Battle of Mölln
| date | January 1225 |
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| place | near Mölln |
| output | Victory of the German princes |
| consequences | Albrecht loses Holstein to Adolf von Schauenburg |
| Peace treaty | 17th November 1225 |
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Gebhard von Bremen |
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| Troop strength | |
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In the Battle of Mölln in January 1225 (exact date unknown) Albrecht II of Orlamünde , the Danish governor of northern Albingia , was defeated by the army of a German coalition of princes.
prehistory
The Danish King in Holstein
After Henry the Lion was deposed by Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa in 1180 , the Danish influence in northern Albingia grew. In 1201 the Danish King Waldemar II conquered the country and drove out Count Adolf III. von Schauenburg and Holstein and in 1202 he gave his nephew, the Ascan Albrecht von Orlamünde, the counties of Holstein , Stormarn , Wagrien and Ratzeburg . The German King Otto IV tried to recapture Holstein, but this failed. Instead, Albrecht also conquered Stade in 1216 .
The king in captivity
In 1223 King Waldemar was captured by Count Heinrich von Schwerin on the Baltic island of Lyø and his nephew Albrecht was appointed imperial administrator by the Danish nobility .
Negotiation and agreement
Negotiations began for the release of the king, which led to the Dannenberg Agreement on July 4, 1224 : Heinrich von Schwerin received 40,000 pounds of silver from the Danish king, plus 12,000 pounds from the empire and the lordships of Boizenburg and Schwerin . Count Albrecht was to receive his remaining dominions, which he had received as a fief from the Danish king, from the kingdom as a fief.
Revolt of the discontented
Some north German princes were dissatisfied with the outcome of the negotiations. On one side the troops of Archbishop Gebhard von Bremen and Adolf IV von Schauenburg, the son of the expelled Count von Holstein, approached Albrecht's position, on the other the army of Heinrich I von Schwerin and Borwin von Werle. After Itzehoe was taken , many of the great Holstein members of Waldemar and Albrecht fell away and supported Adolf IV. Adolf IV tried unsuccessfully to maintain his power by confirming rights to the citizens of Hamburg .
The battle
On January 11, 1225, Albrecht met with numerous greats in Segeberg and marched with his Guelph cousin Otto von Lüneburg against Heinrich von Schwerin, the ally of Adolf IV von Holstein.
Probably in the second half of January 1225 the two armies met at Mölln , southwest of Ratzeburg. The battle, which was fought with considerable severity on both sides, lasted until dusk and demanded a high toll in blood. Heinrich von Schwerin won, Albrecht was captured, Otto von Lüneburg was able to flee. On November 17, 1225, the peace treaty was concluded in which Albrecht renounced Holstein in favor of Adolf von Schauenburg.