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Background. Adolph descended from a branch of the House of Schauenburg, who had for centuries been counts of Holstein, and as such, vassals of the Holy Roman Empire. His great-grandfather Gerhard the Great, having also been a Regent of the Kingdom of Denmark, had received the Duchy of Sønderjylland from the Danish crown as a ...
After Albert's death in 1403 Segeberg reverted to Rendsberg. In 1459, with the death of Adolphus XI (aka VIII), [2] the Rendsburg branch was extinct in the male line and the nobility of Holstein-Rendburg and of Schleswig then assigned the succession to his sister's son King Christian I of Denmark, House of Oldenburg .
RulerRulerBornReignc.1090? Son of Adolf?1106 – 13 November 1130County of Schauenburg (with Holstein ...Regency of Hildewa (1128-1142)Regency of Hildewa (1128-1142)Regency of Hildewa (1128-1142)Regency of Hildewa (1128-1142)c.1128 Son of Adolph I and Hildewa13 November 1130 – 6 July 1164County of Schauenburg (with Holstein)Regency of Matilda of ...Regency of Matilda of ...Regency of Matilda of ...Regency of Matilda of ...In the course of history, the County of Holstein was several times partitioned among the inheriting sons into up to six lines. In 1386 King Oluf II of Denmark and his mother-regent, Queen Margaret I, enfeoffed in Nyborg Gerhard VI, Count of Holstein-Rendsborg and his cognatic successors with the Duchy of Schleswig, which had been in the royal family's hands until 1375.
Adolph VIII; s(HS-02); † 1370; Count of Holstein-Schauenburg from 1354; Left no heirs; HS-04: 1370-1404: Otto I of Holstein-Schauenburg; s(HS-02); * c. 1330; † aft. 06/05 1404; Count of Holstein-Schauenburg from 1370; Mechtilde of Braunschweig-Lüneburg; m 25/06 1368; † c. 1410; d Duke Wilhelm of Lüneburg; children: 1. Adolph IX (HS-05); 2.
Adolf VIII: Holstein-Rendsburg elects the Danish king Christian I to their new count, thereafter is its history identical with Schleswig-Holstein. Holstein-Pinneberg and Schauenburg Line : 1290-1315 1315-1353 1353-1370 1353-1404 1353-1360 1404-1426 1426-1464 1464-1474 1464-1485 1464-1510 1464-1527 1464-1526 1526-1533 1533-1544 1533-1576 1533 ...
Adolphus XI of Schauenburg (Low German: Alef or Alv, German: Adolf von Schauenburg, Danish: Adolf 8. af Holsten-Rendsborg) (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.
Adolph was only three years old when his father was killed in action against the Ditmarsians in the Battle at Hamme near Heide (today's Schleswig-Holstein), on 4 August 1404. Adolph was educated at the court of Frederick I, Margrave of Brandenburg at Hohenzollern Castle. Career. Adolph's elder brother Henry IV succeeded their father
