Johann I (Holstein-Kiel)

Seal of Johann I from the period 1247–1259

Johann I (* around 1229 ; † April 20, 1263 ) was Count of Holstein-Kiel (1261–1263) from the family of the Schauenburger .

Life

Johann was the eldest son of Count Adolf IV of Schauenburg and Holstein and his wife Heilwig von der Lippe . After his father withdrew to the Kiel monastery he had founded in 1239 , Johann ruled together with his younger brother Gerhard first under regency. He was involved in constant quarrels with his brother and the Bishop of Minden . At the division in 1261 he received Wagrien , Ostholstein and Segeberg and resided in Kiel . Stormarn , Plön and the native land of Schauenburg fell to his brother Gerhard, who resided in Itzehoe . In 1255 the brothers signed a trade agreement with Lübeck . Rendsburg , which had been regained from Denmark , was handed over to Johann by his brother Gerhard and received Segeberg in return . After his death, his sons ruled together under the reign of their uncle, but in 1273 they divided the property into the two lines of Kiel and Segeberg, which were reunited with Kiel after Adolf's death in 1308.

seal

(see fig.) Inscription: S (IGILLUM) * IOH (ANN) IS * COMITIS * STORMARIE * WAGRIE * ET * HOLTSACIE (Seal Johanns Graf von Stormarn Wagrien and Holstein) Middle: COMES SCOVENB (OR) G (Graf von Schauenburg )

progeny

Johann married Elisabeth († 1293/1306) in 1249/50, a daughter of Duke Albrecht I of Saxony , they had six children.

• Elisabeth von Holstein († around 1284) ∞ Count Nikolaus I of Schwerin-Wittenburg († 1323)
• Heilwig (* around 1251; † before 1308) ∞ (1262) Margrave Otto IV of Brandenburg (* around 1238; † 1308/09)
• Adolf V. Count of Holstein-Segeberg (* around 1252; † 1308) ∞ Euphemia of Pomerania († after 1316).
• Johann II. Count of Holstein-Kiel (* 1253; † 1321)
• Agnes († 1286/1287) ∞ Prince Waldemar of Mecklenburg-Rostock (* before 1262; † 1282)
• Albrecht († 1300), provost of the cathedral in Hamburg in 1283

ancestry

Adolf II. (Schauenburg and Holstein) (1128–1164) Count of Schauenburg, Holstein and Stormarn

Adolf III. (Schauenburg and Holstein) (1160–1225) Count of Schauenburg and Holstein

Mechthild von Schwarzburg-Käfernburg

Adolf IV. (Schauenburg and Holstein) (1205–1261) Count of Schauenburg and Holstein

Burchard III. (Querfurt)

Adelheid of Querfurt

Mathilde of equals

Johann I (Holstein-Kiel)

Bernhard II (Lippe)

Hermann II (Lippe)

Heilwig von Are-Hostaden

Heilwig von der Lippe

Simon I. (Tecklenburg)

Oda of Tecklenburg

Oda from Berg-Altena

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

• genealogie-mittelalter.de

predecessor	Office	successor
Adolf IV	Count of Holstein-Kiel 1261–1263	Johann II. (Holstein-Kiel) Adolf V. (Holstein-Segeberg)