Johann VI. (Oldenburg)

Count Johann VI. von Oldenburg (* 1501 in Oldenburg , † 1548 in Bremen ) was Count of Oldenburg . He was the eldest son of Count Johann V and his wife Anna von Anhalt-Bernburg . His government was shaped by the conflict with his co-ruling younger brothers.

Life

Johann VI. ruled from 1526 together with his younger brothers Georg, Christoph and Anton I. The relationship between the four brothers was strained from the beginning of their common rule. Johann VI. and Georg and their mother Anna remained in the old Catholic faith , while Christoph and Anton I adopted the Protestant faith . In addition, Christoph and Anton I tried to relax the relationship with their East Frisian neighbors through an Oldenburg-East Frisian double wedding, which Johann VI. and Georg on the other hand, because of dynastic reservations against the house of Cirksena , which had only risen to the rank of imperial count in 1464, refused. The relationship with the East Frisian Count House was strained by its claims to the Jever rule and the Oldenburg rule in the Frisian Wesermarsch . Christoph and Anton I could Johann VI. and finally force Georg to reluctantly renounce his government in 1529.

Johann VI. tried to reverse his disempowerment and found support from Duke Heinrich the Younger of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . In 1533 Johann VI. in a contract with a co-government limited to 10 years and reduced in competence. Further attempts to enforce his legal right to participate or to divide power were unsuccessful. In 1542 Johann VI. In a comparison, a financial compensation with simultaneous waiver of co-government. The contemporary sources give no information about Georg.

After his death in Bremen in 1548, Johann VI. in Oldenburg a widow of middle-class origin, whom he probably only married after all government hopes had been given up.

literature

• Johann VI. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 ( online ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann V.	Count of Oldenburg 1526–1542	Georg Christoph Anton I.