Albrecht II (Holstein)

Seal of Albrecht II from around 1402

Albrecht II of Holstein (* approx. 1369, † September 28, 1403 buried in Dithmarschen in Itzehoe ), son of Count Heinrich II of Holstein-Rendsburg and Ingeborg von Mecklenburg , was there from the death of his father in 1384/85 to 1394 Co- Count of Holstein-Rendsburg and 1394-1397 Count of Holstein-Segeberg (treaty of October 9, 1394) and from 1397 Count of Holstein-Kiel (treaty of August 28, 1397).

After the father's death, his uncle Count Nikolaus coordinated the cooperation between the Schauenburgers as senior count . After his death on August 28, 1397, the counties Holstein and Stormarn between Albrecht II and Heinrich III. as well as their older brother Gerhard shared. Albrecht II tried in vain to split the Danish flag fiefdom of Schleswig , which Gerhard was inherited from the Danish King Oluf III. also . Olav II had received; but failed because of the Danish legal requirements.

A raid by his father-in-law, Duke Erich IV of Saxony-Lauenburg, in Dithmarschen gave rise to the feud between the Counts of Holstein-Rendsburg and the Dithmarschen, which lasted between 1402 and 1404. The background to this dispute is the decades-long attempts by the Counts of Holstein, who belong to the Archbishopric of Bremen but are largely independent of secular rule, to subjugate farming communities. Since Duke Erich had withdrawn from Albrecht's sphere of influence after the feud and plundering campaign, the Dithmarschers accused the Count of being a fellow scientist. Albrecht cleared himself of the same allegations by taking an oath of allegiance to his brothers. Thereupon allegedly urged by low-nobility confidants and councilors, the counts jointly began the feud against the Dithmarscher; The most energetic feuding man was Albrecht.

In the course of this feud, Count Albrecht had an accident during an evasive maneuver on the Norderhamme and died as a result of a horse fall on September 28, 1403.

Albrecht was married to Agnes († before 1415), daughter of Duke Erich IV of Saxony-Lauenburg († 1412), and Sophie of Braunschweig-Lüneburg († 1416). There were no children from either marriage.

literature

• Volquart Pauls (founder), Olaf Klose (ed.): History of Schleswig-Holstein. Volume 4, part 2: Erich Hoffmann: Late Middle Ages and Reformation times. New edition. Wachholtz, Neumünster 1990, ISBN 3-529-02404-X .
• Georg Waitz : Schleswig-Holstein's history. In three books. First volume: first book. Dieterich et al., Göttingen 1851.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Detlev Kraack: The early Schauenburgers as Counts of Holstein and Stormarn (12th-14th centuries). In: Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen, Elke Imberger, Dieter Lohmeier , Ingwer Momsen (eds.): The princes of the country. Dukes and Counts of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. Wachholtz, Neumünster 2008, ISBN 978-3-529-02606-5 , pp. 28–51, here: p. 51 (family table 2: The descendants of Heinrich the Iron).
2. ^ Georg Waitz: Schleswig-Holstein's history. In three books. First volume: first book. Dieterich et al., Göttingen 1851, pp. 290-291.

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich II. And Nicholas	Count of Holstein-Rendsburg 1381–1397	Gerhard VI.
- Segeberg (Stormarn) was separated from Rendsburg	Count of Holstein-Segeberg 1397–1403	- Segeberg fell to Rendsburg under Gerhard VI. back