Heinrich I (Holstein-Rendsburg)

Seal of Heinrich I from around 1295–1302

Heinrich I von Holstein-Rendsburg (* 1258 , † 1304 ) was the first Count of Holstein-Rendsburg from the house of the Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein .

Life

He was a son of Gerhard I von Holstein-Itzehoe († 1290) and Elisabeth von Mecklenburg († approx. 1280). 1285 he could Waldemar of Schleswig from captivity of the Danish king Erik V. free. After the death of their father, the surviving sons divided the county of Holstein-Itzehoe among themselves. Heinrich was awarded when Rendsburg was divided. He was repeatedly at war with the Dithmarschers .

Shortly before his death, he introduced a customs duty for foreign goods, By the crane . Half of the customs went to Hamburg and the rest in equal parts to Holstein-Pinneberg and Holstein-Rendsburg. After the last Schauenburg line died out in 1640, its share of the customs duty went to the Duchy of Holstein , with the Gottorf settlement of 1768 it fell entirely to Hamburg.

seal

(see fig.) Inscription: S (IGILLUM) * HINRICI * COMITIS * HOLTSATIE * ET * DE * SCOWENB (O) RCH (Seal of Heinrichs Graf von Holstein and von Schauenburg)

family

In 1289 he married Heilwig (1265-after 1324) the daughter of Count Floris von Bronkhorst . The couple had the following children:

• Gerhard (* around 1293; † April 1, 1340) ⚭ Sofie von Werle, daughter of Nikolaus II. Von Werle
• Adelheid († January 1350) ⚭ Erich II of Schleswig (1288-1325)
• Giselbrecht (1290–1345) (counter) bishop of Halberstadt
• Elisabeth (* 1300, before 1340)

⚭ 1315 Duke Johann II of Saxony-Lauenburg (1275–1322)

⚭ 1330 (cancellation 1331) Erik (1307–1331), son of King Christopher II of Denmark

• Ermengard († 1329) ⚭ Count Otto I. von Hoya († 1324)

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

• http://genealogy.euweb.cz/holstein/holstein1.html
• Heinrich I Graf von Holstein-Rendsburg on thepeerage.com , accessed on August 20, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Eduard Wippermann: Brief State History of the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. CA Schwetschke, Halle 1847, p. 61.

predecessor	Office	successor
	Count of Holstein-Rendsburg 1290–1304	Gerhard III. (Holstein-Rendsburg)