Johann II (Holstein-Kiel)

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Seal of John II from the period 1271–1302

Johann II the One-Eyed (* 1253 , † 1321 ) was Count of Holstein-Kiel .

Life

He was one of the two sons of Count Johann I from the Kiel line of the Schauenburger . After a land partition with his uncle, Count Gerhard I of Holstein-Itzehoe , and his older brother, Count Adolf V. of Holstein-Segeberg , Johann II received the from. Kiel Fjord up to the sources of the Alster and Pinnau reaching Kiel's share in the County of Holstein . Johann II took up his residence in Kiel Castle . After the death of his brother Adolf V, who had remained childless, his territory also fell to him in 1308. He was a hapless ruler.

Panel in the Segeberg Marienkirche depicting the murder of Johann's son Adolf (top right). The scene on the left shows the murderer in front of Pope John XXII.

From his marriage to the Danish king's daughter Margarethe, Johann had two sons. Both perished under unexplained circumstances: Christoph died in 1313 by falling out of the window of one of the count's castles. Two years later, Adolf was killed in bed by the castle captain Hartwig Reventlow at the Siegesburg . The murderer got off lightly: He made a pilgrimage to the Pope in Avignon and received absolution. Allegedly Adolf raped his daughter and killed one of his brothers. It is more likely that Count Gerhard III. von Holstein-Rendsburg was behind the deaths. In any case, Johann's great-nephews, Count Gerhard III. of Holstein-Rendsburg and Johann III. von Holstein-Plön , soon after the unnatural death of Johann's two sons, the territories of the Kiel line. Johann II was deposed in 1316 and lived on the income from the city of Kiel and its vicinity until his death in 1321. But in 1320 he still granted Henricus de Culmine the privilege of founding a school for scholars in Kiel .

He owed his nickname to an unfortunate chicken-bone litter from his court jester, which resulted in the loss of vision of an unintentionally struck eye.

Marriages and offspring

Johann II was married to Margaret of Denmark, a daughter of King Christoph I , and had two sons with her:

  • Christoph († 1313)
  • Adolf († 1315)

seal

(see fig.) Inscription S (IGILLUM) * IOHANNIS * COMITIS * HOLTZATIE (Seal of Johanns Graf von Holstein)

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.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Contributions to the explanation of the civil churches and scholarly history of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein (edited by Johann Friedrich Moodt.) Hamburg, Christ. Herold 1744-1745, pp. 40-53
predecessor Office successor
Johann I (Holstein-Kiel) Count of Holstein-Kiel
1263-1316 		Johann III. (Holstein-Kiel)
personal data
SURNAME Johann II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES the one-eyed
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Holstein-Kiel
DATE OF BIRTH 1253
DATE OF DEATH 1321
Place of death unsure: Kiel