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The County of Holstein-Segeberg was a county in the state of Holstein from 1273 to 1308 and a line of the noble family of Schauenburg and Holstein. The only count of Holstein-Segeberg was Adolphus V, nicknamed the Pomeranian, who was born in 1252 and died in 1308.

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After the death of his father, John I, in 1263, his sons, Adolphus V, John II and Albert I (died 1300, who became the cathedral provost (Dompropst) of Hamburg) initially ruled the County of Holstein-Kiel jointly. In 1273 they divided the inheritance, with John II continuing to rule Kiel. Adolphus V ruled Segeberg and thus founded the line of Holstein-Segeberg. [1] When he died in 1308 without male issue, Holstein-Segeberg fell once again to Holstein-Kiel. Adolphus, the younger son of Count John II, who was born in 1281, ruled Holstein-Segeberg from 1308 until he was stabbed to death in 1315.

Count Albert II (1369–1403) of Holstein-Rendsburg, second son of Count Henry II (d 1385), received the castle and Vogtei of Segeberg as his own lordship as a result of the partition division of 9 September 1394; [2] and Kiel through the partition treaty of 28 August 1397.

Counties in Holstein (overview)

Holstein
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)

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References

  1. Gerhard Köbler: Historisches Lexikon der Deutschen Länder: die deutschen Territorien vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Verlag C.H. Beck, 2007, ISBN   978-3-406-54986-1, p. 297.
  2. Primary source: Schleswig-Holsteinische Regesten und Urkunden 6, p. 815 (No. 1148). Secondary source: Habermann, Jan: Spätmittelalterlicher Niederadel im Raum nördlich der Elbe. Norderstedt 2015, p. 312.