Adolf I. (Schauenburg and Holstein)

Adolf I of Schauenburg and Holstein (* before 1106; † November 13, 1130 ) was a noble lord of Schauenburg and Count of Holstein and Stormarn.

Life

Adolf I can be identical to Adolf mentioned by the Bishop of Minden in 1096 , but it could also be the father of the same name.

Adolf I probably became noble lord of Schauenburg in 1106 (today Schaumburg near Rinteln on the middle Weser). 1110 he received from the Saxon Duke Lothar von Süpplingenburg as a fief the counties of Holstein and Stormarn , including Hamburg belonged. The Vagrian predecessor of the Siegesburg , which Duke Knud Lavard of South Jutland had built on the summit of the Alberg (the Kalkberg) in what is now Bad Segeberg , was torn down by Adolf in 1130.

With Adolf I, the Schauenburgers came to northern Elbe , where they introduced the first chapter of the German eastward settlement under his son and grandson of the same name in Wagrien.

The rule of Adolf I was on extremely weak feet during his entire reign, as on the one hand he did not have an extensive liege team available and on the other hand the powerful and self-confident popular nobility of the Holstein and Stormarn districts, from which the Overboden two districts stood out, faced him as a local competitor .

Marriage and offspring

With a Hildewa he had at least two sons and two daughters

Hartung († approx. 1126, possibly killed in the battle of Kulm / Chlumec in Bohemia)
Adolf II (* 1128; † 1164), Count of Schauenburg and Holstein
Mechthild (* 1126) ∞ Ludolf I. von Dassel (approx. 1115–1166) Count von Dassel
Adelheid (* 1130)

literature

Oliver Auge, Detlev Kraack (ed.): 900 years of Schauenburger in the north. An inventory. (= Sources and research on the history of Schleswig-Holstein, vol. 121. ) Wachholtz, Kiel a. a. 2015 ISBN 978-3-529-02221-0 .
Karl Jansen: Adolf I, Count of Holstein . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 105 f.
Heinz Maybaum: Adolf I., Count of Holstein. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 77 f. ( Digitized version ).
Gerhard Theuerkauf : Adolf I. In: Franklin Kopitzsch, Dirk Brietzke (Hrsg.): Hamburgische Biographie . tape 1 . Christians, Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7672-1364-8 , pp. 17-18 .

Web links

Count Adolf I., Hamburg's second founder. Wolfgang Morscher, accessed on July 21, 2011 .

Individual evidence

↑ Schauenburg / Schaumburg. In: Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt , Ortwin Pelc (Ed.): Schleswig-Holstein-Lexikon. 2nd, enlarged and improved edition. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2006, ISBN 3-529-02441-4 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Gottfried of Hamburg	Count of Holstein 1111–1130	Adolf II
?	Count of Schauenburg 1106–1130	Adolf II

personal data
SURNAME	Adolf I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Schauenburg and Holstein
DATE OF BIRTH	11th century
DATE OF DEATH	November 13, 1130

[1] Schauenburg / Schaumburg. In: Klaus-Joachim Lorenzen-Schmidt , Ortwin Pelc (Ed.): Schleswig-Holstein-Lexikon. 2nd, enlarged and improved edition. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2006, ISBN 3-529-02441-4 .