County of Holstein-Pinneberg County of Schauenburg and Holstein-Pinneberg | |||||||||
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1290–1640 | |||||||||
Status | Imperial county | ||||||||
Capital | Pinneberg | ||||||||
Common languages | Northern Low Saxon, German | ||||||||
Religion | Rom. Catholic to 1561, then mainly Lutheran, Calvinist from 1601 and Jewish from 1621, esp. in Altona | ||||||||
Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
Counts of Schauenburg | |||||||||
House of Schauenburg | |||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
1290 | |||||||||
• Usurpation in 1640 after the comital male line died out | 1640 | ||||||||
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Today part of | Germany |
The County of Holstein-Pinneberg (German : Grafschaft Holstein-Pinneberg), also known as the County of Schauenburg and Holstein-Pinneberg (German : Grafschaft Schauenburg und Holstein-Pinneberg), was a small territory which existed from 1290 until 1640, centred around Pinneberg in modern-day Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
Holstein-Pinneberg was one of the territories partitioned from the County of Holstein-Itzehoe (the others being Holstein-Rendsburg and Holstein-Plön) following the death of Gerhard I. This resulted in the Pinneberg line of the Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein, who were called Holstein-Pinneberg or Holstein-Schauenburg. The Schauenburgs (later, on the Weser, called the Schaumburgs) ruled over the County of Schaumburg (which became a principality in 1620) and over Holstein-Pinneberg.
In 1375, Prince-Archbishop Albert II of Bremen mortgaged the Haseldorfer Marsh to Adolphus VII. The prince-archbishop of Bremen later failed to redeem the mortgage, and the Haseldorfer Marsh has been part of Holstein ever since. Whereas in 1537 Christian III of Denmark introduced the Reformation in all his four realms, Denmark, Duchy of Holstein, Norway and Schleswig, Holstein-Pinneberg remained Catholic until 1559. After the Schaumburgs died out in 1640 (the other lines in Holstein had already died out by 1459) the County of Schaumburg was divided and the County of Holstein-Pinneberg was absorbed into what was now the Duchy of Holstein (formerly the County of Holstein-Rendsburg). In 1650, the County of Rantzau was created from the northern third of the territory.
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Holstein-Kiel (1261–1390) | Holstein-Itzehoe (1261–1300) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Holstein-Segeberg (1273-1308) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Holstein-Plön (1300–1390) | Holstein-Rendsburg (1300–1459) | Holstein-Pinneberg (1300–1640) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Duchy of Holstein (from 1474) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Imperial County of Rantzau (1650–1726) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The following counts ruled over Schaumburg and Holstein-Pinneberg:
Holstein is the region between the rivers Elbe and Eider. It is the southern half of Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany.
Helvig of Schauenburg (1398–1436) was a duchess of Schleswig and a countess of Holstein from the family of Schauenburg. She was the mother of King Christian I of Denmark and ancestor of the Danish Royal houses of Oldenburg and Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg.
The Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein were titles of the Frankish Empire. The dynastic family came from the County of Schauenburg near Rinteln on the Weser in Germany. Together with its ancestral possessions in Bückeburg and Stadthagen, the House of Schauenburg ruled the County of Schauenburg and the County of Holstein. The comital titles of Holstein were subject to the liege lord, the Dukes of undivided Saxony till 1296, and thereafter the Dukes of Saxe-Lauenburg.
The House of Schaumburg was a dynasty of German rulers. Until c. 1485, it was also known as the House of Schauenburg. Together with its ancestral possession, the County of Schaumburg, the family also ruled the County of Holstein and its partitions Holstein-Itzehoe, Holstein-Kiel, Holstein-Pinneberg, Holstein-Plön, Holstein-Segeberg and Holstein-Rendsburg and through the latter at times also the Duchy of Schleswig.
Ernst of Schaumburg was the first Count of Schauenburg and Holstein-Pinneberg to earn the title of Prince in 1619. However, he died in 1622 without an heir. Schauenburg-Pinneberg had been a Lutheran region since his father Otto IV of Schaumburg had been won over to Martin Luther's teachings. After Ernst's death, a Catholic Count, Jobst Hermann, received a portion of Schauenburg but he also died without children, and Otto V, who was a Calvinist, succeeded Ernst.
Otto IV of Schaumburg was a German nobleman. He was a ruling Count of Schauenburg and of Holstein-Pinneberg. He was a son of Jobst I and his wife Maria of Nassau, a daughter of Count John V of Nassau-Siegen.
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The County of Schaumburg, until ca. 1485 known as Schauenburg, was a state of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the present German state of Lower Saxony. Its territory was more or less congruent with the present district Landkreis Schaumburg.
Holstein-Plön was the name of a county ruled by the House of Schauenburg that ruled in Holstein and Stormarn from 1110/11. The county emerged before 1295 when the County of Holstein-Itzehoe was partitioned after the death of Count Gerhard I of Holstein-Itzehoe into the counties of Holstein-Plön, Holstein-Pinneberg and Holstein-Rendsburg.
Gerhard I, Count of Holstein-Itzehoe was the only count of Holstein-Itzehoe.
Jobst Hermann von Holstein-Schaumburg was a member of the House of Schaumburg.
Adolph VI, Count of Holstein-Schauenburg (1256–1315) was the ruling Count of Holstein-Pinneberg and Schaumburg from 1290 until his death. He was the third son of Gerhard I and Elisabeth of Mecklenburg and was married to Helen of Saxe-Lauenburg, daughter of John I, Duke of Saxony.
Holstein-Rendsburg is the name of a county that existed from 1290 to 1459, ruled by a line of the Schauenburg family.
Jobst I, Count of Holstein-Schauenburg (1483-1531) was a German nobleman. He was the ruling Count of Schauenburg and Holstein-Pinneberg from 1527 until his death. He was a son of John IV and his wife, Cordula of Gemen.