1403: Albrecht II
1404 - 1427: Heinrich IV
1427 - 1459: Adolf VIII
1427 - 1433: Gerhard VII

Oldenburg dynasty - Schleswig and Holstein
1459 - 1481: Christian I, Duke from 1474
1481 - 1513: Johan I
1513 - 1523: Christian II
1513 - 1533: Frederik I
1533 - 1559: Christian III

Holstein-Gottorp
1533 - 1586: Adolf
1586 - 1587: Friedrich II
1587 - 1590: Philipp
1590 - 1616: Johann Adolf
1616 - 1659: Friedrich III
1659 - 1695: Christian Albrecht
1695 - 1702: Friedrich IV
1702 - 1739: Karl Friedrich
? - 1726: Christian August

Holstein-Sondenburg-Plon
1559 - 1622: Johann

Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg
1622 - 1627: Alexander

Schleswig-Holstein-Beck
1627 - 1675: August Philip
1675 - 1689: August
1689 - 1719: Friedrich Wilhelm I
1719 - 1728: Friedrich Ludwig
1728 - 1749: Friedrich Wilhelm II
1749 - 1757: Friedrich
1757 - 1774: Karl Ludwig
1774 - 1775: Peter August
1775 - 1816: Karl Friedrich
1816 - 1825: Wilhelm

Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg in 1825
1816 - 1831: Wilhelm
1831 - 1863: Karl
1863 - 1866: Wilhelm
References
Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein
Genealogy of Holstein (Euweb)
Genealogy of Holstein (FMG)
Schleswig-Holstein: Broad History

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