Adolf VI. (Holstein-Schauenburg)

Seal of Adolf VI.

Adolf VI. (* 1256 ; † May 13, 1315 ) was a count in Holstein and in the Schaumburg area (then even Schauenburg) in the High Middle Ages.

Domination

He was the third son of Gerhard I von Holstein-Itzehoe and Elisabeth von Mecklenburg . As part of an inheritance division of the Schauenburg counts , he received Holstein-Pinneberg in 1290 and the ancestral county of Schauenburg (later: Schaumburg). He founded the Younger House of Schaumburg here, while the Plön line went back to his brother Gerhard and the Rendsburger line to Heinrich .

Adolf was mostly in the south of the Elbe in his county of Schaumburg. In 1298 he issued the city of Gehrden's letter of freedom . In 1302 he built the moated castle Bückeburg on Hellweg in front of Santforde . The name of this castle was taken from a desert castle near Obernkirchen and first mentioned in 1304.

seal

(see fig.) S (IGILLUM) * ADOLPHI * COMITIS * DE * SCHOWE (N) BORCH / Seal of Adolfs Graf von Schauenburg

family

Since February 14, 1297 he was married to Helene von Sachsen-Lauenburg († 1322), the daughter of Duke Johann I and the Swedish princess Ingeborg Birgersdatter, a granddaughter of Birger Jarl . The couple had the following children:

• Adolf VII (around 1297 - June 5, 1354)

⚭ Hedwig von Schwalenberg

⚭ 1322 Heilwig zur Lippe († August 26, 1364/69)

• Gerhard , Bishop Minden, († 1353)
• Erich (* approx. 1304; † between November 21, 1350 and January 15, 1351), from Pope Johannes XXII. appointed bishop, opposing bishop of Heinrich III. of Braunschweig-Lüneburg in the diocese of Hildesheim
• Ermengard († 1326) ⚭ Otto II. Von Hoya (* 1271; † 1324)
• Elisabeth
• Helene († 1341) ⚭ Günther V. (IX.) Zu Schwarzburg († around 1358)
• Luitgard became a nun
• Mechtild († 1340) ⚭ Konrad von Diepholz († 1379), parents of Konrad III. von Diepholz , Bishop of Osnabrück

literature

• Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen, Elke Imberger, Dieter Lohmeier , Ingwer Momsen (ed.): The princes of the country. Dukes and Counts of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2008, ISBN 978-3-529-02606-5
• Hans Gerhard Risch: The county of Holstein-Pinneberg from its beginnings until 1640 . Hamburg 1986.

Web links

Commons : Adolf VI. (Holstein-Schauenburg)  - Collection of pictures

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website for the 700th anniversary.
2. ↑ General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts, Leipzig, 1842: Johann (Herz. V. Sachsen-Lauenb.) , P. 340
3. ↑ Information on Erich von Schaumburg

predecessor	Office	successor
Gerhard I.	Count of Schauenburg and Holstein 1290–1315	Adolf VII